:dateline:On�March 31, former advocate of the Supreme Court of India, Harwinder Singh Phoolka, strongly condemned the comment made by student leader Kanhayia Kumar. Kanhayia Kumar had stated that the Indian government did not have�a role in instigating the Sikh genocide of November 1984.
Advocate HS Phoolka asked Kanhayia Kumar either to take back his statement or have an open debate with him at Jawahar Lal Nehru University.
Phoolka said that the Congress government also claimed its innocence but the probing commissions had always found it�guilty of genocide.�He advised Kanhayia Kumar to look at�the independent report published under the title “Doshi Kaun�” by the People�s Union for Democratic Rights. He added that renowned advocates and human rights activists have revealed in the report how government machinery was used to commit the genocide against�Sikhs in Delhi during November of 1984. �
“There is no bigger lie than what�Kanhayia Kumar is saying,� said�Bhai Jarnail Singh of the Aam Aadmi Party. �”We supported him since everyone has freedom of speech, but�Kanhayia Kumar, this doesn’t mean you can openly lie. �The Rajiv Gandhi Government was openly involved in the massacres of�Sikhs in 1984.”
Bhai Jarnail Singh named several government officials who were involved in the mass killings. �”When Narasimha Rao was approached to stop the bloodshed of the Sikhs, he refused to do so,” said Bhai Jarnail Singh.
Shortly after�Kanhayia Kumar’s comment�contrasting the 1984 anti-Sikh killings with the 2002 Gujarat killings went viral on social media, he offered a clarification saying that his statement was misinterpreted once again. �Kumar posted the following clarification:
“I have been misinterpreted and misrepresented yet again. There isn�t an iota of doubt that Emergency represents one of the darkest periods of Indian democracy. My organization AISF strongly opposed and fought against the state repression during Emergency. Both 1984 and 2002 were indeed state led pogroms for which justice is still awaited. The current central government is relentlessly carrying forward its fascist agenda using state power, as visible in the recent authoritarian actions against students and all voices of dissent across the country. What we now witness is unprecedented � a form of undeclared emergency.”
We need to have a Universal set of Law makers.
Law makers with parochial mindset are a risk to society.
Just follow the laws set down by the international criminal court in the Hague and you will get rid of the parochial mindset.
I agree.
But we live in a law abiding societies.
How to make Regimes ,leaders and rulers accountable to law is a challenge.
We must strengthen world bodies Luke UN and International court of Justice to make world a better place to live.
We don’t live in a law abiding society but one which mocks the law whilst hypocritically using it to further their own personal ends. Politicians and police know it is just words written in a book the common man doesn’t have access to and follow Himmler’s Godless musing ‘Who compels us to keep the promises we make?’ That is why belief in Waheguru is essential as divine writ guides a man’s conscience as the Almighty is the final and highest judge of that man’s actions. And for those that reject Him and his authority trying to dispense with the principles of Miri Piri and the Panj Pyare, well God believes in you even though you may not believe in Him. There are NO dead atheists.
I agree with you.
Justice should always be done how so ever difficult it is to implement for the sake of people to believe in law.
1984 was a genocide followed by extra judicial killings.
We need to change our British empire inherited laws which allows impunity to State ,leader and Regime.
It is not Laws or even your Empire inherited Laws that kill innocent people. It is the mentality of the man who has forgotten his humanity and is prepared to give over all his own personal responsibility to the State. You don’t need a law to tell you rape is wrong, you don’t need a law to tell you throwing a child into a burning building is wrong, you don’t need a law to tell you that scalping a man, beating him with iron bars, stabbing him and then setting him on fire with a kerosene filled tyre about his neck is wrong, you don’t need a law to tell you kidnapping, torture and murder are wrong and that even in a uniform you are not entitled to act as judge, jury and executioner without due process and legal and humane redress. You don’t need laws to tell you any of these things are wrong. You just need to remember you are a human being.
Why bother what one of the 130 crore Indians has to say.
History of 1984 is well documented in all mediums .
His statements has no impact on truth.
1984 was a Genocide by the then Regime of India.
Why bother?! Because the 130 crore Indians still think as you have previously espoused that ‘all is fair in love and war’ and mistakenly believe that Sikhs were massacred in a legitimate ‘collective punishment’ (how many would think that if we asked how many innocent Hindu men, woman and children should be indiscriminately and brutally murdered whilst the police look on or actively participate in collective punishment for the RSS murder of Mahatma Gandhi or the Tamil assassination of butcher Rajiv Gandhi?) When you allow that kind of ignorant and highly prejudiced view to become accepted by the majority population as a ‘new normal’ you are setting the Sikhs up to have genocides committed against them again. We have already endured in the fifteen years post 1984 state sanctioned extra judicial kidnapping, torture and murder of Sikhs in Punjab which to this day is unchallenged as the judiciary (the same one that refused to accept genocide of Sikhs in Delhi) won’t even allow self confessed police killers like Gurmeet Pinky to give evidence in court and so incriminate their police and political superiors. It matters when you allow the general population to believe in a lie – that is how the Nazis were able to get the general German population turn a blind eye to discrimination, persecution and then holocaust of the Jews in their country. You learn form history or you are doomed to repeat it.
As for ‘1984 was a Genocide by the then Regime of India’ you cannot absolve the BJP either as they were very vocal in their Hinduvta provocations in Punjab leading up to 1984 and egged on the Congress Party to bring down the ‘uppity’ SIkhs a peg or two. Since 1984 we have had BJP in power as much as Congress and through their combined leaderships NOTHING has happened in regards to the CBI arresting the mass murderers of Sikhs (other than to repeatedly give clean chits to politicians like Tytler) and the complete failure of judiciary in convicting mass murderers of Sikhs (there have instead been a number of inquiries which again have white washed the enormity of the crime committed against the Sikh kaum). These are NOT just historical injustices from decades past but institutionalised bigotry and persecution of Sikhs which continues to this day (just a six weeks ago the Indian Sarkar had egg thrown on its face trying to extradict a Sikh human rights activist from Portugal who was given asylum against torture he faced in Punjab).