Wednesday, December 29, 2004
SIGN ME!!!
http://www.petitiononline.com/TruthPet/petition.html
This is a petition everyone should sign.
"We, humanists, human rights activists, majority of Indian population and citizens of this world call on your Excellency for a "Commission of Truth and Justice” under the auspices of the UN to comprehensively investigate the mass murders of Indian Sikhs in 1984 and label it as genocide as defined in the “Genocide Convention and the relevant international law".
The Golden Temple at Amritsar is the holiest of Sikh Shrines. In 1984, the ruling Congress party of Indian government attacked it, killing thousands of innocent children, women and old men who were pilgrims in the temple. Major portions of the complex were destroyed.
The Indian government in addition to the attack on this most important temple, also simultaneously attacked 31 other Sikh temples throughout the State of Punjab.
In November 1984, thousands of Sikhs were killed, or burnt alive in front of their families by the roving mobs of Congress party workers with the connivance of leaders of Congress Party, which ruled India. Those murders were pre-planned and carried out systematically in the Indian Capital, Delhi. Indian Government owned and run television was used to broadcast inflammatory slogans against Sikhs before the massacre happened. In one of the saddest chapters in the history of humanity, innocent Sikhs were doused with petrol and burnt alive. Rajiv Gandhi, the newly appointed Prime Minister justified these killings as expected occurrences when a significant event takes place..."
This is a petition everyone should sign.
"We, humanists, human rights activists, majority of Indian population and citizens of this world call on your Excellency for a "Commission of Truth and Justice” under the auspices of the UN to comprehensively investigate the mass murders of Indian Sikhs in 1984 and label it as genocide as defined in the “Genocide Convention and the relevant international law".
The Golden Temple at Amritsar is the holiest of Sikh Shrines. In 1984, the ruling Congress party of Indian government attacked it, killing thousands of innocent children, women and old men who were pilgrims in the temple. Major portions of the complex were destroyed.
The Indian government in addition to the attack on this most important temple, also simultaneously attacked 31 other Sikh temples throughout the State of Punjab.
In November 1984, thousands of Sikhs were killed, or burnt alive in front of their families by the roving mobs of Congress party workers with the connivance of leaders of Congress Party, which ruled India. Those murders were pre-planned and carried out systematically in the Indian Capital, Delhi. Indian Government owned and run television was used to broadcast inflammatory slogans against Sikhs before the massacre happened. In one of the saddest chapters in the history of humanity, innocent Sikhs were doused with petrol and burnt alive. Rajiv Gandhi, the newly appointed Prime Minister justified these killings as expected occurrences when a significant event takes place..."
