Sikh Children's Camps to Commemorate 1984

It is of the utmost importance that the future generation learn about the events of June and November 1984. Till this day there is no memorial for the thousands of victims (Sikh Halocaust). We must remember them each and every year.

Dear Jakara rep, I fail to understand that you are concentrating talking about 1984 and say that you are not even going to bring jarnail Singh in picture. How is that? How can you not talk about the destruction of Golden Temple without having the main character in the drama. How can you not talk about bunkerization of entire complex. How can you not talk about the bigoted utterances of Jarnail Singh. Also i just saw on the internet that Jakara launched two scholarships for high school students and a college student in the name of Bhai Amrik Singh, follower of Bhindrawala and who died in the operation bluestar. What kind of role model we are making out of this dude who destroyed the only Sikh body- All India Sikh Students Federation- by making into an armed militant group. This was the breeding ground for Sikh young political leaders which produced almost all the active leaders in the last 50 years. ANyone who is well known has been a member of AISSF. What did this non student leader of AISSSF that he converted into a armed group which took responsibility of blowing up of 35 railway stations in April 84. This is well known that the plan to blow up these structures was done under his presence and on top of AKal Takhat. What is his contribution in education? What did he do to inspire Sikh young people and to what action. Dying in a head on collision and creating a massive collateral damage is no bravery. Living for your ideas is more difficult and persuading masses to your thinking is really brave. I hope Jakara people will do some introspection and not hide behind facts. They need to admit that they are treading on a slippery slope which is one day will lead them in a ditch along with innocent fresh minds that they are trying to alter.

1984. Let's revisit that historic year in Sikh history. The Indian Army stormed the Golden Temple on the martrydom day of Guru Arjan Dev Ji. What should and could have been a professional military operation was a diabolical event.....done on a day when the holiest Sikh shrine in the world would be packed with pilgrims. The timing was deliberate..... There enough CID and moles inside of Punjab at the time to have known and relayed that this would be a day of celebration for the Sikhs the Temple would be jam-packed. Out of 5,000 people, only 50 people were militants. Less than 100 people survived the attack. You would have thought that with a professional military carrying an acute assignment, that at least half the people would survive? Or how about 1/4th of the people? Hundreds of survivors were tied with their hand behind their backs. Old people, and children included. They were shot in the backs of their heads, execution style. This is not opinion. This is fact - like it or not, believe it or not.....it happened. The real atrocities were committed after the attack was over, when survivors, mostly pilgrims, were murdered.....by soldiers. They did not spare children.....Some members of Sikhnet are not even old enough to remember what 1984 felt like as a Sikh. I do. I will never forget. The Delhi Riots.....were not riots. Riots are when things are out of control....things were in control. Congress Pary organizers sent buses and trucks out to surrounding rural villages to round up youth to bring into the city of Delhi.....paid them to kill all Sikhs on sight. The rioters arrived in Delhi on government vehicles.....with police escorts. The Sikh members of the Delhi Police were quarantined and disarmed.....all Sikhs who were registered gun owners were visited by Police and disarmed.......for their own "safety". Sikh homes were available on municipal maps which the police had and used to lead rioters to Sikh homes. In many cases, houses were searched for weapons, swords and sticks were confiscated and then the rioters were "unleashed" with the supervision of the Police. Gurudwaras were searched and disarmed. Sikhs were not allowed to gather in one place so that a good defense could not be built. The army was prohibited from entering Delhi for three days even though Delhi was on fire....Sikh women were raped in front of their children....Their husbands and sons beaten and then burned to death, mostly with a tire around their neck and kerosene.....When the rioters ran out of gasoline, the Police allowed them to siphon gas from their Jeeps. In 72 hours, 10,000 innocent Sikhs were burned to death in the streets of Delhi. Thousands more raped and injured.....Hundreds of children and their body parts lay on the streets of Delhi.....While Rajiv Gandhi justifies it and endorses this by saying "when a big tree falls, the Earth shakes". Let us never forget 1984. I know the Sikhs of Delhi have not. In fact, in every other Sikh house in Delhi, there are guns and rifles - legal or not. They learned the lesson of being unarmed and will never make that same mistake again. This time, if rioters did come, it would be a different story. The cops and rioters would be killed. My Uncle, who survived the riots, has two swords (not ceremonial).....heavy swords.....one revolver and one shotgun. If the cops ever came to his door to disarm him, the cop better being wearing a turban. Sikhs will never be disarmed again after 1984. Let us never forget 1984. All the people who were martyred deserve better from us. We owe them the respect of not ever forgetting what happened. It is not OK and never will be OK. We squeal like pigs for justice yet nobody listens to us in India or abroad.....as if the value of a Sikh life is not as valuable as others. You know what, you would have to a victim or know someone who was to have the passion I do ..... Some of you will never understand what it means to be a Sikh in 1984.

Jakara Movement looks like is trying to educate about 1984. What is the intention here? To create Sikh Extremists? To create Future Sikh leaders who would become leaders of America or American Bhindrawla? Would they educate them ever how every immigrant comminity is involved and creating their impact in American scene? How Sikh young people are being brainwashed by groups like Jakara, SRI Institute and UNited Sikhs where Bhindrawla is being presented as the greatest messiah of the Sikhi. How Sikhs are the greatest victims of this planet. I wonder whether they will be honest bout the caused of 84 violence in Golden temple? Will they talk about how Bhindrawala came in the scene and how he was planted? How Dal Khalsa was created by Congress? How they hijacked the plane to create bigger than life size of Bhindrawla so nobody can challenge him? HOw he and his followers created violent atmonsphere in Golden temple killing or threatening their opponents? How Babbar Khalsa challenged Bhindra's hegemony and he shifted to Akal takhat and later fortified the entire Harmander Complex. Sandbags and pigeon holes were created to fight any opposing forces? How people were killed daily? How Manjit Singh and Other Bhindrawla followeres hatched the scheme openly over Akal Takhat to blow up 35 railway stations ( open secret)? Will they tell kids that Bhindrawala threatened to kill 5000 Hindus if police would not let his two buses go or Sikhs can easily take care of 35 hindus. Now we want to talk about only what indira did to us but not want to talk about what our goons did to attract this onslaught on the community. 84 Massacres in Delhi was the most heinous crime against Sikhs. We want them to punish the guilty and apoligize. Good expectations. But what bout our responsibility in correct assesment of history and condemn what our people did to have this brought on the entire community. I wonder whether Sikh parents want their kids to become victims of this propaganda or brain washing or they would take the responsibility to educate their own kids about Sikh history without any political tint. May Sikh youth liberate themselves from these propaganda machines of Khalistan groups and concentrate on going ahead in life with positive outlook.