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Tel: 905-670-1522, Fax: 416-661-7273 Vol.8 , No. 1030 Thursday, November 04, 2010 17 katak, Nanaksahi Calendar 542
Chemical cloud scare overin Toronto's east end
B.C. premier resigns
Our Heartiest Greetings on BANDI CHOR DIWAS
Residents in Toronto's east end have been given the all-
clear after a chemical cloud leaked from a Scarborough
plant on Wednesday.
The cloud was comprised of sulphuric acid mist.
The chemicals escaped from an overloaded filter, offi-
cials said. Emergency crews had established a command
post near 10 Chemical Court, near Lawrence and Morn-
ingside Avenues in Scarborough's south end.
Traffic was diverted and residents were told to
stay indoors.
The cloud had a strong sulphuric smell, accord-
ing to officers at the scene, and can cause irritation to the
skin. Fire officials say the wind dissipated much of
the cloud .
The address is home to the Chemtura Chemical Plant,
which produces calcium sulfonate grease – a high-per-
formance lubricant.
Const. Wendy Drummond said police contacted
several schools in the area and asked anyone in the area
of East Point Park to stay indoors.
William G. Miller Junior Public School, Heron
Park Junior Public School and Joseph Brant Senior Pub-
lic Senior School were among the schools near the plant.
B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell an-
nounced Wednesday that he will step
down from office, and is calling for a
leadership convention as soon as possi-
ble. The move comes as Campbell's
polling numbers have plummeted over
the much-maligned harmonized sales
tax, which has led to intense speculation
about his political future.
"Over the last few weeks, our
government has continued to move for-
ward with initiatives that will create
jobs, strengthen our economy and sup-
port families in every region of British
Columbia," Campbell told reporters,
making note of last week's announce-
ment of a 15 per cent personal income
tax cut. "It is clear to me that those ini-
tiatives have been overshadowed. And
when public debate becomes focused on
one person, as opposed to what's in the
best interest of the province of British
Columbia, we've lost sight of what is im-
portant. When that happens, it's time for
a change." Campbell declared his inten-
tions mere hours after calling a press
conference for 11:30 a.m. local time to
make an "important announcement."
Campbell has come under fire
from voters, opposition politicians and
even members of his own caucus over
the unpopular HST, which came into ef-
fect on July 1. The move sent Camp-
bell's popularity plummeting: only 12
per cent of respondents to an Angus
Reid poll conducted in September said
they approved of his job performance.
More recent polls put Campbell's sup-
port into single digits, a mere 9 per cent,
for the first time in his three terms in of-
fice. In early September, Campbell said
he would not step down despite calls for
his resignation from former en-
ergy minister Blair Lekstrom and
Liberal supporter Scott Nelson.
Lekstrom resigned from cabi-
net last spring, saying he had to
listen to the concerns of his con-
stituents who felt the govern-
ment badly mismanaged the
HST issue. Campbell was fur-
ther hammered over the income
tax cut, which critics called a
move designed solely to pander
to angry voters. The premier did,
however, concede to sending the
HST to a referendum after for-
mer premier Bill Vander Zalm
collected more than 700,000 sig-
natures on a petition to send the
issue to voters. The referendum is sched-
uled for September 2011.
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Editorial India’s 26 years old crime against humanitySikhs still vividly remember the November 1984 Statesupervisednation- wide pogrom in which over10, 000 innocent Sikhs wereput to death by Hindu mobs, organized by the state & lead by rulingCongress party leaders, for which crime againsthumanity no one has been found guilty in India
If India’s morally repugnant rulers
think that the Sikhs, after a short pas-
sage of only twenty six years, have
forgotten how over ten thousand in-
nocent Sikh men, women and chil-
dren were murdered mercilessly in
India, by armed Hindu mobs, in a
state-supervised nationwide pogrom,
from Oct. 31 to November 3, 1984,
(launched with a ‘wink and a nod’ by
none other than the then Indian Prime
minister Rajiv Gandhi) then they
have another thing coming. The
world’s 26 million Sikhs will never
forget that heinous crime against hu-
manity by the fascist Indian state
which has been unable to find anyone
guilty in twenty six years. Some jus-
tice! A public appeal has been ad-
dressed to US President Barack
Obama, in the American media, on
the eve of his state visit to India start-
ing on 5 November, 2010, which is
appended below, and which seeks his
help during his stay in New Delhi.
