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1984

First Things First:
As The Rats Abandon the Sinking Ship

T. SHER SINGH

 

 

 

Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles ... [Winston Churchill, 1947]


Ruinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant. When ruin is imminent, the little rodents move away beforehand. [Pliny the Elder, AD 23 - AD 78, Natural History, Book VIII.103]


 

 

The rats are hopping over the rails and flailing in the water in search of dry land, as the ship that is India has begun to flounder.

You can see them everywhere.

The Indian media has suddenly discovered -- 30 years later!  -- the horrors of 1984 and is publishing ‘new’ stories and revelations everyday.

The two main political parties are pointing at each other, suddenly decrying each other’s mass-murders, while the third -- the new kid on the block -- is (God have mercy!) promising to carry out another investigation to what happened 30 years ago.

As if it is still a secret and needs to be dug out.

With the fall of the Congress imminent, their leaders and minions are, one by one, swearing allegiance to the opposition. That’s the way of the mercenaries who will simply allow no morals or principles to stand in the way of personal gain.

Bureaucrats, politicians and officials everywhere have started to destroy files. When alerted of the mass destruction of records the other day, the Supreme Court of India ordered the New Delhi Police to explain the criteria it used to determine which and when their files are destroyed.

Yeah, right! Thirty years after the event. The country’s top justices have been as cheap in selling their loyalties as the chaprasis and peons who constitute the go-betweens in India’s free-range traffic in fraud and corruption.

Even our own cowards and gaddaars (traitors) have suddenly found courage and are telling us of the buckets of tears they have shed these past three decades worrying about the plight of their co-religionists, and why they haven’t been able to do anything till now.  

Tarlochan Singh, a former senior aide to the man who was President of India in 1984 has finally found his voice and his gonads (‘balls’, for those who know no French) and now tells us, bit by bit, of what transpired 30 years ago.

I understand why it has taken him so long to speak out. Had he done so in a timely fashion, he wouldn’t have been offered the lucrative but otherwise useless appointment to the “Minorities Commission,” or the stint to the Rajya Sabha. Or the fancy and palatial government mansion in New Delhi that only goes (for a pittance) to those who blindly toe the government line.

You can read his ‘confession’ on sikhchic.com today.

And while you’re at it, you can also read the revelations by the President of India’s daughter who now tells us of the ‘dismay’ and ‘sleepless nights’ her father purportedly suffered through … 30 years ago.

She is a medical doctor. Surely she can also tell us the medical condition whereby she had lost her voice for 30 years, and how she has suddenly recovered from her affliction!

Also today, the retired Colonel from the Indian Army has suddenly remembered and writes about the Hindu mobs he saw pulling Sikhs out of the trains in New Delhi and burning then alive, after beating them senseless with iron rods. While he and his army comrades -- soldiers! -- ’asked’ the mob to let them go and sat back heart-broken when it didn’t.

Not a surprise, not one bit of it all, watching the rats abandon the ship as it keels over and begins to slide into the murky waters.

The politicians. The so-called intellectuals and literati of India. The media. The judiciary. The religious leaders. The police. The armed forces. Bollywood and the glitterati. And ah yes, our own rats.

That’s what rats do. It is in their nature.      

*   *   *   *   *

Not to worry.

But, first things first.

First and foremost, the task before all God-fearing, fair-minded, self-respecting and thinking individuals is to make sure that each and every one associated with Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and the massive 30-year long cover-up of their lies and crimes does not come back to power.

We should use every lawful means to keep them out. Permanently.

And that includes anyone who is living off the avails of their crimes and the looting and plunder they have accomplished and all the funds now stored in Switzerland, Italy and bank accounts and properties and investments around the world.

It, of course, includes Rahul Gandhi and his sister, both of who think they are prince and princess in waiting.

