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================================================== INFORMATION TIMES: http://www.InformationTimes.com America's Daily Internet Newspaper - Washington DC, USA ================================================== InfoTimes News-Info Network http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes ================================================== HINDU EXTREMISTS IMPOSE REPRESSIVE LAW ON INDIA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1305 - Council of Khalistan http://www.Khalistan.com - Deep Cracks in India's Ruling Coalition Religious conflict in the north could cause the government to fall, further destabilizing a tension-riddled region. http://businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2002/nf2002041_6807.htm - Is India Going the Way of 1930s Germany? http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2002/0203indhind.html - The POTB is Not the Answer to the Attack on Indian Parliament http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/2001/india12182001.html - Briefing on the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance http://www.web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/index/asa200492001 ================================================== Publisher: http://www.InformationTimes.com Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - TOP NEWS HINDU EXTREMISTS IMPOSE REPRESSIVE LAW ON INDIA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1305 Hindu Terrorism Against Sikhs, Christians, Muslims, Dalits, Others has been Legalized. WASHINGTON, DC, USA, April 10, 2002 (FPN) - The Indian Parliament recently passed the so-called "Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance" (POTO), a law more repressive than the "Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act" (TADA), which expired in 1995. According to The Washington Post, POTO allows authorities to detain any Indian citizens, tourists and foreigners for 180 days without filing charges and denies access to witnesses for cross-examination. It also facilitates the use of intercepted communications as evidence in Special Courts, which have failed to provide equal justice to citizens of India because they are neither independent nor just/fair. Under POTO, the burden of proof is on the accused and there is no mandatory right to compensation for those detained and later found not guilty. "How can India, a 'democratic country', hold any person without charges for six months?" asked Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of the Washington-based Council of Khalistan, which leads the Sikh struggle for independence. "The United States Supreme Court ruled a few years ago that suspects could be held for 48 hours, and many Americans thought that was too long, yet India, the world's largest tyranny, claims the power to hold persons without charge or trial for six months." "This bill is worse than TADA," said Dr. Aulakh. According to the March 27 issue of The Washington Post, "about 76,000 people were arrested under that measure." According to a recent report from the Movement Against State Repression (MASR), India admitted to holding 52,268 Sikhs as political prisoners under TADA. On February 28, 42 Members of the U.S. Congress wrote to President Bush, asking him to work to get these political prisoners freed. "This new law shows the true face of Indian secularism," said Dr. Aulakh. "It is a product of majority Hindu repression," he said. "The Congress Party is shedding crocodile tears about POTO, but where are the votes? Was it not the Congress Government which invaded the Golden Temple and murdered over 20,000 Sikhs in Punjab in June 1984?" Hindus are about 83 percent of India's population. "It is irrelevant to minorities whether Congress or the BJP is in power," said Dr. Aulakh. "Either way, the repression continues and the minorities continue to die," he said. "The majority Hindus are bent on the destruction of Sikhs, Muslims, Christians and other minorities," he said. The Indian-Hindu Government has murdered over 250,000 Sikhs since 1984. It has slaughtered over 80,000 Kashmiri-Muslims since 1988. It has massacred more than 200,000 Christians since 1947, along with tens of thousands of Indian-Muslims, Dalits, Tamils, Assamese, Bodos, Manipuris, Tripuris, Bengalis and other minorities. Since Christmas 1998, Christians have felt the brunt of the Hindu terrorist attacks. Priests have been murdered, nuns have been raped, churches have been burned, Christian schools and prayer halls have been destroyed, and no one has been punished for these barbarous crimes. Militant Hindu fundamentalists allied with the RSS, the pro-Fascist parent organization of the ruling BJP, burned missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons to death. "It is shameful that the Akali Dal, which is supposed to be the Sikh party, is in alliance with the BJP," Dr. Aulakh said. "They ran the most corrupt government in Punjab's history, they refused to release political prisoners, they refused to release their own report on the police murder of Akal Takht Jathedar Gurdev Singh Kaunke," he said. "How can they claim to represent the Sikh Nation?" Dr. Aulakh pointed out that just two days ago, Hindu leaders said that if minorities want peace, they must "earn the good will of Hindus" and serve Hindus. Last year, an Indian cabinet member said that everyone living in India must be a Hindu or be subservient to Hindus. In July 1997, Narinder Singh, a spokesman for the Golden Temple, told National Public Radio (NPR): "The Indian Government, all the time they boast that they're democratic, they're secular, but they have nothing to do with a democracy, they have nothing to do with a secularism. They try to crush Sikhs just to please the [Hindu] majority." "The only way to escape this government-supported violence and tyranny is for the Sikhs, Christians, Muslims and other minorities to claim their freedom from India," Dr. Aulakh said. "That is the only way to prevent the Hindu theocracy from wiping us out," he said. He noted that Hindu laborers are being sent into Punjab "to make the Sikhs a minority in their own land." "Outsiders can't buy land in Himachal Pradesh and other neighboring Hindu states," Dr. Aulakh noted, "but Hindus are buying up land in Punjab. Why can outsiders buy land in Punjab when Sikhs can't buy land in these Hindu states? Clearly, the Hindu fundamentalists are trying to wipe out the Sikh religion and culture," he said. "Sikhs are a separate nation and ruled Punjab until 1849. Punjab was never a part of India. No Sikh has signed the Indian Constitution. The people of India must have self-determination now," Dr. Aulakh said. "India is on the verge of disintegration," he said. "Khalistan will be free by 2008." [Copyright � 2002 Information Times. 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