The above mentioned infamous No-
vember 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom was
organized and led by the ruling Con-
gress Party mid-level leaders, who
had been given ‘a wink and a nod’ to
‘teach the Sikhs a lesson’ with a
bloody murder spree by the newly
appointed (through a back office in-
trigue) Indian Prime minister Rajiv
Gandhi, the young son of the dead
PM Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the late hus-
band of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and fa-
ther of the dim-witted effeminate
‘pretender to the Indian Prime minis-
ter’s throne’ Rahul Gandhi. Every
Sikh remembers that, twenty six
years ago, armed mobs of Hindu
thugs rampaged through Sikh locali-
ties of major Indian cities (Delhi,
Calcutta, Lucknow, Cownpore,
Patna, Bokaro, Jabalpur et al,) sys-
tematically raping, burning and
killing members of the Sikh minority
a la the brutal Imperial Japanese Oc-
cupation Army’s three month long in-
famous pogrom, known as the ‘Rape
of Nanking’, China, which bloody
spree lasted from December 13, 1937
to February 1938. The above men-
tioned November 1984 Indian state-
sponsored pogrom, which followed
PM Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s assassina-
tion on 31 Oct. 1984, draws attention
to the state of the Indian state, and it’s
so called rule of law. As everyone is
aware the over ten thousand mur-
dered victims, all from the minority
Sikh community, were put to death
because they looked and dressed like
Sikhs. Although 26 years have gone
by, the widely known guilty murder-
ers/thugs of the Congress party, like
Messrs Parkash Shastri, Sajjan
Kumar, Jagdish Tytler, Kamal Nath,
and others of that ilk, who led the
Hindu mobs, have not been punished,
or even tried, and in fact they have
prospered under Mrs. Sonia Gandhi’s
patronage. Hundreds of complaints
by the Sikh victims, backed by affi-
davits, witnesses and evidence, have
disappeared in the ‘black hole’ of the
Indian judicial system waiting for
justice. Obviously the evil nexus of
the Brahmin/Bania Indian ruling
elite, which struts around in New
Delhi, (a city built in early 20th cen-
tury, by the Colonial British on stolen
Sikh gurdwara lands) wants the de-
lays to go on ad infinitum so that
eventually there will be no witnesses
left who saw and experienced the
state-supervised November 1984
pogrom. And, they wrongly hope that
patriotic Sikh activists will give up
their quest for justice for the mass
murder of the over ten thousand in-
nocent men, women and children of
the Sikh minority who were mur-
dered in cold blood (and the billions
of rupees of property which was de-
stroyed by arson and loot) by Hindu
mobs in the November 1984 week of
terror. This is Justice Indian style!
Just over six years ago Rediff.com
website carried an article headlined,
“Light a candle for Sikhs slaughtered
by Congress hoods,” on November
01, 2004, which vividly described-
what had transpired in Delhi during
the four days during the November
1984 state-supervised anti-Sikh
pogrom. The writer urged the read-
ers, “to light a candle in your win-
dow. And whisper a silent prayer in
memory of thousands of Sikh men,
women and children slaughtered by
Congress hoodlums 20 years ago. In
Delhi alone, thousands of Sikhs were
burned alive, butchered or beaten to
death. Women were raped while their
terrified families pleaded for mercy,
little or none of which was shown by
the Congress flag-bearers. In one of
the numerous such incidents, a
woman was gang-raped in front of
her 17-year-old son; before leaving,
the marauders torched the boy. For
three days and nights the killing and
pillaging continued without the po-
lice, the civil administration and the
Union government, which was then
in direct charge of Delhi, lifting a fin-
ger in admonishment. The Congress
was in power, and senior Congress
leaders, perhaps for the first time in
their political careers, led from the
front while the prime minister, his
home minister, indeed the entire
council of ministers, twiddled their
thumbs. Even as stray dogs gorged
on rotting human entrails, gutters
were clogged with charred corpses
and wailing women, clutching chil-
dren too frightened to cry, fled bay-
ing mobs armed with iron rods,
staves and gallons of kerosene.The
three million strong prosperous and
vociferous Sikh diaspora, (unlike
their twenty three million belea-
guered Sikh compatriots suffering
under the Brahmin’s heal, and cap-
tive in the Indian ‘map’, since 1947,
behind a barbed wire ‘Berlin Wall’ on
the Indo-Pakistan border) are FREE
and have a long memory, an active
political lobby, a strong political will
and vast resources to back its ambi-
tions. The three million strong Sikh
diaspora, must resolve to help their
23 million compatriots in South Asia
carve an independent, sovereign,
democratic, water/food-rich buffer
state of Khalistan, stretching from the
Jumna River in the East to the Pak-
istan border in the West. If the Jewish
diaspora could create an Israel, in
1948, so can the Sikh diaspora! Sikh
majority Khalistan is destined to act
