President Clinton Condoles the March 20 ‘BLOODY MONDAY’ Chattisingpora Massacre of Sikhs in Indian

President Clinton Condoles the March 20 ‘BLOODY MONDAY’ Chattisingpora Massacre of Sikhs in Indian – Held Kashmir.

Indian media deliberately misquotes President Clinton’s April 14^th remarks with style of Indian dezinformatsiya.

By Dr. Amarjit Singh, Spokesman Panthic Committee, www.khalistan-affairs.org , k_affairs@hotmail.com

Washington, DC: April 18,2000: President Bill Clinton speaking at a reception in Atlanta (Georgia) for US representative Cynthia McKinney (D-4^th-GA), on Friday 14,2000, described the BLACK MONDAY (March 20, 2000) Chattisinghpora massacre of innocent Sikhs in Indian –held Kashmir as; "the most heartbreaking thing that happened on my trip to the (South Asian) subcontinent."

According to the White House transcript of the event ("Remarks by US president Bill Clinton at a reception for US representative Cynthia McKinney – Private Residence, Atlanta, Georgia, 1:40pm. EDT, released by the office of the Press secretary on April 14, 2000) President Clinton went on to say, and we quote verbatim that; "And I am sure they were murdered because I was there. Those people lost their lives because I went to India and to Pakistan. And people who don’t want their turmoil to be eased used my trip as a pretext to highlight the difficulties. And turmoil to be eased used my trip there as a pretext to highlight my difficulties. And somebody, we don’t know who, killed the 40 perfectly innocent people."

WE SIKHS KNOW, AND THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS, THAT THE INDIAN ARMY KILLED THE 40 INNOCENT KASHMIRI SIKHS, MR. PRESIDENT, SO SHOULD THE US ADMINISTRATION !

Every member of the 21 million strong Sikh nation (3 million FREE in the diaspora and 18 million captive in India - half million Sikh American Community) will, we are sure, thank and salute President Bill Clinton for the condolement, perception and his kind words of sympathy for the innocent Sikh victims of the Indian army’s BLACK MONDAY (March 20) Chattisinghpora massacre in Kashmir and the five Muslim Kashmiri victims murdered in cold blood on March 25^th at Panchalathan. Thank you Mr. President your concern is very much appreciated.

The readers may recall that this column (Khalistan Calling Published in the Sikh/Canadian Weekly Chardhi Kala of March 29, 2000. Vol. 16 No. 12) had demanded a White Paper from the US Administration on the March 20 Chattisinghpora Sikh massacre which dastardly deed, we believe, was orchestrated by the Indian occupation army, (after receiving a ‘wink and a nod’ from the morally repugnant Indian police minister L.K. Advani) and was arranged to synchronize with the start of President Clinton’s visit to India on March 20, 2000 to dampen the American President’s desire to cut the Kashmir ‘Gordian knot’. The United States, whether it likes it or not, stands ‘involved’, in the double tragedy, (40 innocents murdered) thanks to the morally repugnant Brahmin-Fundamentalist swastika-worshipping Indian Regime.

Although nearly a month has gonesice the massacre but nothing has happened. We urge the US Administration to occupy the high moral ground by issuing a white paper on the Chattisinghpora massacre in which 35 Sikhs were murdered in cold blood followed by the murder of five innocent Muslim Kashmiri civilians, on March 25. The Indian army had claimed that these five were militants responsible for the Chattisinghpora Sikh massacre. According to the April 13 issue of India’s leading English newspaper, The Times of India, the chief judicial magistrate, Srinagar, had after an inquiry directed the police chief at Anantnag, to formally register murder cases against the Indian army and the SOG (Special Operations Group), for the March 25 murder of the five Kashmiri civilians mentioned above.

An interesting development in this matter has been the actions of the Washington correspondents of the Indian media who proved the truth of the famous "Duck test" invented by a US Law-maker ("When it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and looks like a duck, it is a duck") by misquoting President Clinton’s April 14 Atlanta remarks. These correspondents in Washington DC, (the Press Trust of India’s TV Parasuram, the United News of India’s C.K. Arora and Hindu’s Sridhar Krishnaswami) deliberately and dishonestly like their counterparts in India- misquoted President Bill Clinton’s April 14 remarks reported above, in which he mentioned the massacre of "40 perfectly innocent people" in Kashmir. Nearly all the Indian newspapers changed the figure to 35. It is obvious why? See our reports on President Clinton’s April 14 Atlanta remarks in India’s leading English language newspapers of April 16, 2000- Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu et.al.

The Indian journalists (and their ‘fundo’ rulers) have obviously forgotten the wise words of the famous Roman poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius (1^st century B.C.) that; "Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on them from whom they begin." They have also forgotten the reply a key witness for the persecution gave to a question in the famous Indira Gandhi murder case in the 1980’s. When asked as to why he didn’t report to higher authority when he heard the two accused Sikhs discuss about the fate of Indira Gandhi? He replied that; "There was nothing to report. The whole world knew that the Sikhs would take revenge, no matter what!

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