Khalistan Calling newsletter dated August 14, 2002.

The following KHALISTAN CALLING newsletter has been published in the leading Punjabi-English newspaper of the Sikh diaspora, Surrey Canada-based CHARHDI KALA,- Issue of August 14-20, 2002 : Vol. 18 : No. 33. (> http://www.khalistan-affairs.org <) It was also published in the third week of August, 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. Last week's Khalistan Calling can be viewed on the Khalistan Affairs Centre web site on the internet: (> http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling08072002.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.

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India ranks 124th out of 173 countries surveyed

INDIA is 124th,

India 'leads' the world in human degradation with

863 million Indians living under the poverty line of US $. 2 a day,

with NO latrines for 700 million Indians,

with over 430 million illiterates Indians,

with over five million Indians suffering from HIV/AIDS and

with a world record 47% of its children under 5 years of age

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Washington, DC: August 14, 2002: The United Nation’s annual Human Development Report is a 'yardstick' and a comparison of human progress in various countries of the world - from the richest to the poorest. The opening lines of the first Human Development Report, published in 1990, had said that the report is about people and their happiness. It is.

Human development is the process of enlarging people’s chances, what people do and can do is their lives in pursuit of happiness. Human progress is shaped by political power and institutions. As the Overview of the 2002 report (which examines 173 countries and was released a few days ago) aptly puts it, the UN's Annual Human Development Report is about, "what it will take for countries to establish democratic governance systems that advance the human development of all people - in a world where so many are left behind." Just claiming parrot-like that, "we are the world's largest democracy, we are the world's largest democracy, we are the world's largest democracy," does not mean a thing! As a backgrounder please also see Khalistan Calling dated July 04, 2000, headlined "UN's Human Development Report-2000 released" at:> http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc07042000.htm < and Khalistan Calling dated July 17, 1999 headlined, "World's sixth Nuclear Power Ranks 132nd in UN's Human Development Report -1999", at: > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/KC071499.html <

The UN's Human Development Report-2002 is of special interest to the monotheistic Sikh, Christian and Muslim minorities in India who were abandoned to their fate when an exhausted Imperial Britain retreated, in August of 1947, from South Asia in haste, after World War II. The British abandoned these monotheistic communities in India to the mercy of polytheistical, and inherently fascist and crafty, Brahmin-caste-dominated majority which took over the instruments of state power, both democratic and coercive.

The UN's Human Development Report for the year 2002, measures human development in 173 countries in such areas as, % of literacy, % of population living below the poverty line of $. 2 per day, % of population using adequate sanitation facilities like latrines etc., % of population with access to essential drugs, number of women living with HIV/AIDS, % of under-weight children under 5 years of age etc., etc.

Despite a surge in free market economic growth in the past decade in Asia, Latin America and Africa, India (ranked 124th on the Human Development Index-2002) remains one of the world’s most backward, poor and squalidly country. This year, as in previous years, India keeps company in the Human Devepment Index (HDI) with - and in many cases ranks below - poor third world countries like Equatorial Guinea (111th), Gabon (117th), Sao Tome & Principe (119th), Guatemala (120th), Soloman Islands (121st), Namibia (122nd), Morocco (123rd), Swaziland (125th), Botswana (126th). In this latest UN's Human Development Report-2002 nuclear-armed India (which is planning to import arms worth 15 billion dollars in the next few years and has ambitions of occupying a permanent seat in any expanded UN Security Council ahead of countries like Italy, Egypt, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia et. al.,) has been placed to its eternal shame - based on its performance - just above fourth world countries like Swaziland (125th), Botswana (126th), Myanmar (127th), Zimbabwe (128th), Ghana (129th) and Cambodia (130th).

According to the UN's Human Development Report -2002 (page 158) 86.2% - yes 86.2% - of India's population (or 863 million - yes 863 million Indians) lives below the poverty line of US $. 2 a day. According to the chart on page 168 of the report only 31% of India's population has edequate sanitation facilities which means that nearly 700 million (yes 700 million) Indians have never used, or hope to use, a public or private latrine and have to go about their business every morning like stampeding animals. This figure of 700 million is an increase over the 1999 figure of 650 million Indians living without latrines. Some progress!

Over 430 million Indians are illiterate, as the report posts a 57.2 % literacy rate for India on page 151. India with a figure of 47% has the distinction, according to the HDI-2002 (page 158) of leading the world, (along with Nepal and Ethiopia) in the category of "% of infants under age 5 with low birth weight." In another category - AIDS - India broke the world record and took the crown (No. 1) in the UN Human Development Report 2000 (page 192) with over four million Indians (4,100,000) living with HIV/AIDS a higher number than any country in the world including South Africa which was number two with nearly three millions AIDS patients. Two years later the AIDS figure must be much higher. For some reason that category has been dropped and the 2002 Human Development Report on page 172 mentions another alarming figure of one and a half million sexually active (15 years to 49 years old) women in India who suffer from HIV/AIDS.

This horrible situation in the world's largest Castocracy - India - will continue to persist and India will never, not even in a hundred years, be able to shed the squalor, the misery and the lack of hope that is India unless liberal infusion of social investment takes place, and that will never happen, as long as the medieval Hindu caste system, and its morally repugnant Swastika-worshipping Brahmin caste champions, continue to misrule the roost in Delhi.

The only way Indian Occupied Sikh Punjab can prosper, reduce its unemployment, recapture its life-giving river waters, export its surplus foodgrains to the 'Stans' of Central Asia and improve the lot of its Sikh majority, their children and their children, is by saying "Good Bye" - "Sayonara" - to the squalor that is India by creating a democratic, egalitarian buffer state of Khalistan, West of the Jumna river, East of the Pakistan border, South of Kashmir and South West of Tibet China.

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