http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=97730&Itemid=2LONDON, March 04 (APP)-The international Sikh community has ridiculed Indian Home Minister P.Chidambaram’s call for Sikhs to “shun the demand for Khalistan”.Chidambaram made the statement during his visit to Indian Punjab last week, outlining his terms for ending India’s infamous “blacklisting” of Sikhs who have been denied entry to India due to their support for the creation of a sovereign Sikh state in the Sikh homeland.
Leading Diaspora-based Sikh organisations have flatly rejected his anti-democratic means of attacking the Sikh right of self-determination and pointed out that Chidambaram is himself on a blacklist of those the Sikhs will put before a war crimes tribunal.
According to a media release issued here Thursday on behalf of the Sikh nationalist groups who have suggested that Chidambaram avoids making further foolish interventions in Punjab.
They instead call on the UN to intervene in the Punjab scenario, along with Kashmir, Nagaland and elsewhere in Indian-occupied territory, in order to resolve these intractable conflicts.
The Sikh nationalist organisations have unequivocally told the Indian government that they will pursue, in accordance with international law, their struggle for independence until Khalistan is liberated.
They said that no true Sikh will ever compromise on their national birthright, which is irrevocably part of Sikh aspirations and which is supported by the right of self-determination. India can keep its blacklist they said, as it served only to expose its unwillingness to allow democratic politics to succeed in Punjab.
They warned that the Sikhs will in fact maintain international pressure to pursue their own blacklist of Indian politicians and security personnel. They plan to bring those on the list to justice before an international criminal court, to answer for the genocide and other crimes against humanity perpetrated against the Sikhs over recent decades.
They pointed out that Chidambaram himself ironically features on that list, due to his involvement with the Rajiv Gandhi Government under which some 20,000 Sikhs were massacred in Delhi in just three days in November 1984. None of those who led or directed the murderous mobs during that genocide have been punished by the Indian judicial system to date.
The statement was issued on behalf of Amrik Singh Sahota, Council of Khalistan, Amrik Singh Gill, Sikh Federation,UK and Manmohan Singh Khalsa of Dal Khalsa.
Topic: Indian Home Minister on Sikhs blacklist