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KHALISTAN CALLING newsletter has been published in the leading Punjabi-English newspaper of the Sikh diaspora, Surrey Canada-based
CHARHDI KALA, (Issue of March 27-April 2, 2002 : Vol. 18 : No. 13). (http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/)
It was also published in the fourth week of March, 2002, in the
Vancouver-based PUNJAB 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, Africa, Asia and Australia. It can be viewed on the Khalistan Affairs
Centre web site: (http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc03202002.htm) The Overseas Sikhs,
unlike their 20 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 Karay Ga
Khalsa; Sikhs will rule - to carve 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.
Khalistan
Calling newsletter
dated March 27,
2002.
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VAJPAYEE PLANS TO STEAL ALL OF PUNJAB'S RIVER WATER RESOURCE
INCLUDING THE SYL CANAL ON APRIL 01, 2002
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To fool the people of Punjab the crafty Pundit
calls a Chief Ministers meeting on April Fool's Day - April 01 - in Delhi
to nationalize water resources in India
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Punjab Chief minister urged to join Sirdar Simranjit Singh Mann
to resist Vajpayee & Co., and take up Delhi's challenge
BY
Dr. Amarjit
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Washington DC: March 27, 2002 : While the world celebrated WORLD WATER DAY (last Friday - March 22, 2002) with the theme "Water for development", the Indian government, instead of thinking positively how to accept the UN's help to develop and conserve water resources has, in typical fascist Brahmanical style, convened a Chief ministers meeting in New Delhi on April 01, 2002 where it will forge an agreement (a la POTO) nationalising Punjab river water source which upto now, under the Indian constitution, is a provincial (state) subject. There goes the provincial autonomy and the future of agricultural Punjab's children, their children and their children!
According to the United Nations, "A looming crisis that overshadows nearly two thirds of the Earth's population is drawing closer because of continued human mismanagement of water, population growth and changing weather patterns." Indian occupied Punjab is a very good example of that mismanagement. By 2025, if present consumption patterns continue, about five billion people will be living in areas where it will be difficult or impossible to meet all their needs for fresh water with half of them faceing severe shortages says a United Nations press release. The implications will be extreme for the people most affected, who are among the world's poorest, limiting their ability to grow crops, which they need to survive, and heightening disease.
Less than three per cent of water on Earth is fresh and most of it is in polar ice or too deep underground to reach. The amount of fresh water that is accessible, in lakes, rivers and reservoirs is less than a quarter of one per cent of the total. In the twentieth century demand for water increased six fold, more than double the rate of growth of the human population, while pollution and over-extraction in many regions of the world (like the Punjab) has reduced the ability of supplies to meet demand. Agriculture consumes about 70% of the world's available water but UN experts say where there are competing demands for water use, and groundwater sources have been depleted, small farmers are the first to lose their supply. As a consequence farmers are displaced from their land, and the landless who help them are made jobless. An increase of water borne disease also occurs.
"The key to cope with the looming crisis will be to develop improved management of water while putting into place strategies to adapt to cilmate variability" says the World Meteorological Organization, WMO. "We have to become wiser how we manage water," said Mr. M. Elbaradel, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the lead UN Organization coordinating World Water Day 2002.
In his World Water Day address the UN Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan said that, "increasingly, countries with expertise in the management of watersheds and flood-plains, or with experience in efficient irrigation, are sharing the knowledge with others." The IAEA is among UN agencies offering a wide array of responses to the crisis, providing member states with skills to apply isotope hydrology, to better manage ground water. The technique permits reliable and rapid mapping of underground water sources so that they can be used safely without being exhausted.
Water resources are often taken for granted, because for many people water comes from a well, a canal or a tap. But that is really not where it comes from. All water on Earth is part of the hydrological cycle. The sun constantly evaporates all water on Earth (lakes, rivers, seas, and oceans) into the atmosphere. Some of that water is returned as precipitation- rain or snow. While part of this precipitation evaporates back into the atmosphere, some of it drains into lakes/dams and rivers, starting the long journey back to the sea. Along the way, some will filter through the ground to become soil moisture or groundwater. It may collect in underground rivers called aquifers. Under normal conditions, groundwater works its way back into surface water, becoming the main source of river flow. Some of the soil moisture will be incorporated by plants, which will in turn release some water back to the atmosphere through transpiration. This is the hydrological cycle the UN secretary general was talking about in his last Friday's World Water Day address.
The newly elected Indian occupied Punjab (Congress party) Chief minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, instead of approaching the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) for help to map Punjab's hydrological cycle and then seeking international assistance to replenish Punjab's shrinking underground water, has issued a 'double-speak' performa statement to counter the April 01, 2002 'Brahmin ambush' setup in New Delhi by the crafty soft-spoken, but life-long fascist, Swastika-worshipping Indian Prime minister Pundit Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Just saying that, "he (Amrinder Singh) would strongly oppose nationalisation of river water sources' when he attends this New Delhi meeting on April 01, 2002, is not enough, as except for two other Chief ministers who may be interested, all the rest ( All Hindus) will not be concerned. Chief minister Captain Amrinder Singh's statement seems like the cry of a loser, a 'Nura-kushti" or shill game on the SYL canal dispute.
Does not the Punjab Chief minister realize that river water is a matter of life and death for Sikh Punjab's children, their children and their children as in many parts of Punjab the underground water has fallen out of reach? It should be obvious even to a person less educated than Captain Amrinder Singh, that the April 01 New Delhi meeting (on April Fool's Day) is an attempt to fool the Sikhs and steal the SYL canal through the backdoor. Obviously the New Delhi meeting is Act; 2 of the recent unprecedented, provocative, nay illegal, anti/Punjab 'Order' of the Brahmin-dominated Indian Supreme Court on the SYL - Sutlej-Yumuna-Link canal - dispute, which has ordered Punjab to complete the SYL canal within the year. Obviously the illegal Supreme Court order was meant to test the grit of the people of Punjab and measure the Sikh reaction. The Supreme court illegal order just hangs there like the sword of Democlese over the Sikh Homeland: Please see: <http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc02062002.htm >)
If the Punjab Chief minister is a Sikh, and a martial Punjabi as he trumpets with his title of "Captain" (which he prefers to use over the more respectable 'Sirdar') he should pick up the gauntlet like a man - like his cousin Sirdar Simranjit Singh Mann for example - and start a state-wide agitation on the SYL canal dispute, in which every Punjabi including the 3 million strong Sikh diaspora should, and will, join before it is too late.
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ZINDABAD :
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