Punjab Police Cracks Down on Innocent Sikh Youth After Beas “Anakh Rally”

It is asking for trouble to live in your own home?! What?! As for Mecca and Jerusalem being old fashioned as religious centres of the world you are just showing your total disrespect and intolerance for other people’s religions including Sikhism of which you are not an adherent.

What is wrong with Sikhs having their Sikh homeland and heartland in the real Punjab where we have shed our blood sweat and tears for centuries. You want to make the Sikhs a homeless nation of people by trying to evict them from their own lands. NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. Amritsar is like our Mecca and Jerusalem – no Sikh no matter where he lives in the world can forsake the land where Sikhi was born and nurtured so abandon this Hinduvta dream.

‘Utopia’ was an idealised imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More’s book Utopia from 1516 and although you may be thinking the term utopian means ‘founded upon or involving idealised perfection’ it is far more likely to be used to mean ‘given to impractical or unrealistic schemes of such perfection’. You do not need to reach for an unlikely and virtually impossible to achieve utopian society to build a just and fair society because the instructions for that are present not just in Sikhi’s Gurmat but also in the common decency of humanity we all possess. Before 1947 all the peoples inhabiting the subcontinent shared the same dream of liberation; living in dignity and freedom – since 1984 that has become a living nightmare for the Sikhs. All we want is to practise our religion in peace without interference or molestation from anyone – why do we have to wait for an utopia for that and suffer indignities, assaults, abuses, denigration and murder of our children in the meantime? A British Commanding Officer in the 19th Century wrote a small introduction for newly commissioned junior officers assigned to Sikh units in India based on his experience: ‘…There cannot be a more horrendous people when honour is at stake. Though they may be betrayed by their Chiefs the common Sikh in the field will long remember each insult and will avenge every wrong no matter how long it takes, no matter what hardships he must endure nor the price he must pay even it be his own death. This is truly miraculous as he does so with absolutely no hope of resurrection nor of eternal reward in a heaven for giving up his happiness or last breath. As unlike the European the Sikh does not believe in a Hereafter where he might be reunited with his loved ones nor given everlasting life by our Saviour. What an implacable foe he is then, driven by unwavering duty rather than glory to meet his end and if possible, yours into the bargain. Yet! Put your arms around the man and hug him like a brother and sincerely apologise for having caused him slight or offence. Before you have finished the Sikh has melted like butter in the hot sun and is ready to take on the world for you.’ This is how the British won the loyalty of the Sikhs who stood by their oaths of fealty less than ten years after the British had annexed the Punjab and brought an end to their Khalsa Raj. The Sikhs would stand with the British for a hundred years and fight steadfastly by their sides in two World Wars even though after the first in 1919 the British had lost the moral right to their allegiance. The Britishers understood Sikh history and Sikh psyche and gave the Sikhs a certain dignity and patronage (albeit for their own purposes) allowing the Sikh soldier to preserve his identity, raising Sikh regiments and indeed making it compulsory for the Sikhs therein to live according to the tradition of Sikhism. It is high time the Indians too realise that the Sikhs are the jewel in their crown also and start treating us with the same esteem and not repeat the eventual hubristic folly of the British who also started to interfere in Sikhism with their appointed mahants and brutal violence towards Sikh protesters which ultimately lost them their British Raj with such complacent arrogance.