It also means holding accountable every one involved, no matter how remotely, with the mass-murders of 1984 -- Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar, Kamal Nath, (late) HKL Bhagat, Amitabh Bacchan, Arun Nehru, former President Patil, current President Mukherjee, KPS Gill, KS Brar … the whole lot (you know them all), and all within their families and close circles who live off from the profits of their crimes.

Use the Criminal Code or the Civil one, but leave them with no peace.

The sword of justice must be wielded … our faith requires it of us. The laws of India and every other country we make our home give us enough power and tools to do whatever is necessary.

Slow, steady, plodding, maybe, but definitely moving ahead, even if it is one step at a time.

*   *   *   *   *

The biggest argument against our pulling down the whole structure of the current evil empire is that those who lie in wait to take over are far worse.

It is true. They are.

But that is not how justice works. Those who commit crimes against humanity must me made to feel the full brunt of the law. The fact that others who lie in wait are far worse, is no defence. 

First things first.

First, we need to bring the criminals of 1984 and the decades that followed, to justice.

We need to deliver justice to the victims of 1984 and its aftermath.

Then, we need answers to questions.

For example -- Where are the treasures looted from the Sikh Reference Library and the Toshakhana (treasury) in Amritsar?

And -- We need to know who did what and when… getting dribbles of the schemes and machinations of Indira Gandhi and her den of scoundrels is not good enough.

And -- we need an enquiry to find out how the President of India (Zail Singh) suddenly found himself dead in a car accident -- Princess Diana-like -- on the eve of publishing his memoirs, which reportedly were going to tell all about his knowledge of the goings-on around 1984. How come the manuscript disappeared? Where is it today? Tarlochan Singh, do you know? Gurdeep Kaur, do you have it?

There are umpteen questions begging for answers. 

Then, we need corrections.

To begin with, Sikhs are NOT Hindus and the Constitution of India and all the laws of the country should say so unequivocally.

Our institutions -- the SGPC, the Akal Takhts and the other four Takhts, all our Gurdwaras … they should all be given back to the Sikhs and the government or the Courts should have NO say or involvement vis-à-vis them.

Then, we turn to the needs of Punjab. Chandigarh. Waters. The drug and alcohol free trade ...

It’s going to be a long haul.

And it’ll require sacrifices along the way. (What’s new?) It won’t be easy. But remember, we are dealing with a kameena -- debased and immoral -- nation, and we have right and history and the Guru on our side.

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It’s a long haul because the next chapter under Modi and the BJP and the RSS surrogates promises to be worse.

But that is all right too. It is in the nature of things that things first need to get worse before they get better. The fruit of the tree has begun to rot, and the faster it deteriorates, the sooner it’ll fall off the tree. In the meantime, the fruit will stink to high heaven and do no good.

The rats, you will notice, are already finding dry footing on the BJP boat, regardless of the fact that it too is sinking under the weight of hindutva.

Tarlochan Singh now owes allegiance to the BJP.

Hardeep Singh Puri, the erstwhile Indian Ambassador to the United Nations under the Congress regime, never said a word against his evil masters while he was in their employ. Now, suddenly this week, he too has spoken out against their 1984 crimes. Thirty years late. And, in the same breath announced he’s joined the BJP.

We should remain vigilant.

And always in Chardi Kala. 
 
The new nuts will self-destruct as they take the ill-fated Titanic down with them. We’ll deal with them when their time comes, as long as we are prepared.

In the meantime, as we wait, Noah-like, we need to make sure that we remain on the firm and dry land of Sikhi.

But … first things first.


February 4, 2014

 

 

Conversation about this article

1: Biren Kaur (New Jersey, USA), February 04, 2014, 11:17 AM.

You have left me breathless, Sher ji. No one cuts through the crap and brings out the truth the way you do ... so daringly and courageously and surgically. Bless you.

2: Sunny Grewal (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada), February 04, 2014, 3:43 PM.

