LET 2014 BRING FREEDOM TO THE SIKH NATION: DR.GURMIT SINGH AULAKH, PRESIDENT COUNCIL OF KHALISTAN

LET 2014 BRING FREEDOM TO THE SIKH NATION: 

DR.GURMIT SINGH AULAKH, PRESIDENT COUNCIL OF KHALISTAN

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December 6, 2013

NEW YEAR MESSAGE TO THE KHALSA PANTH

Let 2014 Bring Freedom to the Sikh Nation

May Guru Bless the Khalsa Panth in 2014

With Freedom, Happiness, Honor, Dignity, and Prosperity

Liberating Khalistan Must Be Focus of New Year

Dear Khalsa Ji:

WAHEGURUJI KA KHALSA, WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH!

Please let me take this opportunity to wish a Happy New Year to you and your family and the Khalsa Panth.  May 2014 be your best year yet.  I wish you an abundance of health, joy, and prosperity.

Freedom is a basic right of all peoples and nations.  The flame of freedom continues to burn brightly in the heart of the Sikh Nation.  No force can suppress it.  Guru Gobind Singh blessed the Khalsa Panth, saying “In grieb Sikhin ko deon Patshahi.”(“I bless the Sikh nation with sovereignty.”) The Sikh Nation must dedicate this year to working hard to achieve that goal. Self-determination is the right of all peoples and nations and self-determination is the essence of democracy.  

James Madison, the primary author of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth President of the United States, warned of the “tyranny of the majority.”  That is why the U.S. Constitution has strong protections for minority and individual rights and a republican, decentralized governmental structure.  India, the self-proclaimed “world’s largest democracy,” is proof that Madison was absolutely right.   Without effective protection for individual rights and those of communities and states, the majority runs roughshod over the rights, interests, and lives of the minorities.  India routinely does this to Sikhs, Christians, Muslims, and other minorities. It is not a true democracy.

The time to free Khalistan is now. I urge you to support only leaders who are publicly supporting a free and independent Khalistan.  Please take this chance to liberate Khalistan.  Recently, former Member of Parliament Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann held a conference in Naushera Panuan in the Tarn Taran district.  Over 100,000 Sikhs attended.  They raised slogans of Khalistan Zindabad in Punjabi and English.   Sardar Mann is on record saying, “The only solution to the Punjab and Sikh problem isan independent Khalistan.   “The establishment of Khalistan is of the utmost importance.  To keep peace in South Asia, a buffer state of Khalistan is essential.”  He is right.  In the Washington, DC area recently, I was a speaker, along with several supporters of the Akali Dal(Mann), at a pro-Khalistan conference held by Dr. Paramjit Singh Ajrawat.  Slogans of “Khalistan Zindabad” were raised.  Both of these events show that the Sikh Nation will not be intimidated and we will continue to work to liberate Khalistan from Indian repression. Khalistan declared its independence from India on October 7, 1987.  Sikhs must be allowed to have a free and fair plebiscite on the issue of Khalistan. Ina democracy, you cannot continue to rule against the wishes of the people. 

Neither the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal)nor the Congress Party can be acceptable to any true Sikh.  Badal maintains a political alliance with the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the political arm of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), which openly wants to destroy the Sikh religion and all other non-Hindu religions.  But the Congress Party is no better.  It was the party that is guilty of attacking the Golden Temple in June 1984, in which India murdered over 20,000 Sikhs including Sant Bhindranwale, General Shabeg Singh, Bhai Amrik Singh, over 100 Sikh youth ages 8 to 13, and others.  Both of those parties want to destroy the Sikh religion and other minorities, including Christians, Muslims, and others.  They are not worthy of your support.  Support only those who are working for Khalistan.

Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale said thatif India attacked the Golden Temple; it would lay the foundation for Khalistan.  He was right.  After the June 1984 attack, the movement for Khalistan was energized.  The Indian troops burned the Sikh library, destroyed Hukam Namas and other historical documents, and took many other items which are the property of the Khalsa Panth.To this day, those items have not been returned. 

