What kind of spectacular protest will Dalai Lama & Co., mount in Delhi on April 17 when the Olympic Torch is scheduled to pass through?
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - The lingering sad memory of the 10, 000 innocent Sikh men, women and children who were murdered in Delhi, during the horrific state-sponsored November 1984 bloody pogrom, is the raison d`etre for the Open Letter advocacy appeal appended below. It is addressed to His Excellency Mr. Zhou Wenzhong, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States. The appeal appeared today (April 9) in the Op-Ed page of the Washington Times newspaper. Memory is the diary that we Sikhs carry about with us. “Human blood is heavy; the men that have shed it cannot run away,” says an African proverb.After reading the Open Letter advocacy appeal, readers will recall that our column of March 26, 2008, headlined, “Tibetan ‘hawks’ might ‘ambush’ the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch relay when it passes through Delhi on April 17,” had exposed the machinations of the Indian government. How it organized a two-day (> /home/khalistancalling/2008/march26.aspx <) 'Conference for an Independent Tibet' from June 23-24, 2007, in New Delhi, India, (more than a year before the Beijing August 2008 Olympiad) at the Gandhi Peace Foundation, which planted the seeds for the worldwide anti-China protests being witnessed on our TV sets today. Following the ‘Independent Tibet’ conference in Delhi last year (in 2007) the Indian government increased its overt annual stipend to the Dalai Lama from twenty million (two crore) rupees to seventy million (7 crore) rupees. At about the same time, scuttlebutt in Delhi, according to our reliable sources, has it, that covert financial help to the Dalai Lama, channeled through Indian Intelligence agencies, has ballooned to seven hundred million (70 crore) rupees during the current year – the year of the Olympic games in Beijing.
Synchronized with the increase in Indian financial help to the Dalai Lama, India’s Ministry of External Affairs also took another step, this year, of upgrading its relationship with the Tibetan government-in-exile, by institutionalizing an annual engagement between the Indian Foreign Secretary and the Dalai Lama. India’s External Affairs ministry also quietly upgraded its relationship with the Dalai Lama-led Tibetan government-in-exile based in Dharamsala (Mcleodganj) in Himachel Pradesh, India. This year a senior Director-level (Ambassador-level) officer of the Ministry of External Affairs, one Thanglura Darlong, was posted to head that ministry’s liaison office (embassy?) in Dharamsala (Mcleodganj) instead of an officer of under-secretary level as in the past. According to our source in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, India’s diplomatic missions, in various countries, were instructed late last year to facilitate, and covertly support, any Tibetan protests against China that might take place.
The question that comes to mind is that, what tactics will the Dalai Lama & Co., in cahoots with Indian Intelligence agencies, use to mount a ‘spectacular’ protest in front of TV cameras on the arrival of the Olympic Torch in Delhi on April 17? In this age of the Tamil suicide bomber, and history of Vietnamese monks, in the 1970’s, committing suicide on roads by lighting a march after pouring gasoline on themselves, could easily induce a ‘brain-washed’ Tibetan monk, in India, to act crazy likewise, on April 17, in Delhi!
It is obvious from the ‘body language’ of the ‘Babus’ (officials), in the Indian Foreign Office and Indian Embassies abroad, that the script of their double-faced China and Tibet policy, was written by a former Foreign Secretary, Kanwal Sibal, whose presciently article appeared in India’s prestigious English language News Magazine OUTLOOK on April 7, 2008. The article is headlined, “Tibet Is Our Best Card To Settle Borders With China. Unless shaken, Beijing will have no incentive to deal with the issue.” (> http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20080407&fname=Col+Vinod+%28F%29&sid=2 <)
An urgent Appeal addressed to
His Excellency Mr. Zhou Wenzhong,
Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the
United States
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A call to reroute the
Olympic Torch Relay away from Delhi, India, the infamous site
of the November 1984 state-sponsored massacre of
10, 000 innocent Sikh men, women & children
Respected Ambassador:
On behalf of the half million Sikh-Americans, we wish to submit the following for your kind consideration:
The Olympic torch is scheduled to pass through the streets of Delhi, on April 17, 2008, during its 130-day worldwide ‘journey of harmony’. Its presence there will trample on the sad memory of the brutal killings of over ten thousand fellow Sikhs on the same streets of Delhi, which took place during the November 1984 state-sponsored bloody pogrom. That was an act of state terror, let loose with a ‘wink and a nod’, by none other than, the then Indian Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
In the past twenty four years Delhi has seen a dozen governments (from Rajiv Gandhi to Manmohan Singh) come and go, but no one has been found guilty, nobody has been punished, for the heinous November 1984 crime. This, despite the fact that it is common knowledge that for three days – November 1 to 3, 1984 -- Hindu mobs, organized and led by prominent ruling Congress party leaders and RSS thugs, rampaged from house to house on the streets of Delhi, burning alive and murdering innocent Sikh men, women and children in the thousands. The then Rajiv Gandhi government, in Delhi, in cahoots with the judiciary and the media, chose to look the other way. The great Chinese people having endured a similar bloody pogrom during the ‘Nanking Massacre’, of December 13, 1937, will surely relate and empathize with the anguish of the world’s 26 million Sikhs – 3 million free and prosperous in the Diaspora and 23 million living unhappily in India.
Our urgent appeal to the Chinese government and people is simple. We respectfully urge you Sir, as their representative, to take immediate steps to deny the infamous city of Delhi the honor of hosting the Olympic Torch relay through its streets stained, as they are, with the blood of 10, 000 innocent Sikhs.
Sponsored by the following Sikh Gurdwaras and Organizations:-
1. Sikh Gurdwara, San Jose CA 2. Gurdwara Sahib, Bradshaw Rd, Sacramento CA 3. Guru Nanak Sikh Society, Washington Rd. Yuba city CA 4. Gurdwara Sahib, Fremont CA 5.Gurdwara Pacific Coast, Khalsa Diwan Society, Stockton CA 6. Siri Guru Singh Sabha, Walnut CA 7. Sikh Religious Society of Palatine, Chicago IL 8. Singh Sabha of Michigan, Canton MI 9. Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Kalamazoo MI 10. Sikh Gurdwara of Greater Washington, VA 11. Gurdwara Singh Sabha of N Texas, Dallas TX 12. Sikh Center of Gulf Coast, Houston TX 13. Gurdwara Singh Sabha of Washington, WA NY, NJ & PA Gurdwaras:- 14. Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Bridgewater NJ 15. Gurdwara Sahib Khalsa Darbar, Burlongton NJ 16. Guru Nanak Sikh Society of Delaware Valley, Deptford NJ 17. Gurdwara Baba Makhan Shah Lubana Sikh Center, NY 18. Sikh Association of Staten Island, NY 19. Sikh Cultural Society, Richmond Hill 20. Sikh Center, Flushing 21. Sikh Center Bowne street 22. Sant Sagar 23. 222 St.Queen Village 24. Dashmesh Darbar Cartret 25. Singh Sabha Cartret 26. Glen Rock 27. Burlington Khalsa Darbar 28. Philadelphia Sikh Society, PA Sikh Organizations: 29. Sikh Youth of America 30. Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar (America Region) 31.Voices for Freedom 32. Sikhs for Justice 33. Baba Sangat Singh Sikh Society 34. Dal Khalsa USA Unit.
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