AMRITSAR - Seeking UN intervention, Dal Khalsa chief H S Dhami said all attempts to get justice within the legal framework of the Indian system for the victims of Nov 1984 carnage have failed.
He was speaking at a protest sit-in organized by his partys youth wing the Sikh Youth of Punjab to voice their anger against the mass killings of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere in Nov 1984.
The gathering passed a resolution urging the United Nations to intervene as the Indian state has bitterly failed to deliver justice even after 27 years of the tragic episode. The organizers said the copy of the memo will be sent to Delhi and Geneva UN offices.
Paying tributes to thousands of innocents that were killed in the capital of the country, the activists performed ardas at Akal Takht. Addressing the gathering outside Information office of the SGPC, Mr Dhami said the tragic incidents of 1984 marked a watershed in Indo-Sikh relations. The pogrom against the Sikhs in November 1984 in Delhi and more than 80 towns and cities wherein more than 4,000 Sikhs were killed by Hindu frenzied mobs continues to haunt the Sikhs.
All possible forums of redress available in India have been exhausted by the victim families, civil liberties organizations and human rights lawyers. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the diplomatic corps of many countries have urged India to act in the interest of justice, but nothing has been done.
He said Sikhs continue to face slavery under a different dispensation. The Sikhs as such have not yet seen the much promised glow of freedom. Rather they are still reeling under the jackboots of brown imperialists. We are facing genocide in all its raw forms at the hands of the Indian state agencies since India gained its freedom". He said the fight against the slavery would continue till Sikhs get independence. He thanked Hurriyat leader Syed Geelani for expressing solidarity with the victims of genocidal attack.
Thereafter demonstrators marched towards the Hall Gate, where a two hour sit-in was organized.
The spirited gathering shouted slogans condemning the Indian state as well as Congress for engineering the mass killings of Sikhs 27 years ago. A large size banner of Sonia Gandhi with eyes closed and Dr Manmohan Singh with lips sealed were displayed on which it was written 10,000 Sikhs killed, 10 Commissions were formed and 27 years have passed, but justice is still a far cry.
A large number of young boys led by Ranbir Singh and Tarjinder Singh Sohal were carrying black flags to mark their protest. To convey their message they were holding placards. Why Anna Hazare is silent on Nov Sikh massacre, reads one banner.
Dal Khalsa head H S Dhami who led the protest march, said Sikhs in Punjab, India and the Diaspora have cried hoarse for the last 27 years, that such gross injustice should shame the rulers of the country, but to no avail.
Referring to his so-called fight against the corruption, Dhami criticized the stoic silence of Anna Hazare on the sufferings of minorities in the country. Why Annas crusade is only focused on corruption and not against genocide of politics being played by both Congress and BJP since last few years, said Dhami.
He was speaking at a protest sit-in organized by his partys youth wing the Sikh Youth of Punjab to voice their anger against the mass killings of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere in Nov 1984.
The gathering passed a resolution urging the United Nations to intervene as the Indian state has bitterly failed to deliver justice even after 27 years of the tragic episode. The organizers said the copy of the memo will be sent to Delhi and Geneva UN offices.
Paying tributes to thousands of innocents that were killed in the capital of the country, the activists performed ardas at Akal Takht. Addressing the gathering outside Information office of the SGPC, Mr Dhami said the tragic incidents of 1984 marked a watershed in Indo-Sikh relations. The pogrom against the Sikhs in November 1984 in Delhi and more than 80 towns and cities wherein more than 4,000 Sikhs were killed by Hindu frenzied mobs continues to haunt the Sikhs.
All possible forums of redress available in India have been exhausted by the victim families, civil liberties organizations and human rights lawyers. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the diplomatic corps of many countries have urged India to act in the interest of justice, but nothing has been done.
He said Sikhs continue to face slavery under a different dispensation. The Sikhs as such have not yet seen the much promised glow of freedom. Rather they are still reeling under the jackboots of brown imperialists. We are facing genocide in all its raw forms at the hands of the Indian state agencies since India gained its freedom". He said the fight against the slavery would continue till Sikhs get independence. He thanked Hurriyat leader Syed Geelani for expressing solidarity with the victims of genocidal attack.
Thereafter demonstrators marched towards the Hall Gate, where a two hour sit-in was organized.
The spirited gathering shouted slogans condemning the Indian state as well as Congress for engineering the mass killings of Sikhs 27 years ago. A large size banner of Sonia Gandhi with eyes closed and Dr Manmohan Singh with lips sealed were displayed on which it was written 10,000 Sikhs killed, 10 Commissions were formed and 27 years have passed, but justice is still a far cry.
A large number of young boys led by Ranbir Singh and Tarjinder Singh Sohal were carrying black flags to mark their protest. To convey their message they were holding placards. Why Anna Hazare is silent on Nov Sikh massacre, reads one banner.
Dal Khalsa head H S Dhami who led the protest march, said Sikhs in Punjab, India and the Diaspora have cried hoarse for the last 27 years, that such gross injustice should shame the rulers of the country, but to no avail.
Referring to his so-called fight against the corruption, Dhami criticized the stoic silence of Anna Hazare on the sufferings of minorities in the country. Why Annas crusade is only focused on corruption and not against genocide of politics being played by both Congress and BJP since last few years, said Dhami.