The judicial system of India is garbage. There is no law in that jungle. These men will never be brought before a court and asked to answer for their crimes. It will not happen. We must not ever think that it is remotely possible that such a thing could happen. The only way any justice could be delivered is for those men to be wiped off the face of the Earth. Unfortunatley, the brave young lions who had sought out to do such a thing, and were very successful in their attempts to do so, have all been tortured to death. All we have left are cowards addicted to opium.

3: Gurpal (United Kingdom), February 04, 2014, 4:55 PM.

I think the manuscript you are referring to is 'Memoirs of Giani Zail Singh' published by Har-Anand Publishers. He dictated it to his aide, S. Manohar Singh Batra and it was published after his death. Interestingly he paints himself as a saint who had nothing to do with the happenings and the build up in tension in Punjab pre-1984. It was of course Darbara Singh discrediting him! There is only one brilliant book by one of the senior most officials of the Home Ministry, which exposes Zail Singh's and Indira Gandhi's role in bringing Punjab to the brink of the abyss, and that is 'The Searching Eye' by Gurdev Singh Grewal. Contains things I didn't even know.

4: Inder Singh (California, USA), February 04, 2014, 5:04 PM.

Gurpal ji: I think the point Sher Singh ji is making over the manuscript of the memoirs is that there is a belief that Zail Singh was killed to prevent the publication of what he was about to disclose in his book. What was published later had all the key portions missing. The question is: who has the full, original manuscript? Surely Tarlochan Singh and/or Gurdeep Kaur!?

5: Kaala Singh (Punjab), February 04, 2014, 9:51 PM.

I have only one wish before I die. Let us be united and increase our numbers and have our own defence force, and then let them send their rats and mobs and armies.

6: Ravinder Singh Taneja (Westerville, Ohio, USA), February 05, 2014, 12:30 PM.

Thanks, Sher. Keep going.

7: Mahanjot Sodhi (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada), February 05, 2014, 2:27 PM.

T. Sher Singh ji, thanks once again for calling a spade a spade and formulating so precisely on what exactly needs to be done for starters. But should we really be hoping for any justice from a nation where at the helm of affairs are all gangoos, and a political scenario which is only going to get worse with mass murderers like Modi & gang now poised to become leaders!? I'd tend to agree with Sunny Grewal (post # 2) that an uprising of some sort is perhaps required once again to get rid of the evil, but this time it doesn't necessarily have to be a violent one though. I might sound like a dreamer but I am hoping that one day parties like AAP can actually form a govt. at the federal level and bring about the long-averted and long-awaited justice. Until then though India is going to remain what it's always been ... a living hell-hole for all, including minorities, be they social, religious or along caste lines, etc.

8: Gurpal (United Kingdom), February 05, 2014, 4:20 PM.

Don't forget the Mitrokhin files, available on the internet, detail how the KGB helped push Indira to a 'final solution' to the 'Sikh problem'. I have exposed this to a wider audience on the Sikh channel. It's all in the public domain anyway.

9: Hardev Singh (Richmond Hil, Ontario, Canada ), February 05, 2014, 4:36 PM.

There is one unintended consequence, for which we must be thankful to Dr. Manmohan Singh. Being reputed to be the weakest of all prime ministers of India, under whom corruption, graft and extra-judicial culture thrived with impunity, the Congress Party is facing its impending demise, as the masses are in open revulsion and revolt.

10: N Singh (Canada), February 05, 2014, 7:17 PM.

@Kaala Singh #5 -- that is my wish also before I die. To see my people free, strong, healthy and wealthy. Healed from the pain of 1984, including and especially the widows/orphans of 1984. However the work has only just began. There are also the disappearances still to be dealt with and exposed.

11: H. Kaur (Canada), February 06, 2014, 3:56 AM.

