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> DATE: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:24:59
> From: Council of Khalistan <khalistan@. khalistan.com>
> Subject: When American Officials Visit India, Violence Occurs
>
> When American Officials Visit India, Violence Occurs in Kashmir
> Chithisinghpora Massacre Took Place During Clinton Visit, Now India
> Fires on Kashmir During Powell Visit
> Who Benefits?
>
> WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2001 India has begun firing on Azad
> (Free) Kashmir just as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is
> visiting. In March 2000 when former President Bill Clinton visited, 35
> Sikhs were massacred in the village of Chithisinghpora in Kashmir.
>
> It seems that violent incidents occur when U.S. officials visit India,
> said Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of the Council of Khalistan, the
> government pro tempore of Khalistan and the organization leading its
> struggle for independence. Khalistan declared its independence from
> India on October 7, 1987.
>
> When these incidents occur, you have to ask who is capable of making
> sure they happen at the time of the American officials visits and who
> benefits from them? Dr. Aulakh said. The answer is India. India can
> use its spin machine to get a propaganda advantage out of these
> incidents and try to influence U.S. policy in the region, he said.
> With Pakistan participating in the American-led coalition against
> terrorism, India needed something to tilt U.S. policy their way to gain
> support for their drive for hegemony in South Asia. He noted that
> India claims that the Kashmiris fired on them.
>
> India also claimed that Kashmiri freedom fighters were responsible for
> the Chithisinghpora massacre, Dr. Aulakh noted. Two independent
> investigations have shown otherwise.
>
> An investigation conducted jointly by the Movement Against State
> Repression (MASR) and the Punjab Human Rights Organization (PHRO) found
> that the Indian government carried out the massacre in Chithisinghpora.
> In a separate investigation, the International Human Rights Organization
> (IHRO) reached the same conclusion. Both investigations talked to every
> witness they could find. Reporter Barry Bearak, writing in the New York
> Times Magazine on December 31, 2000, also concluded that the evidence
> pointed to Indian government involvement.
>
> In addition, in June, Indian troops were caught red-handed trying to set
> fire to a Gurdwara (a Sikh temple) in Kashmir, but were stopped from
> doing so when Sikh and Muslim villagers overwhelmed them.
>
> Indias history of state terrorism is well established. In November
> 1994 the Indian newspaper Hitavada reported that the Indian government
> paid the late governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, $1.5 billion to
> organize and support covert state terrorism in Punjab, Khalistan, and in
> Kashmir. The State Department reported in 1994 that the Indian
> government paid over 41,000 cash bounties to police officers for killing
> Sikhs. The book Soft Target, written by two Canadian journalists,
> conclusively showed that the Indian government blew up its own airliner
> in 1985, killing 329 innocent people, to create the illusion of Sikh
> terrorism.
>
> These atrocities are part of Indias ongoing divide-and-rule strategy,
> Dr. Aulakh said. The aim is to set minority against minority to
> maintain and expand Indias control over all of the minorities, he
> said. This strategy is backfiring. It has brought Sikhs in Punjab,
> Khalistan and Kashmiri Muslims closer together.
>
> The breakup of India is inevitable, Dr. Aulakh said. It is not one
> country and never has been. It is a creation of British colonialism
> that is inherently unstable, he said. Soon Kashmir will be free and
> freedom for Khalistan, for Christian Nagaland, and for all the peoples
> and nations of South Asia will follow very quickly.
>
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