Khalistan Calling newsletter dated March 26, 2003

The three million strong diaspora Sikhs, unlike their 21 million compatriots captive in India, are free and prosperous and they are determined - as they believe it is their destiny and pray for it every day; Raj Karayga Khalsa; Sikhs will rule - to create a sovereign, democratic, egalitarian Sikh buffer state of KHALISTAN in South Asia, stretching from the Jumna river on the East, to the Pakistan border on the West, China on the Northeast and Kashmir on the North, playing its God-given role of a granary for countries of Central Asia and acting as a 'bridge of prosperity' between Central and South Asia.

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Washington DC: March 26, 2003: Ignoring protests by an assortment of "secular" political parties and organisations (and synchronized with Sunday's suspicious, nay orchestrated, Nadimarg massacre of 24 Hindu Pundits in Kashmir) the Neo-Nazi Hindutva-fundamentalist BJP (the 'other-in-law' of the RSS murderers who assassinated Mr. M. K. Gandhi in 1948) went ahead today, as is its wont, with a four-pronged rathyatra across Assam, a la Gujarat, to mobilise support for the BJP's anti/minority campaign, which targets the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act.

The raths will roll out today from the four corners of Assam - Sadiya, Jonai, Karimganj and Dhubri - from where the Assam BJP unit is all set to kick off the 'Jana Jagaran Yatra' to mobilise people against the danger posed by socalled unabated illegal migration of Muslim Bangladeshis into Eastern India. According to a report in today's (March 25, 2003) Calcutta-based English language newspaper, The Telegraph, the BJP raths will along the way, "highlight the "twin problems of infiltration and increased ISI (Pakistani intelligence) activity" in the state. See: > http://www.telegraphindia.com/archives/archive.html <

WE believe today's BJP rathyatra is a prelude to a state-sponsored pogrom which is being organised by the BJP, something we had predicted way back on May 03, 2001, in our column headlined, "India's Brahmin-Fundamentalist rulers plan to target Assamese and Bengali Muslims a la the 1984 Anti/Sikh pogroms." Please read the full article by clicking at: > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc05032001.htm <

It is a foregone conclusion that today's BJP rathyatra in Assam will draw an emotional response and maximum attention as a result of the Sunday night's senseless, cold blooded and unexplained murder of 24 Kashmiri Hindu Pundits massacred, Al Capone style, by over a dozen Kashmiri-speaking armed men in Indian army uniforms in village Nadimarg, a remote police-protected village in the south Kashmir Kulgam-Shopian belt, 70 Kilometers from Srinagar the state capital. Jammu-based newspaper, Daily Excellsior, quoting official sources on March 25, 2003, said that, "a group of 10 to 15 militants in Army fatigues descended on Nadimarg at 2230 hours last night. They described themselves as men from Rashtriya Rifles and asked the residents to assemble for a cordon-and-search operation. They also collected weapons of the 9-member Police guard which unit offered no argument or resistance. After a while, the gunmen opened indiscriminate fire on the gathering of the Pandits, who had assembled under a Chinar tree. As many as 24 died on the spot and two more escaped..." See: > http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/03mar25/index.html <

All the nine policemen on guard in the village escaping unhurt miraculously without a scratch is too much of a 'miracle' so we have checked with our sources in Indian occupied Kashmir where the Sikh community has had a presence for centuries. It turns out that the policemen were in cahoots with the assassins who were uniformed Indian army operatives riding Indian army vehicles and knew one another. State-sponsored terrorism Indian style! Ms. Barbara Crossette, a senior Editor of the New York Times and research associate at Columbia University's Southern Asian Institute who was a correspondent for seven years in India writes about the official Indian policy of covering up embarrassments with elaborate propaganda facades. In her book, "INDIA- Facing the Twenyfirst Century," she writes on page 102 about a mass rape by the Indian army in February 1991 in the Kashmiri village of Kunan Poshpora which was covered up by Governor Girish Sexena - who still rules in Kasmir as Governor - with some 'fallacious facts'. She has not commented in her book on orchestrated state-sponsored 'incidents of terrorism' similar to the March 2003 mass murder in Nadimarg and the March 2000 mass murder of Sikhs in Chitthisinghpura but has expressed her pain on the official Indian policy of trying to 'rewrite the story'.

The circumstances of the latest orchestrated outrage in Indian occupied Kashmir, described above, are eerilly similar to the March 2000, massacre of 35 Sikhs in Chitthisinghpura village by a platoon of gunmen in Indian army uniforms. That Al Capone style massacre too was synchronised with the start of President Bill Clinton's state visit to India. See Khalistan Calling dated March 21, 2000, headlined, "Fingerprints of Indian Intelligence agencies all over the Chitthisinghpura Sikh massacre" at: > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc03212000.htm < and Khalistan Calling dated April 11, 2000, headlined, "Rogue elements of Indian Agency were behind the Chitthisinghpurs Sikh massacre says Kashmir Chief minister Abdullah", > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc04112000.htm < and Khalistan Calling dated April 18, 2000, headlined, "President Clinton Condoles March 20 Chitthisinghpura Sikh massacre", > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc04182000.htm <

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by clicking on the 'SIKH CORNER" on the Front Page. It can also be seen at: > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc03262003.htm <. The above newsletter has been published in the leading Punjabi-English newspaper of the Sikh diaspora, Surrey Canada-based CHARHDI KALA, Issue of March 26-April 01, 2003 :: Vol. 19 : No. 13. Last week's Khalistan Calling is available on the Khalistan Affairs Centre website at: ( > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc03192003.htm <) The Khalistan Calling newsletter was also published in the fourth week of March 2003, in the Vancouver-based PUNJAB GUARDIAN, and Akal Guardian, Toronto-based SANJH SAVERA, Calgary-based SIKH VIRSA and numerous other Punjabi/English weekly and monthly publications which cater to the three million strong Sikh diaspora in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia.

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