Proof That Torture and Brutality in Punjab Today Hasn’t Changed From The 80s

Indian State Brutality—Thorough investigative journalists from New York, USA, have published a news article on the BuzzFeed online news site, revealing startling evidence of systematic state brutality against Sikhs today in India.

In a narrative that reads like an event straight from the turbulent last few decades of Punjab, the trials and tribulations of a Sikh asylum seeker in America, having suffered at the hands of the Punjab Police, provides a harrowing account of events having transpired just within the last five or six years.

The article itself appears to want to highlight a current tidal shift in U.S. policy towards an apparent wave of Sikh immigrants making illegal entry into USA.

The opening paragraph minces no words as it describes the country’s approach, “The U.S. government has moved quietly and aggressively to prevent undocumented Indians from entering the United States, many of whom are Sikhs fleeing political repression or economic collapse at home.”

Buta Singh
Buta Singh

The article goes on to highlight the case of Buta Singh, a young Sikh forced to flee after regular systematic harassment of him and his family in India. The underlying reason for his treatment was simply that he had participated in political rallies which sought to raise the people’s voice against the government for allowing farmers in Punjab to have their livelihoods reduced to shatters due to unfair policy directed towards Punjab and it’s people.

The very nature of a Sikh transforms a person into a bold, unfearing advocate of the truth, whether for oneself or, more importantly, others. Regardless of what perils may follow in doing so, a Sikh who lives in fear of God alone, and His Will, and the universal brotherhood of all man, stops at nothing when needing to put himself on the line when unjust or tyrannical forces may rear their ugly heads. This has always been the thorn in the side of one of the world’s most corrupt ‘democracies’.

Due to the very controlled and manipulative media of India, many, including Sikhs, continue to live in a false bubble of belief that the iron-hand of state brutality was a thing of the past. For outspoken Sikhs, however, a wake-up call to the India’s pattern of response to those who dare to go ‘against the machine’ becomes, too soon, a harsh reality.

The recent case of a Dalit (so-called low caste) student committing suicide due to the pressures of being outspoken just at university has led to a nationwide outcry. Showing that state atrocities in Punjab are routinely meted out throughout India, when the state wishes to assert it’s stronghold over the people.

Journalists David Noriega and John Templon sat and met with the imprisoned Sikh asylum seekers to reveal their story and provided an eye opening account of the plight of many Sikhs today.

 

9 COMMENTS

  1. Certainly the Indians are guilty of GENOCIDE of Sikh people .
    How ever the Regime which did it is equally culpable .
    We will certainly get Justice and if not then its equivalent ( Resurrection) for it.

  2. Indian Law is all a copy of the British Empire laws.
    Rowlat act ,TADA and Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act are the children of the EMPIRES Laws .
    State takes primacy over individual rights in a Imperialistic state.
    We need to relook at our Laws and constitution by wise ,Knowledgeable and intelligent Law Makers .

    • You are constantly trying to airbrush Indian guilt. Why don’t you just use photoshop to remove all those images of Indian men beating and burnings Sikhs in the photographs and video footage and replace them with white western faces and be done with it.

  3. TADA law and Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act are derived form the Laws enshrined in the Constitution of India .

    The constitution of India is itself derived from the British Empire Constitution where
    Primacy of State exists over rights of Individuals.

    • Sikhs prominently fought against draconian British Empire laws (Rowlat Act etc) and agitated for justice with the Anandpur Sahib Resolution so in essence you are saying their fellow Indians are too stupid to think for themselves and slavishly adopt immoral ways of thinking? You are making an argument ironically as a RSS Hunduvta supporter then that Indians need to be governed by others as they cannot instinctively distinguish between right and wrong and the Sikhs should govern themselves because their innate ethos is to oppose tyrannical thinking.

  4. As long as we follow British Empire laws.
    The state will be all powerful.
    Individual rights will be the first causality like in 1913, 1984 and 2015 shows.
    We need some exceptional law makers and thinkers who can place “INDIVIDUAL” at the centre of Society.
    The right of Individual should not be trampled by STATE

    • The draconian and discredited TADA law and its equally repressive and disgraced successor Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act were both indigenous Indian Laws (made by Indians, perpetrated by Indians and used against Indians) that did not exist under either British or Moghul rule. Kamal Nath, Sajjan Kumar, Jagish Tytler et al are all Indians who incited other Indians to murder innocent Sikhs and then got both protection from prosecution and rewards for this from other Indians. Nothing to do with existential foreign empires with lizard aliens hiding in human skins but Indians behaving bestially and without conscience or humanity. RSS men do not enjoy freedom of speech because they have willingly sold their souls like their Nazi SS counterparts to an ideology which promotes the perverted virtue of racial superiority and total obedience to a hate spouting charismatic Head of State. Whilst you are inclined to blame foreign existential Empires for all of India’s crimes you should note that the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre did lead to Dyer’s disgrace and the pricking of British Imperial conscience and to Mahatma Gandhi concluding that Britain had from that moment on lost the moral right to govern in India. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

  5. Dr. Kamaljeet Kaur Sooch: She and Her Father Suffered and Jailed Also!

    Where are true Sikhs to Question?

    She is created by GOD to survive; otherwise, same enemy (s) is after her tactfully, shamelessly after killing their (his) conscious and politically by all means to snatch from all sources of income and for making her penniless monthly.

    I see her depressed and in anxiety always and she is not free from the system even after almost losing illegally her all legally acquired property as a second wife under unavoidable circumstances, duress and lost moral courage under the unbearable pressure mentally of Punjab police and under the garb of law and helpless, impotent, greedy, selfish judiciary constitutionally as I leaned from our case recently faced and no-one, any individual and or any political party came forward to bring the truth forward for justice till to-day.

    The complainant only proved our savior after taking all advantage from my daughter finically and snatching her property due to our duress in the system and the complainant is still proving so helpful to keep her slave forever.

    It is still the matter of slavery for the persons of source-less in India; and the complainant, to whom we are not able to oppose on any forum, legally or otherwise for lack of financial and physical sources, no support from any quarter including relatives and friends in face of cruelty meted out to us and published against us in mainstream Newspapers, as needed for every common and innocent Indians in the corrupt Indian administrative as well as in judicial system of India.

    And living now without disclosing her pains, pretending to be living freely by all means socially without any alternative to it;

    Otherwise, her circumstances have not changed and the danger to her life and her family persists even now in the hands of enemies having great influence in present government and its coteries in other parties especially in Congress and other so-called their stooges including the complainant being very rich and very well connected politically now with the present government of Punjab especially a very close friend of the Deputy Chief Minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal.

    Who can face this system and my family did also not find any ‘Gursikh’ (TRUE SIKH) came forward to find as to how and why and what for this entire family suffered and some Jailed and now declared innocents?

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