Those who don't look at history and learn from it are doomed. The current power holders of India massacred Muslims in Hyderabad in 1948 in the tens of thousands. It has now been called "India's Hidden Massacre" by the BBC, for instance. What truths will come out there? None, I am sure. I haven't even heard of people demanding that those truths come out. Sikhs clamour for the truth to come out all the time and are basically told to forget what happened, even by creatures who look like Sikhs in the Indian government, thanks to the turbans they wear. I understand since India's independence it has waged war in some form in at least ten states, against those it calls Tribals, against Muslims, against Christians in Goa, against anyone who is different basically from the Hindu mould. Someday of course this evil nation will fall. God will make it fall. As far as nations go, it is not even a hundred years old, a mere infant but already it is rotting. It cannot last very long because it is just too corrupt for its own good and has too many problems it can't deal with. It is every man for himself there basically with no thought of the common good except when it comes to handing out things in exchange for votes.

12: Gurdarshan Singh (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), February 06, 2014, 6:57 AM.

@ #5 and #10: Why not we as Sikhs ask for independence. How? From historical evidence, as Punjab was a independent Sikh state/kingdom by itself during Maharaja Ranjit Singh's reign, that is before the British took it and colonized us. As evidence has shown that prior to independence or creation of India and Pakistan, (note: there was no India until then) there were clear discussions between the British, the Sikhs and the rest on the subject of a third, Sikh nation. Thus based on these grounds can the Sikhs make the representation to the United Nation or world Court/ICJ, etc. for seeking an independent state? By referring to the history and the background of Sikhs may provide sufficient evidence that the Sikhs are and have always been a separate quom with their own flag, languages, identity, religion, etc. Case on point: creation of new European states, e.g., breakdown of Yugoslavia. Any international lawyers or jurists to study this matter as alternative route for independence of the Sikh nation?

13: Kaala Singh  (Punjab), February 06, 2014, 9:22 AM.

@12: Independence will not come on a platter and the UN, the lesser said about it the better. When the state of Texas joined USA, there were clear discussions and a clear documented agreement, that Texas can become independent at any time. Did the Sikhs have any such documented agreement authenticated by the British who were the rulers at that time, or by anybody else? Had there been such an agreement, there could have been a stronger case. The Sikh leaders representing us at those times had either compromised themselves or were unsophisticated and did not have the capacity to negotiate such agreements. We did have top-notch men and women who could've stepped in on our behalf and done yeoman service, but they were co-opted by the Hindus quite early on -- a la Hardit Singh Malik, Kapur Singh, et al.

14: Kaala Singh  (Punjab), February 06, 2014, 10:52 AM.

@12: The question before us at the moment is not if we will ever get independence BUT are we ready for independence, who will rule us if we were to be independent and will it be any better or more miserable. Considering the present state of affairs I do not think we are ready for nationhood. Look at our leaders of today, are they any different from those of 1947? Like the Jews, we will have to prepare ourselves for nationhood through education and science, through industry and economics, through politics and military prowess, if we are ever to be a successful and independent nation and build the institutions and infrastructure to be a nation. We all know what happened to the Sikh Kingdom of Ranjit Singh after his death.

15: Sunny Grewal (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada), February 06, 2014, 8:52 PM.

I don't think an independent Sikh state will ever happen, not in my life time at least and I am a young man. We should be focused on providing education to Sikhs in India and making them into the elites of Indian society. The latest statistics have already shown that Sikhs are #1 in the entire country for access to secondary education. We have such a large diaspora full of professionals who are connected to their heritage to some degree that there is no reason why world class education cannot be brought to the Sikhs in Punjab. If a proper road map to prosperity can be created for all Sikhs in India, then maybe in the future our own nation state will become more of a reality. As it stands now, I would rather see the Sikhs become an even more prosperous minority group and exploit India from within. Our own community has been exploited enough.

16: N Singh (Canada), February 06, 2014, 10:42 PM.