as a bridge of peace and commerce to
bring the oil/gas of Central Asia to
the South Asian subcontinent and
carry manufactured goods and food
etc., of South Asia to the Stans of
Central Asia, Iran and China.The
Public appeal by American Sikhs(
mentioned in paragraph one above)
addressed to US President Barack
Obama to help find justice for the
survivors of the November 1984 anti-
Sikh pogrom, (when he will be in
India on a state visit on 5 November,
2010,) published in the US media, is
appended below:-
Advertisement in the OP-Ed section
of the Washington Times on 3 No-
vember, 2010 APPEAL TOPRESI-
DENT BARACK OBAMABEFORE
HE EMBARKS ON HIS STATE
VISITTO A COUNTRY WHICH
MASQUERADES AS A DEMOC-
RACY - INDIARespected Mr. Pres-
ident:Unlike the United States, where
the first amendment to the U.S. Con-
stitution, has guaranteed for over two
centuries, a U.S. citizen’s freedom of
speech, and the freedom of press -
among other freedoms - the first
amendment to the Indian constitution
started a slow march towards a cor-
rupt neo-fascist, intolerant, dynastic
Hindu state. This first amendment
was passed in 1950, by the parlia-
ment of ‘Free’ India which had ear-
lier approved a Constitution - which
the minority Sikh community did not
accept – but, which did guarantee
‘Free Speech’ to every Indian citizens
(Continued to next page)
by Dr. Amarjeet Singh
An appeal to President Barack Obama before he embarks on hisState visit to a country which masquerades as a democracy- INDIA
Dr. Solomon Naz(416-661-7272)
Redemption
God in different times; in diverse manners; spoke in times past to our
fathers; through prophets and teachers. This revelation came to us
through the revelation of the Truth in many signs and mysterious ways.
These parables tell the truth about God and His concern and care about
us. All religion is lost in the fact that we have to search the divinity of
Godhead through our work of faith. This type of spiritual institution
fails man. You simply cannot comprehend God by your good works
and deeds of Charity.
No matter we understand or not; but the love of God for His
creation has been manifested in His love and His redemption acts in
all the religious books and parables in many signs and manners. The
theme of His redemptive power is strewn in the spiritual fiber of our
spirituality. Diwali in all its intents and purpose is an act of deliverance
of Sita from the clutches of death and destruction called Ravna. It is a
victory of good over evil. It is a triumph of life over death. It is an an-
nihilation of darkness over light. That is the totality of the whole con-
cept of Diwali Gospel truth.
The commercialism just as the day of Christmas has lost the
inner core of Diwali and turned it as the worship of a deity called Lak-
shmi or the goddess of wealth. Burning of a candle can illuminate your
house, but it cannot enlighten your inner self. Remember on this day
the 5000,000 hungry Indians who sleep without food; or the 30% pros-
titutes who sell their body to fill their belly.
In some mysterious way this day is sacred to the Jain religion
also as the founder of this religion Lord Mahavir was born on this day.
His path finding of mankind from confusion to enlightenment is an
endless way from darkness to light. It is an act of deliverance in itself.
It is to lead from darkness to light.
In fact if you ask me, the whole Gospel no matter it is Bud-
hist, Jain, Christian, Islam or sikh is; to lead mankind and all the plan-
etary system of life from darkness to light. It delivers man from death
to life. It sets the captives free from the bonds of sinful creature called
death. How it happens is a systematic theological string of doctrines
that tells that no perfection and spiritual atonement is possible without
blood sacrifice. From ancient times it is a common thread in all heathen
religions and theological system that the blood sacrifice is the founda-
tion of all altars. Sacrifices of animals in Hawans, Yagiyas, Ashumev
yagiyas; even human sacrifice was a common occurrence in all reli-
gions. How it got engraved and how the old man started it; it is beyond
human imagination. Sacrifice is the foundation of all human deliver-
ance and an act of redemption from sin and social evils. It is the foun-
dation stone for all ideology and religious philosophy. In todays’
Christianity; the crucification of Christ and shedding of his blood for
the sins of the whole world is the corner stone of their belief system.
For Sikh this day of Deliverance called “Bandhi CHhor has a special
significance. Guru Hargobind being captive of the Mughal king in
Gawalior gaol; not only was instrumental in his own deliverance; but
got 52 other Chieftains free on this auspicious day.
To my mind somehow, the festivities on such a sacred day
got confined to the lightening up of some “Diva” alone. Where as; the
inner truth goes beyond it. It should be rightly called the day of deliv-
erance. The word Bandhi Chhor means Deliverance or redemption.
Lead kindly light from darkness to light. To all our readers; our deep
deep Diwali greetings.
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India’s 26 years old crime against humanityunder article 19 (1) (a). To India’s eternal
shame, this first amendment to the Indian
constitution, was pushed through the Parlia-
ment, by the brute majority of the ruling Con-
gress party, which amendment has since then
curtailed the right of Indian citizen’s to free-
dom of speech and freedom of press etc.,
etc.Over the years, India has become a coun-
try where state-sponsored pogroms against
ethnic minorities like the Sikhs, Christians,
Muslims, Tribals, Dalits and landless peas-
ants, have become a norm. Even today, Sikh
leader Bhai Daljit Singh and dozens of other
Sikh activists are incarcerated for many
months in Punjab jails for asking for self de-
termination for the 26 million strong Sikh
‘nation’ and for distributing pictures of the
late Sant Bhindranwale who was proclaimed
as the greatest Sikh of the 20th century by the
Sikh community. Just holding elections has
not made India a democracy, Mr.
President!No wonder 26 years ago, in No-
vember 1984, the then power-drunk Prime
Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, (late hus-
band of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and son of PM In-
dira Gandhi) launched an anti-Sikh pogrom,
with ‘a wink and a nod’ and a vicious lament
for mass murder of Sikhs, a la King Henry II
of England’s famous quip, in 1170 AD, for
Archbishop Becket’s head. This resulted in
the killing of over 10, 000 innocent Sikh men,
women and children, all over India, including
the capital city of Delhi, by armed Hindu
mobs organized and directed by uniformed
local Police. Innocent Sikh men, women and
children were murdered, burnt and raped be-
cause they looked like Sikhs. Even twenty six
years later, no one has been found guilty in
India, for the Nov. 1984 mass murder of
Sikhs. Yet, India claims to be the world’s
‘largest democracy’. Some Democracy Mr.
President!Just like last year, this year too,
pro-Khalistan organizations have organized
a complete shutdown on November 3, 2010,
in the Sikh Homeland of Indian Occupied
Punjab, to mark the 26th anniversary of the
above-mentioned November 1984 anti-Sikh
pogrom. On Monday, November 1, 2010, the
American-Sikh community (there are over
half a million prosperous and happy Ameri-
can-Sikhs in these United States) held a big
rally, to SHAME INDIA, organized by Sikhs
for Justice, outside the United Nations, in
New York - a memorandum was submitted to
the UN Human Rights Commission. The
New York rally by American-Sikhs, among
other things, was meant to respectfully urge
you Mr. President, to forcefully bring up the
issue of justice for the victims of the Nov.
1984 mass murder of Sikhs in India, when
you meet the Indian leadership, on November
6th, in New Delhi, during your coming state
visit to the Indian demoNcracy. Advertise-
ment sponsored by the following American-
Sikh organizations and Gurdwaras:-1.
American Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee,
representative body of 45 American Gurd-
waras 2. Gurdwara Singh Sabha of Washing-
ton–WA 3.
Gurdwara Siri Guru Teg Bahadar
Sahib, Kent-WA 4. Gurdwara Sahib, Fre-
mont–CA 5. Gurdwara Sikh Center of S.E.
Bay Area, Elsobrante–CA 6. Gurdwara Pa-
cific Coast Khalsa Diwan Society, Stockton–
CA 7. Gurdwara Sahib, Tierra Buena, Yuba
City–CA 8. Gurdwara Sahib Washington Rd.
Yuba City–CA 9. Gurdwara Sahib, Bradshaw
Rd, Sacramento–CA 10. Gurdwara Kalghidar
Sahib, Selma–CA 11. Gurdwara Dashmesh
Darbar, Tulheri–CA 12. Gurdwara Guru
Nanak Mission, Bakersfield–CA 13. Gurd-
wara Siri Guru Singh Sabha, Walnut–CA 14.
Gurdwara Sikh Study Circle, Vermont, LA–
CA 15. Gurdwara Guru Nanak Sahib, Clover
Rd. Tracy–CA 16. Gurdwara Gurmat
Parkash, Manteca–CA 17. Gurdwara Sikh
Religious Society, Palatine– IL 18. Gurdwara
Guru Nanak Sikh Society, Indianoplis–IN 19.
Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Kalamazoo– MI 20.
Gurdwara Sikh Center of Gulf Coast, Hous-
ton–TX 21. Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Dallas–
TX 22. Gurdwara Sikh Center of
Flushing–NY 23. Gurdwara Ramgarhia Sikh
Society of America–NY 24. Sikh Sangat of
Conneticut State 25. Gurdwara Singh Sabha,
Carteret-NJ 26. Gurdwara Dashmesh Darbar,
Port Reading–NJ 27. Guru Sikh Society of
Philadelphia–PS 28. Gurdwara The Sikh As-
sociation of Baltimore–
MD 29. Sikh Gurdwara of Greater Washing-
ton–VA 30. Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Fairfax–
VA 31. Sikhs For Justice 32. Voices For
Freedom 33. Sikh Youth of America 34.
Awaz Punjab Di, Radio Programme, Bakers-
field– CA 35. Gatka Dal- CA
Dr. Amarjit Singh
Khalistan Affairs Center
Tel: 202-637-9210
Mobile phone: 917-821-7368
E-Mail: >[email protected]
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