From: garyd@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Gary Deol)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: re:Khalistan
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 22:41:10 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

 
A reply to a message written by: gnreddy@cbnewsf.cb.att.com 
 
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From all the news, views and analysis I could gather, terrorism is on
decline in Punjab, and peace finally seems to be returning to the strife 
torn
state.
        In a period of about four months, most of the top ranking 
militants who 
were either operating from within in the country or from across the 
borders 
have been eliminated. 
        According to the recent issue of India abroad, in the relatively 
relaxed state, school children have discarded the uniform of Khalistan 
which was imposed on them two years ago.
        Urban dwellers now socialize after dark. According to today's VOA 
news,
merchants in Amritsar made roaring business on Diwali day, which was 
unheard in a decade.
        Public concerts are back, attracting audiences in hundreds in 
cities
like Amritsar, the cradle of Sikh militancy. There have also been 
proposals
to restore night bus service throughout the state, which was suspended 
after 
repeated massacres. 
        "Sikh militancy will be eliminated within the next two years", 
asserts
Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, Police director general who had doggedly fought
Sikh militancy for nearly three years. He is confidant that the remaining
100-odd militants will be eliminated within the next few months.
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Reply:
 
  Yah and lets not forget that they are changing Punjab's name to 
'Utopia' and KPS Gill and Beant Singh are promising candidates for
the Nobel Peace Prize - as the younger youths of today say "NOT!".  
 
 
  If you remember in 1984 the police made a similiar statement that 
there were only a dozen so called terrorists (or as the Sikhs perfer
to call them Freedom Fighters) left and Punjab will once again be 
back to normal.  One would figure that after a decade and tens of 
thousands of deaths (a few thousand of them being militants - a FAR
cry from the dozen) they would learn their lesson that militancy in 
Punjab can NEVER be eliminated until the creation of Khalistan.  The 
Indian government is only kidding itself and other Hindus when it 
thinks it can go kill innocent Sikhs in fake encounters hoping it 
will demoralize the Sikh nation.  People like Mir Mannu also in the 
past tried commiting genocide on the Sikhs, only to see the Sikhs 
multiply and grow stronger! 
 
 
  A quick look of Sikh history will show that when the Khalsa Panth 
wishes to pursue something they will do so at ANY cost until their 
desired goal is achieved!  For instance in 1764 when the Sikhs were 
fighting the Afghan leader Abdali (The Maratha(Hindu's) army had ran 
off and left the Sikhs to defend Punjab)) a writer by the name of 
Qazi Nur Muhammad who was accompanying Abdali gave his view regarding
the fighting with the Sikhs: "They came like a lion and fled like a 
fox.  If you wish to learn the art of war come face to face with them 
in battle ... The body of every one of them is equal to more than 
fifty ... If their armies take to flight, we do not think they were 
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running away.  It is only a war tactic of theirs ..."  In another 
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case the brave children of Guru Gobind Singh were asked by the 
Governor of Sirhind what they would do if he let them go, they
replied "We will form an army and come back to attack you".  The 
governor astonished by the bravery of the children then asked the two 
young Sikhs what they would do if he destroyed their army, in which  
the children boldly replied "then we will form another army until you
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are finally destroyed" - that is how the Sikhs of today must fight!
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  As Sikhs like Jinda and Sukha (Given the death penalty for killing
the butcher General Vaidya) who bravely put the noose on their own 
heads and yelled out the final words "Khalistan Zindabad" before they 
were executed only emboldens the dorment (four decades) lions 
residing in every Sikh.  The deaths of such gallant Sikhs only 
reinvigorates us making us realize that the blood of our past and 
current martyers didn't go to waste!  Each day and into the near 
future other Jinda's and Sukha's will valiantly face death on the 
plains of our beloved Punjab.  Like the Sikhs before us we will fight 
until our unethical, morally bankrupt foe is finally defeated and the 
sovereign nation of Khalistan is established!  Only THEN will we morn 
for our fallen brothers (A statement which I once made to my mom, who
was crying because of the death of my militant cousin in a 
confrontation with the HINDU gov't of India).
 
 
  Just step into any school in Punjab and you will see kids talking 
about the latest attacks of their favorite militant groups or see 
more than a hundred thousand people gather at a slain militants 
funeral.  Or even witness 85 percent LESS participation at the polls 
(that explains why India doesn't want to hold a plebiscite to let the 
people of Punjab decide there own future).  The people of Punjab have 
cleary decided that their concerns can only be met in the creation of 
Khalistan;   Yet the Indian government through their slanderous media 
campaigns (mainly focused on western governments and Hindu's abroad) 
would lead you to believe the Pro-Khalistan advocates are in the 
minority.
 
 
In the dying words of many martyers "Khalistan Zindabad!" 
 
                                           - GSD
 
"Physical death I do not fear; death of conscience is a sure death."
  - Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale

Gary Deol              garyd@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca