Khalistan Calling
newsletter dated August 28, 2002.The following KHALISTAN CALLING newsletter has been published in the leading Punjabi-
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Veerappan strikes again - kidnaps an ex-minister
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Veerappan
the murderer/smuggler ridiculesthe impotent & corrupt Indian state
- that never was and never will be -
for the 25th time since July 1987
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We Sikhs want no part of this sick and corrupt Indian Castocracy -
Our goal is KHALISTAN
BY
Dr. Amarjit Singh
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Washington DC: August 28, 2002
:The notorious Indian 'terrorist', nay brigand nay murderer/smuggler/kidnapper, Veerappan, who has been on the loose since July of 1987 and has had the chutzpah of murdering and kidnapping bureaucrats, movie stars and police officials in southern India, has struck again yesterday in Karnataka state, not far from the high-tech Indian city of Bangalore (frequented by many IT savvy foreigners, mostly Americans) and has kidnapped, a former minister, one H. Nagappa to the Indian Castocracy's eternal shame.By his brazen act Veerappan, the infamous brigand, has for the twentyfourth time, since 1987, put a 'thumb into the eye' of the impotent Indian government, and ridiculed its governance which was described recently (August 14, 2002) in the
New York Times, by the renowned columnist/author, Thomas Friedman, as a great "democracy where freedom reighn's". Mr. Thomas Friedman was naive enough to portray, after a short visit, the chaotic/corrupt Brahmin-caste-run Indian Castocracy as a 'miracle with a message', which the New York Times columnist naively suggested is worthy of emulation as a role model by the third world in general and nearly five dozen Muslim states worldwide in particular. Emulate what? The 'freedom' enjoyed by a murderer/robber/smuggler/terrorist like Veerappan. What miracle? What Democracy? What freedom? See the August 21, 2002 Khalistan Calling, on the internet, headlined, "Reply to Thomas Friedman of New York Times" at:> http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc08212002.htm <According to a front page story in India's leading English language newspaper, THE HINDU, the brigand/murderer Veerappan, struck exactly two years after his July 2000 abduction of the Kannada movie matinee idol, Rajkumar, when he kidnapped last Sunday - August 25, 2002 - the former Karnataka minister of State for Agriculture Marketing, H. Nagappa, from the ex-minister's guarded residence in Hanur Police Station limits. According to eye witnesses, Verappan, who sports a foot long bushy moustache (a la the 19th century devotees of the Thugee cult which was hunted down and quashed by the British Colonials) accompanied by eight of his armed associates, 'came to the residence of the former minister at Kamagere, about 90 kilometers from Mysore, and banged at the door'. According to a Banglore datelined report in the Times of India, Veerappan the brigand left an audio cassette as a momento, with the abducted ex-ministers friend before disappearing with his prey. In the audio cassette Veerappan has threatened to murder ex-minister Nagappa if the government mounted an operation against the abductor to locate him. He has also promised to deliver another cassette with his demands.
To save 'face' the Director General of Karnataka police, V. V. Bhaskar, told the Times of India newspaper, that forty platoons (30 men in each platoon) of reserve police have started combing the area. Interestingly the police/army have been combing the area since July 1987 when Veerappan first kidnapped a Tamil Nadu forest officer and later lynched the man as the victim had previously interefered with the robbers sandalwood smuggling operation.
Yesterday (August 26, 2002) even India's leading English newspaper, The Times of India,(>
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=20248380 <) has taken notice and has paid a left-handed tribute to Veerappan the terrorist and ridiculed the authority and inactivity of the Indian state, with a Coimbatore datelined report, headlined,"Events that make Veerappan notorious". It lists to India's - and the 2 million strong Indian Army's - eternal shame and everybody's disgust the following events due to which, the newspaper claims, Veerappan has "gained notriety and now monopolises forest areas in the three Indian states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala" in South India:-July 1987: A Tamil Nadu forest officer Chidambaram was kidnapped and lynched.
Jan 1989: Five members of rival gang were kidnapped and killed.
Aug 1989: Three forest personnel of Begur forest range of Tamil Nadu killed. Their mutilated bodies were recovered 19 days later.
Jan 1990: A sub-inspector and a head constable were shot by Veerappan gang, following gunning down of two of his members by Tamil Nadu police.
April 1990: In a first direct attack, Veerappan ambushed and mowed down three sub-inspectors, and a constable, including Dinesh, an officer, who had been 'hot on his trial'.
May 1990: Constituted Special Task force to nab the poacher.
Nov 1990: Shot and beheaded a deputy conservator of forest R Srinivas.
Feb 20 1992: Son of a granite quarry owner kidnapped in Karnataka and Rs 1 crore ransom demanded. Quarry owner paid Rs 15 lakh as ransom.
May 20 1992: Swooped down on Ramapura police station, killing policemen and taking away a cache of arms.
June 15 1992: STF killed four of Veerappan's gang in Nellur village. Veerappan sent a note saying "I will finish all of you".
Aug 14 1992: Veerappan trapped STF SP Harikrishna and 27 police personnel. Bombed Harikrishna, Ahmed and four others.
April 1993: A bus carrying Tamil Nadu police personnel was blown up near Palar in a landmine blast, killing 22 persons, including civilians. S P 'Rambo' Gopalakrishna was hurt in the attack.
May 1993: Attacked Karnataka SP Gopal Hosur and party at M M hills, killing six policemen.
Jul 1993: BSF began operations in the forest area, nabbed 19 members of the gang.
Aug 1993: Series of encounters with BSF and Veerappan gang claimed lives of 18 gang members and three policemen. Few months later, Veerappan sent an audio cassette, seeking amnesty.
December 1994: DSP, Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Chidambaranathan, and two companions kidnapped from Coimbatore district. They escape on Dec 31 after 27 days under the cover of STF onslaught. Veerappan's brother, Arjunan and two gang members Ayyadurai and Rangaswamy, surrender.
Nov 1995: Three forest officials kidnapped in Anthiyur forest in Erode. Ransom of Rs.five crore sought. Twenty days later, hostages set free after Rs.3.5 lakh was paid unofficially.
Dec 1995: Veerappan attacks TN STF. Two personnel killed. The attack was in retaliation to the death of Arjunan and Rangaswamy in STF custody.
Jan 1996: Attack on Tamil Nadu SP, Tamil Selvan and Party, killing a constable and injuring the SP
Apr 1997: After a lull of nearly one year, the bullet ridden body of his heir apparent 'baby' Veerappan was discovered from the forest.
Jul 1997: 10 forest personnel kidnapped. One sent back with a surrender offer on a cassette.
Aug 5, 1997: Another hostage reached Chennai with the Tamil magazine Nakkeeran editor R R Gopal. Others released later.
Dec 21'98 Veerappan and gang attacked Vellituurpur police station in TN, decamped with nine guns, ammunition. After this major operations, Veerappan, with reduced strength of his supporters lay low and sought amnesty and held negotiations with Tamil Nadu government.
April 28, 1999 Another major attack - three forest officials were kidnapped near Hogenekkal in TN's Dharmapuri District sent letters and audio cassette sent to the district Collector.
July 2000: Kannada matinee idol Rajkumar and four others, kidnapped from Doddagajanur guest house on July 30.
We respectfully ask Mr. Thomas Freidman of the New York Times again, is it not shameful that a criminal who has killed over a hundred people and looted at will is still free to commit crimes, after a 17 year-long crime spree, and the police forces of three Indian States, and a two million strong Indian army equipped with state-of-the-art weapons, are unable to get at him even after decades of search operations? The mythology that has grown around the smuggler/murderer/terrorist during the last fifteen years is fed by the inability of the governments to make even reasonable progress in the efforts to nab him and bring him to justice. Hundreds of millions of rupees of tax payers’ money have been expended on these efforts and who is accountable for the wastage which money could have been used for human development in which field India stands - to its eternal shame - at 124th out of 173 countries surveyed by the UN? No arguments like political involvement, local support, the brigand’s genius for evasion or any other excuse can wash away the stigma that attaches to the governments of India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala for their collective failure!In reality it is a plain and simple case of the inability of a corrupt and unjust State (described by New York Times columnist Thomas Freidman, perhaps naively, as a 'Democracy with a message where freedom reighns') with its vast human and material resources, to capture an outlaw who is a serious and dangerous threat to life as well as law and order and authority of the state. Veerappan is a terrible and demeaning symbol of a failing state which never was and never will be - India - and is an insulting question mark of the viability and longevity of the Indian State currently under fascist misrule of the Swastika-worshipping BJP combine.
The readers of one of the world's greatest newspapers, The New York Times, should not, we believe, be condemned into reading and believing naive opinions which describe the Indian Thugocracy/Castocracy as a miracle, a democratic Shangrila 'where freedom reigns'. Some freedom, some democracy where murderers like Veerappan roam scot free to kill and plunder at will! See Thomas Friedman's August 14, 2002 column in the New York Times at: >
< http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/14/opinion/14FRIE.html?tntemail1=&pagewanted=print&position=top >We Sikhs, a nation of 23 million (20 million captive in India and 3 million free in the diaspora), who cherish our freedom and egalitarianism and want to live FREE in a democratic Sikh buffer state of Khalistan - stretching from the Jumna river to the Pakistan border - have always known that the great Mr. Winston Churchil was right when he predicted in a British parliament debate in the 1930's that the British Empire, by "handing over power to the Hindus would reduce India to the deepeest depths of Oriental tyranny and despotism". The Veerappan episode is an example of the mess that is India and is an example of its decline and fall!
Some democracy! Some freedom! Some state! We Sikhs want no part of it.Khalistan Zindabad
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