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Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) announced that it will submit a memorandum to the Secretary General of UN on July 25, demanding intervention of the UN as per Resolution 62-149 of 2008 calling for abolition and moratorium on the use of death penalty. The campaign and rally to save Professor Bhullar has the support of World Coalition Against Death Penalty, American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International.

According to human rights lawyer and legal advisor to SJF Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, forcibly removing the turban of a Sikh is the worst form of religious persecution and violation of Sikh human rights, especially when it takes place in Punjab, the homeland of Sikhs under the government headed by a Sikh.

Eighty-odd kilometres from Delhi, past lush mustard fields, stand a few crumbling structures in village Hondh-Chillar. A dove coos plaintively and one may be tempted to soak in the rural freshness, but for the horror that unfolded at the spot in 1984. A group of Sikh men, women and villagers praying at the ruins of a gurudwara catches attention.

Sikhs for Justice and All India Sikh Student Federation have moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court demanding a judicial probe into the horrific killing of Sikhs in village Hondh-Chillar in Rewari District, Haryana on November 2, 1984.

Under The “1503 PETITION” the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and the Commission on Human Rights examine complaints which appear to show consistent patterns of gross and reliably attested human rights violations as in the case of Sikhs in India.

“If death to Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru why not gallows for killers of Chittisinghpora?” They said democratic countries can’t afford to evade delivery of justice and that people seldom forget genocides. They said memories of Delhi massacre of Sikhs and Union Carbide Gas Tragedy of Bhopal were as fresh as they were in 1984.