Exactly the sentiment and justification for brutal repression espoused by General Dyer and Governor General Michael O’Dwyer to excuse the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and crawling orders by which Sikhs were forced to crawl on their bellies down an alley under the supervision of police in 1919 in Amritsar as well as the Rowlatt Act indignities imposed on the rest of Punjab. Nearly a hundred years on from that you want us to return to such acceptance of such indignities and human rights abuses? Udham Singh would be proud of you (not) but then again he is probably now regarded as a trouble making terrorist too instead of a Shaheed alongwith Bhagat Singh by Hinduvta history rewriters / deniers because they were Sikhs. The Punjab police need to be completely reconstituted to rid itself of the institionalised prejudice it has towards Sikhs in the same way the SOuth African Police and Northern Ireland Police had to in order to stop police abuses against blacks and Catholics respectively. Law abiding society means the police are obliged to be law abiding also and not just slavish servants of political interests intent upon a Hinduvta agenda to emasculate Sikhi. No Sikhs have attacked Hindu temples and torn pages of Hindu sacred texts onto the street, no Sikhs have attacked Hindus on the street and uploaded videos onto the internet to boast about such (cowardly) attacks, no Sikhs are bragging about teaching Hindus a genocidal lesson (as the Shiv Sena is with 1984), No Sikhs are stopping Hindus from attending public examinations and demanding they first rid themselves of their Hindu religious identity before being allowed to sit those exams (as in Haryana in past weeks), No Hindus are being shot dead in the street by Punjab police or by Sikhs so why are Sikhs being rounded up and arrested again and again and again? Because they use their democratic right and duty to protests and dissent which is far too much of an example to others to do the same to improve Punjab for those who have fake democratic credentials to mask their deep rooted totalitarian instincts and economic self interests.

In Punjab the Punjab Police ‘FORCE’ (not service) by its own reckoning (ask Gurmeet Pinky – oh no you cannot because even the judges have told him they do not want to hear his confession that would implicate both his and his fellow officers extra judicial murders) has killed Sikhs with total impugnity. This includes the shooting dead of two Sikhs just seven months ago (which I have raised with you every single time you have put forward the fascist idea that the police should be allowed a free hand to do whatever they like in the blanket name of maintaining ‘order’ and you have failed to address even once) which Justice Katju concluded was culpable manslaughter if not outright murder. Those police officers have not been suspended or arrianged and will not be because they are protected by the turncoat Badal Government (which has set up an alternative inquiry in order to give them a clean chit). The police have failed in Punjab to stop the ongoing beadbi sacrileges of Guru Granth Sahib (so much so they want to hand the inquiry and blame over to the CBI which itself has a long history of coming up empty handed when it comes to delivering justice to Sikhs – repeated clean chits to Jagdish Tytler for example over a 30 year period et al). The Punjab police needs to be totally reformed in the same way the Ulster Police force and South African Police Force was radically changed to remove the current institutionised mindset which is to go after and even kill Sikhs in order to please political masters who wish to bridle Sikhs from expressing their democratic right to dissent and protests against policies which are targeting their interests (which are also the majority interests in Punjab as they are the majority population in Punjab). The Sikhs are not the ones on the streets and in the media attacking Hindus and the right of Hindus to practise their religion yet you think we should stand by and remain silent when our religion and its adherents are being assailed. Your Hinduvta parties the Shiv Sena and RSS are taunting the Sikhs and threatening us just as they did in the seventies which led to the murder of 13 Sikhs in Amritsar in 1978 by their Nirankari cult proxies (which I imagine is why you cry so much over the death of their leader now). It is not warring ‘groups’ that are being kept apart by the Punjab police. It is one warring group the Hinduvta RSS and SHiv Sena et al which is religiously intolerent of others emboldened to think it has the upper hand as it is in cahoots with law enforcers (who should be impartial but clearly are not – look at how the BJP have managed to get some of its RSS members off a bombing charge) to do whatever it wants. This is the real clear and present danger. The people who should be in control in Punjab are its electorate which are the majority Sikhs. If you think the people in control should just be the police which have a proven track record of killing Sikhs with impugnity then you don’t believe in democracy but in an authoritarian police state. In the meantime I think you and your Hinduvta bosses should send your Shiv Sena and RSS thugs to go and fight against the Jihadis in Afghanistan so you can learn the martial skills that my Sikh forefathers learned hundreds of years ago and passed into the genes of my nation which enabled India to become free in the first place.