A set of two books entitled U.S. Congress on the Sikh Struggle for Khalistan has recently been published.  These volumes contain all the statements by Members of the United States Congress on Khalistan and the repression of the Sikhs.  It is an essential resource to counteract India’s effort to change the history of the Sikh Nation and wipe Sikhism off the face of the Earth.These crucial volumes can be purchased for $100 (plus $10 for shipping and handling) from the International Sikh Organization, 730 24^th St., #310,Washington, DC 20037 or by telephone at (202) 337-1904.  Please specify the address to which the books should be sent.  These volumes should be in every Gurdwara, in every public library, in every college and university library.  Please purchase copies to donate to them.

Since November 14, Gurbaksh Singh has been on a hunger strike to achieve the freedom of political prisoners who have been detained after the expiration of their sentences.  A group of 40-50 police dressed as Gursikhs, some of them obviously drunk, came to pick up Gurbaksh Singh.  He is now in Ropar jail, charged with attempted suicide and illegal assembly. Since when is it illegal in a democracy to assemble? Since his abduction, two more Sikhs have taken up his fast.  This is further evidence of the commitment of the Sikh Nation to secure freedom and end the repression of our people.

Sikhs have suffered too much already under the yoke of Indian persecution since independence, especially over the past 30 years.  We have seen the attack on the Golden Temple, over 250,000 Sikhs murdered and over 52,000 held as political prisoners, the murder of the Akal Takht Jathedar, more than 50,000 Sikh youth tortured, murdered, then declared unidentified and secretly cremated, their bodies never returned to their families.  Their families continue to suffer.  It has been said that “where there is no vision, the people perish.”  Let us find the vision to throw off this repression. With that vision, the Sikh Nation will flourish; without it, we will perish and India’s effort to eradicate Sikhism will succeed.  The sooner we can liberate Khalistan, the better. 

Sikhs are NOT Hindus.  The Sikh religion was established by Guru Nanak. It has ten Gurus.  The last guru,Guru Gobind Singh, gave Guruship permanently to the Guru Granth Sahib.  Sikhs don’t believe in the caste system; Hindus do. The caste system is essential to Hinduism.  Hindus don’t believe in equality.  Sikhs believe all people are equal, including gender equality.  Hindus believe women are inferior.  Thus, Sikhs can’t be Hindus.  At age 5, Guru Nanak refused to wear the Hindu ceremonial thread, the Jannau.  Sikhism is the youngest religion in the world and its fifth largest.  Hindus claim that Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism are all branches of Hinduism.  None of them is.  I am surprised they didn't claim Christianity is a branch of Hinduism too.  If Sikhs,Buddhists, Jains, and others are part of Hinduism, why are the Hindus killing and persecuting them?  Guru Nanak and Buddha were from Hindu families.  Jesus was from a Jewish family. Does that make Christianity a part of Judaism?

I appeal to Dalit Sikhs to join the Sikhs who are fighting for Khalistan and take a leading role.  You are the sons of Guru Gobind Singh (“Rangrete Guru Ke Bete.”)  Other Sikhs are followers of Guru Gobind Singh.  It is time for all the sons of the Guru to be involved in freeing the Sikh Nation.

Let us dedicate our energy this year to achieving the establishment of Khalistan. Any organization that sincerely supports Khalistan deserves the support of the Sikh Nation.  None has worked harder for that cause than this office and this office needs your support.  When Khalistan is free, Sikhs can resolve all issues in a way that benefits the Khalsa Panth. Remember the words of former Jathedar of the Akal Takht ProfessorDarshan Singh: “If a Sikh is not a Khalistani, he is not a Sikh.”  There is no place for Sikhs in supposedly secular, supposedly democratic India.  In a free Khalistan, minorities will have equal rights and all will be respected.  Khalistan is the only way that Sikhs will be able to live in freedom, peace, prosperity, and dignity.  Let that be the mission of 2014.

India is not a single country.  It is a polyglot of many nations thrown together by the British colonialists for their administrative convenience.  It has 18 official languages.  History shows that such countries do not long endure.  Austria-Hungary, as well as India’s allies the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia are some examples.  The breakup of India is inevitable.  We pray that it will be peaceful like the breakup of Czechoslovakia and not violent like that of Yugoslavia.

Let us work to make certain that 2014 is  the Sikh Nation’s most blessed year by making sure it is the year that we shake ourselves loose from the yoke of Indian oppression and liberate our Homeland, Khalistan, so that all Sikhs may live lives of prosperity, freedom, and dignity.  Now it is up to us.  Do not waste this opportunity.

May Guru bless the Khalsa Panth.