LONDON, UK—The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected in Brussels on March 30 for the European Union-India Summit to discuss bi-lateral trade despite the terrorist attacks of March 22, 2016. In November 2015 Narendra Modi visited the UK after a de-facto international ban that lasted more than 10 years.
The Sikh Federation (UK) has written to the European Commission and all 751 MEPs on behalf of the Federation of Sikh Organisations (Europe) to raise key concerns of the 1-million strong Sikh community across the EU. “Since Narendra Modi came to power in May 2014, there has been a disturbing rise in the level of intolerance. Gross human rights violations in India aimed at religious and ethnic minorities, women and people of lower caste are a daily occurrence. Surveys now regard India as one of the most intolerant places in the world,” said Bhai Amrik Singh, the Chair of the Sikh Federation (UK).
A number of issues have been raised with Frederica Mogherini, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission. The letter to Frederica Mogherini states:”The EU sees human rights as universal and indivisible. It actively promotes and defends them both within its borders and when engaging in relations with non-EU countries like India. This was most recently illustrated in the last few months when India failed in its attempt to extradite a political refugee from the UK, Parmajeet Singh Pamma. India misused an Interpol Rad Notice by having him illegally arrested and imprisoned in Portugal when he travelled there on holiday with his family.” A meeting has also been requested with the European External Action Service (EEAS), which deals with India.
The visit of Narendra Modi provides an opportunity to raise legitimate concerns about the treatment of Sikhs and other minorities in India. EU Member States and politicians across the globe are increasingly becoming aware of the worrying developments taking place in India. The actions of the right wing Indian regime pose a genuine threat to international stability and world peace that can not be ignored by the EU when negotiating trade deals.
All MEPs have been sent a briefing produced by the Sikh Federation (UK) on key matters of concern first produced for UK politicians when Modi visited the UK in November last year. It highlights a number of important issues including: a UN-led inquiry into the 1984 Sikh Genocide and justice for the victims by punishing the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity, the prosecution of Indian police officers responsible for torture, disappearances and false encounters in Punjab, and the legitimate demand for Sikh self determination, including the re-establishment of an independent Sikh homeland, Khalistan.
I have already said that it was the Genocide -4 of Sikh people.
Two under Mughals one under the British and one under the Indian Govt .
Why are the great powers of the world like USA ,UK , Germany and Russia not agreeing to it surprises me .
Well you have changed your tune then as previously you have commented that for it to be called a ‘genocide’ we need for that to be determined by the UK, US, Germany and Russia (sic) which was at best an attempt to try and muddy the waters.
1) Nations are created and destroyed by Empires of the day.
2) Genocide should be recognized by world powers like USA ,UK ,Russia ,Germany for it to become real. Without there concurrence nothing achieves reality .
3) Eventually Time will give it reality .
1) No, they are not. I have explained this to you in detail on this website and you have never ever been able to answer let alone refute my total deconstruction of your facile argument which is cynically designed solely to deflect culpability from Indians onto amorphous, existential foreign powers.
2) You don’t need the US or Europe – I am going to omit Russia as their human rights and civil liberties record is as bad as China’s – to tell you that pogrom against the Sikhs by the Indian Sarkar in 1984 was a genocide anymore than you need to rely on their legal definition of rape to tell you eve teasing that goes on in India is misogyny from an equally backwards paternal controlling mindset. The evidence is overwhelming and when NGOs like Amnesty International (who have no political considerations to trade deals to worry about) give their verdict you call a spade a spade not begrudgingly concede it may be a gardening implement of some sort.
3) Time. If it were up to you you’d wait 4 BILLION YEARS – which you have repeatedly asserted is a short period of time – to declare the mass murder of Sikhs a genocide because hey, after all they are only Sikhs even if men, women and children were scalped, beaten, thrown into fire, raped, shot, stabbed, burned alive with kerosene filled tyres.