Khalistan Calling newsletter dated August 07, 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 07-13, 2002 : Vol. 18 : No. 32. (> http://www.khalistan-affairs.org <) It was also published in the second 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_calling/kc07312002.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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after surviving the current man-made water famine

is now about to be hit with a man-made Sutlej river flood

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Washington DC: August 07, 2002: After a painful man-made water famine for the past two/three months on both sides of the Beas river the unfortunate people of Indian-occupied Sikh Punjab better be prepaired for a man-made flood, on both sides of the Sutlej river, in the coming weeks, per kind courtesy of the anti/Sikh engineers who are incharge of the Bhakra-Beas Management Board (BBMB) who in turn are under the direct control of the Machiavellion, Hinduvta-fundamentalist, BJP government which misrules in New Delhi, India.

The man-made water-famine which has resulted in dry tubewells (because of fall in the level of groundwater without a natural recharge) continues to bring misery to the mostly Sikh farmers who live along both shores of the Beas river - and South of the Ravi river - in Indian-occupied Sikh Punjab. Over the years the Ravi river water, below the Madhopur headwork, instead of recharging the ground water has been syphoned via the Ravi-Beas link canal into the Beas river to feed canals heading into non-riparian Hindu-majority Rajasthan and Haryana states as there is no canal headwork on the river Beas and therefore this link is of no benefit to Punjab. In a diabolical parallel scheme nearly 80% of the Beas river inflow, in turn, has been syphoned, nay stolen, above the Pong dam for the past many months, and transferred into the Bhakra Nangal dam on the Sutlej river (which also supplies and stores water for canals heading into non-riparian Hindu-majority states of Haryana and Rajasthan) with the result that, that dam's water-level, despite the draught, is much higher today - close to the top - than what it was, at the same point in time, last year when the monsoons had arrived on time.

International river water experts are of the opinion that these monsoon rains if they continue in the Beas and Sutlej catchment areas in Himachal - as the monsoons will indeed continue till some time in September - they will definetly result in the nearly full Bhakra Nangal reservoir overflowing, and man-made flooding will occur in Sikh Punjab along the Sutlej river below the Bhakra Nangal dam. Please also see the July 31, 2002 Khalistan Calling, headlined, "Punjab's made-in-Delhi water famine", > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc07312002.htm > and the July 24 Khalistan Calling, headlined," No monsoon rains, but Bhakra Nangal dam is overflowing"- Times of India, > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc07242002.htm < It is no secret that the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB), on which Sikh engineeers are not allowed to serve, has been syphoning and storing most of the Beas river's inflow into the Bhakra Nangal reservoir, via syphons/tunnels near Pandoh, which act of plunder (an act against international riparian laws and norms) has caused great pain and financial loss to the Sikh farmers in upper Punjab where the underground water level which is not being recharged has gone way down.

With the Chief minister and the chief secretary gallivanting abroad, who will organize relief from man-made water-famine and who is going to organize, supervise and finance a flood relief effort for the people of Punjab, specially the poor Sikh farmers, when river Sutlej overflows its banks, a few days from now on a command from Delhi, as we have mentioned above? Readers may recall that we have reported last week, in the July 31 Khalistan Calling, that River Sutlej, despite the draught, was already flowing to the brink. > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc07312002.htm > We gave the example of villages near Annandpur Sahib and wrote that, "if it rained it was certain that Sutlej river water will enter the villages of Ballowal, Burj, Lodhipur, Gajpur, Chandpur and Hariwal, where water has already cut grooves along the banks which can lead to breaches."

In the long term the current man-made water famine and the man-made floods - which are 'brewing' in the fertile minds of the anti/Sikh BBMB engineers - should 'educate' and alert every Sikh. These events tell us that the only solution to avoid these Machiavellian man-made acts of state-sponsored 'water-terrorism' is to control our own destiny and control our water resource. This can only be done if the Sikhs have their own independent, sovereign, democratic buffer state of Khalistan, stretching from the Jumna river on the East, to the Pakistan border on the West, to Kashmir on the North and China in the North East acting as a bridge between the countries of South Asia and the 'Stans' of Central Asia. Amritsar is only 350 miles from Kabul, 650 miles from Samarkand in Uzbeckistan while Bombay is 1, 000 miles away and Calcutta is at 1, 100 miles and Chennai is located 1, 400 miles away.

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