:dateline:In a press statement received from �Sikhs for Justice� (SJF) a human rights organization, SJF along with All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) launched an international campaign �1984 � Yes, It�s Genocide� to collect �Million Signatures� in support of the Sikh �Genocide Petition� to be filed before the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) in November.
�A website will be also launched to connect the Sikh community worldwide and to attract the support of Jewish, Armenian, Bosnian and Rwandan people who have been victims of genocide� said a SJF representative.
The Sikh �Genocide Petition� will be filed pursuant to �1503 Petition� procedure asking the UN to investigate the systematic, intentional and deliberate killing of Sikhs carried out throughout India during the first week of November 1984 and to recognize the events as �Genocide.� Under The �1503 PETITION� the Commission on Human Rights examines complaints which show consistent patterns of gross human rights violations as was the case with the pogroms against Sikhs in November 1984.
Based on the gravity, scale, and especially the organized nature of the attacks against Sikhs during November 1984 and discovery of new evidence containing mass graves, ruined villages, burnt Gurudwaras (Sikh Temples) and other traces of Sikh population annihilated during November 1984, the petition to the UN argues that the �the intentional and deliberate nature of the attacks on Sikh lives, properties and places of worship during November 1984 makes them crime of �Genocide� as per Article 2 of the U.N. Convention on Genocide�
SFJ will approach Israel, Armenia, Bosnia and Rwanda who have been victims of genocide for the endorsement and support of the Sikh �Genocide Petition� before UN, stated attorney Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal advisor to SFJ. Through this Petition, SFJ will provide the UN with documents, witnesses and evidence related to November 1984 Sikh Genocide, added attorney Pannun
According to Jatinder Singh Grewal, Coordinator for the �1984 � Yes It�s Genocide� campaign, since the launching the campaign in North America, more than fifty thousand signatures have already been collected. �1984 � Yes It�s Genocide� campaign will also be taken to countries of Australia, UK and European Union to collect signatures from Sikh Diaspora, added Grewal. The campaign was simultaneously launched in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary in Canada; New York, New Jersey and San Francisco in United States with the support of American Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee (AGPC) an umbrella organization of Gurudwaras in USA, Ontario Gurudwaras Committee (OGC) and Ontario Sikh and Gurudwara Council (OSGC) umbrella organizations of Sikh Gurudwaras in Canada
The Sikh community is pursing the November 1984 Sikh �Genocide Petition� before the UN pursuant to the May 05 edict of Sri Akal Takhat Sahib, the highest temporal seat of the Sikh religion.
Waheguru ji da Khalsa waheguru ji di Fateh
I request to every Sikh that its their duty to sign this signature campaign so that we can achieve our aim and culprits be punished. It is time to be get together to fight for our rights,as every one know that what we secrifised for Indias freedom and what get in return think about it PLEASE!!!!!!