@12 and 15: Some intelligent thoughts. I tend to agree -- even though I would like to see a free Sikh Nation, I think at the moment the focus should be on education, education and more education. We need to focus on building our newer generations and our financial strength and clout. With enough financial resources we can bring the desis to heel. It has been done by the Jews in America whereby even though they are a minority Washington is basically run by the Jewish lobby. We can do the same. Well said!

17: Gurdarshan Singh (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), February 07, 2014, 4:32 AM.

@ 13,14 & 15 -- I agree with your respective points. However we should look into these matter of independence by keeping the flame on. I.e., by setting up committees comprising both Punjabi/Indian and diaspora Sikhs to tackle issues that directly lead us to the creation of independence of the Sikh Nation. Example of these committees could be set up to study on constitutional matters for the creation of an independent state, other committees or groups doing research as S Kaala Singh ji mentioned, whether there are any such documents existing or available perhaps in British archives or in India itself. Another learned group of Sikhs should step up by proposing an umbrella body of Sikhs in every nation (even though there could be 1000 or less Sikhs in a particular country) and through these groups create a new powerful international body representing at least 110 nations. Another group, as Grewal Sahib rightly pointed out that education is important, thus have another international body to ensure that Sikhs in Punjab/India are being taught the right subjects including finance to gain the intellectual level that shows the professionalism in Sikh youth in India. Thus, my above points are for the purpose of keeping the idea of independence alive through these committees whether in the area of law, history, political studies and developing intellectual levels among the Sikhs youth, etc. and to report to the proposed international Sikh organization. Examples are the peoples of Quebec and Scotland who are keeping the flame on for independence despite objection from the rest of the citizenry, similarly such circumstances and awareness should be created toward the said goal. Thus with pressure from these Sikh groups globally on international bodies, e.g., the UN, they may conduct a census in Punjab on feedback for independence when the time is ripe.

18: Kaala Singh (Punjab), February 07, 2014, 11:53 AM.

@17: I appreciate your thoughts but I would say that we have already missed the bus in 1947. The geographical location of Punjab is such that India will resist letting go of that piece of prime land, and it will not survive if that were to happen. I am not sure if people are aware of these facts: The only land connection to Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh is through Punjab. Losing Punjab will mean losing J&K and Himachal. These are areas of immense strategic importance to India. Losing these mountainous areas means losing the natural Himalayan wall that protects India from foes like China and Pakistan. It also means losing vital water and other resources. In my own personal view, they will fight hard to prevent these areas from slipping out of their hands. You will now understand why the Indian and also Pakistani leaders of those times tried so hard to lure the Sikhs in joining their respective nations. The British tried to induce the Sikhs to be independent so that they could still wield influence in this part of the world. Everybody understood the importance of this piece of real estate except the Sikhs who inhabited it.

19: Kaala (Punjab), February 08, 2014, 10:21 AM.

The question that comes to my mind, "Why did we get embroiled with these guys in the first place?" Guru Nanak laid out a clear path for us 500 years earlier. Can somebody enlighten me, as to where we took the wrong turn.

20: N Singh (Canada), February 08, 2014, 3:48 PM.

@19: I believe it was the day we let hundreds of Hindus convert to Sikhi to further their own interests rather than for their love of the religion. Remember the days when Hindu families had one person convert? From that time onwards we were inadvertently infiltrated by the customs, practices and views of those converts and their families. People who managed to convince us that our sole purpose in life was to lay down our lives for their sake, not for the sake of all humanity or other Sikhs, but just for them. That is the day we handed over our independence of thought and mind to them.

21: Jasvir Kaur (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), February 08, 2014, 6:35 PM.

Let's not jump ahead. First things first ... or we'll not accomplish anything of substance. Fool Me Once (1947) ... Shame On You! Fool Me Twice (1984) ... Shame On Me! Fool Me Thrice (30 years later) ... ?

22: Hardev Singh (Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada), February 09, 2014, 12:56 AM.

