WSO In touch June 1994
| Creator | World SIkh Organization of Canada |
| First Sentence | J WSO ਦੇਗ ਤੇਗ ਫਤਹਿ ਪੰਥ ਕੀ ਜੀਤ A Newsletter of the World Sikh Organization Punjab : A decade ust as the Jallianwalla Bagh mas sacre in Amritsar in 1919 marked a turning point in Indo - British re- lations during British rule in India , so too will history record the massacre and destruction at the Golden Temple in Amritsar and 38 other gurdwaras in June of 1984 by the Indian army as a turning point in Indian - Sikh relations . Perhaps even more astonishing than the attack itself , however , was the extent of the carnage and the decade of state spon- sored violence and repression that was to follow . Over ten thousand Sikhs were killed by the army in just that one inci- dent in June . In a separate incident in October of 1984 , over five thousand Sikhs were massacred in staged riots in Delhi led by activists of the ruling INSIDE WSO Activities A review of recent meet- ings with the government with respect to refugee and immigration policies . Page 2,3 Congress ( I ) Party and aided by the po- lice , an event that was well - documented by civil rights organizations but saw no individuals brought to trial or justice . In Punjab , 10 years of brutal police re- pression has left the people scarred and stunned into silence . Indeed , the civil liberties group Citizens for Democracy wrote in a 1986 report that " those who suffered and faced gallows during the freedom struggle in Punjab resisting British repression could never have im- agined that Punjab would have to face again the same kind of repressive laws , even more drastic , in free India , " and that these laws " have given a free hand to the police and other para - military forces to torture and harass the simple village folks for ulterior purposes . " The report was banned in India . A decade has passed and very little has changed . Punjab still bleeds profusely even while the Government of India has tried its best to hide its legacy from in- ternational eyes . Punjab , it says , has returned to normalcy . Only a month ago , Amnesty International testified before the US Congress ( April 1994 ) that there is still widespread torture and killing by security forces in India , and that " the brutality and killings in Jammu and Kashmir and in Punjab represent one Legion Issue Response to the Legion's de- cision to restrict the wearing of the Dastar in Legion halls . Page 4 Akali Unity / Some comments recent unification the various Akali in touch later June 1994 No. 1 of the great human rights tragedies of our time . " Two weeks ago , Human Rights Watch / Asia and Physicians for Human Rights also documented the current situation in Punjab , in a report titled " Dead Si- lence : The Legacy of Abuses in Pun- jab " ( May 1994 ) . They write , " the In- dian government's counterinsurgency campaign has left a legacy of a brutal police force whose resort to murder and torture has been sanctioned by the state as an acceptable means of combatting political violence , " and that the Punjab police routinely " disappeared " persons they had in custody and tortured detain- ees with beatings , electric shock and other techniques . A decade later Punjab still seethes . Normalcy indeed . Disunity concerning ਪਿਛੋਕੜ ਤੇ ਝਾਤ efforts by ਵਿਸ਼ਵ ਸਿੱਖ ਸੰਸਥਾ ਦਾ groups . ਸੰਖੇਪ ਇਤਹਾਸ Page 4 4x4 Page 5 , 6 |
| Published | June 1994 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 8 |
| Copies | 1 |
| Tags | Sikh History WSO World Sikh Organization |
| Collection | Community Texts |
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