One factor is always missed when talking about a Sikh sate. In any democracy numbers or votes play a critical role. In pre-independent Punjab, Sikhs at only 11% of the population were a minority community; after partition their number rose to 23% in Indian Punjab, and slightly over 50% with the language boundary reorganization, and loss of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Today, due to lack of opportunities Sikh youth would rather emigrate. There are villages bereft of young male members. With the influx of Biharis, Sikhs are likely to see their political clout decline further. Witness the inability of Akalis to form a government without the BJP. The real driving force and the political agenda in Punjab affairs has already been surrendered to the BJP. Per capita GDP 5 years ago in Punjab was 2nd place after Haryana. Today it is in 6th place, with a bankrupt treasury while its political masters are personally rolling in billions. Indeed, there is a lot of work to be done.

23: R.S. Minhas (USA), February 09, 2014, 9:28 AM.

#22 is spot on about functioning of vote bank politics in a democracy and our lack of preparation while joining it. The Muslim League under Jinnah refused to be a minority in a Hindu majority India and carved out Pakistan in 1947. They simply refused to trust the Indians. Punjab has existed since the dawn of civilization, while no one had heard of Pakistan before. Muslim leadership got further special status in Kashmir where they had a majority and special laws enacted under the Indian constitution elsewhere. Subsequent Sikh struggles seem to be rooted in being a minority trying to work from within. It would have been a lot easier to write favorable laws when in power under Sikh rulers. Now both India and Pakistan have consolidated their positions, including getting nuclear weapons. Sikhs leaders blew another chance to gain in numbers when in 1947 BR Ambedkar, a key architect of the Indian Constitution, wanted lower castes to leave Hinduism en masse, and join Sikhism. Sikhs would again have had more political clout. 50% of present day India is comprised of so called 'lower-castes', who have been gaining political and economic strength. All is not lost though. But first things first. We need to set higher expectations of politicians, Sikh ones in particular. Give every politician (all of them) running for office a straight up-down choice - either they support justice for 1984 genocide victims or not. They are either WITH the victims or AGAINST the victims. A yes-no choice, with no roundabout answers. Then list the ones who will not, and publicize their names worldwide as ones obstructing justice vis-a-vis a genocide, with intent to have them defeated. They are the ones who are hindering justice and it will be clear who they are. These tainted ones might also have blood on their hands. In the internet age, news flows freely and fast. Bad press is a politician's nightmare and they are vulnerable. It is about time the bad ones keep getting more nightmares. At the moment they are hiding and ducking under cover of confusion and roundabout answers, including the Sikh ones. An accurate, targeted campaign in ferreting their stand seems like a must.

24: Inderjit Kaur (New Delhi, India), February 09, 2014, 2:28 PM.

Zail Singh has already gone to meet his Maker ... he can give his excuses directly as to why he stayed on his vacuous job for years after the criminal attack on, and massacre in Amritsar, etc. But the million dollar question is: did his chamchas like Tarlochan Singh immediately resign from their meaningless jobs, or did they sit on their hands, their eyes and ears and mouths clamped shut, while the human rights violations by the Indian authorities continued to escalate in the years that followed 1984? Or did he and his friends continue to milk the cow? And now want to switch cows!

25: Kaala (Punjab), February 10, 2014, 12:02 PM.

As rightly said above, let's not get fooled again. We tend to become complacent and forget the past. You will see stooges everywhere occupying important posts with no power to anything, some Sikhs will be pleased but not those who have seen the horror of those times. First things first, it is very important to preserve the Sikh majority of Punjab which is being diluted everyday. This piece of land is the last sanctuary of the Sikhs. Sikh farmers have become drug addicts incapable of doing anything and all work is being done by the migrants from UP and Bihar (for those who don't know, these guys did most of the killing in Delhi in Nov'84 and after Delhi, UP and Bihar were the places where most killings took place). These are criminals of the first order and need to be kept out. Punjab should go for hi-tech agriculture and mechanization, otherwise the day is not far off when a "Delhi" will be repeated in Punjab.

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