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Date to Remember
SIKH NEWSKeeping Centeral Valley Sikhs Informed April, 2011
Vaisakhi Day: 14 April
S I M P L E S I K H . C O M
Apirl 16, Gurgaddi
Guru Tegh Bahadar ji.
April 22,Parkash GuruTegh Bahadar Ji.
Apirl 24, Parkash Guru
Arjan Dev Ji.
Apirl 14th, MelaVaisakh.Apirl 18th,
Puranmashi.Apirl1, Gurgaddui
Guru Har Rai Ji
Apirl 4, Gurgaddi
Apirl 7, Jotijot guru
Angad dev Ji.
April 8, Joti jotGuru har Gobind
ji.
Apirl 16, Joti Jot
Guru Har Krishan
FRESNO, California () Sikh Sangat from all over California
converged on Fresno County to protest against excommunicatedProfessor Darshan Singh Ragis blasphemous anti-Sikh sermons this
past weekend. Ragi Darshan Singh was invited to speak at Gurdwara
Singh Sahib (Dakota St., Fresno), Pacific Coast Khalsa DiwanSociety (Gurdwara Sahib, Selma, CA) and Pacific Coast Khalsa
Diwan Society (Caruthers, CA) from March 4th to 6th, in open
defiance to the Akal Takhts January 2010s Hukamnama ousting the
Ragi from the Sikh faith. Continue on page 2
Vaisakhi (Punjabi:,
vaiskh, is, as well, known asBaisakhi), it is a very importantday for Sikhs and one of the mostcolourful events in the Sikhcalendar. It occurs during mid-April every year and traditionallyconcurs in Punjab with the firstharvesting of the crops for the
year. So, historically, it has beena very joyous occasion and atime for celebration. Since 1699, ihad marked the very significantreligious event of the creation of
the Khalsa.
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New Delhi: A leaked cable by the whistle blowing website Wikileaks on Fridrevealed that 'India was systematically torturing civilians in Kashmir'. Accordito leaked cable on Wikileaks on its website and major international publicationthe US officials in New Delhi Delhi were privately briefed by the InternationCommittee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 2005 that 'Indian security forces weusing methods including electrocution, physical beatings and sexu
interference against hundreds of detainees'.In a detailed report back to Washington they recorded the view of the ICRC thIndia condones torture and that the detainees were not Islamist insurgents Pakistani-backed militants, who were routinely killed. Instead, they wecivilians connected to or believed to have information about the insurgency.
According to the cables, the ICRC interviewed 1,296 detainees of whom 6said they had been tortured.
Of those, 498 claimed to have been electrocuted, 381 said they we
suspended from the ceiling, and 304 cases were described as sexual.A total of 294 described a procedure in which guards crushed their legs putting a bar across their thighs and sitting on it, while 181 said their legs hbeen pulled apart into the splits.
In one cable US officials reported that terrorism investigations and court castend to rely upon confessions, many of which are obtained under duress if nbeatings, threats, or in some cases torture.
The cable summarizes the methods as such:"In 852 cases, detainees reported what ICRC refers to as "IT" (ill-treatmen171 persons were beaten, the remaining 681 subjected to one or more of sforms of torture: electricity (498 cases), suspension from ceiling (38"roller" (a round metal object put on the thighs of sitting person, which prispersonnel then sit on, crushing muscles -- 294); stretching (legs split 1degrees -- 181), water (various forms -- 234), or sexual (302)."
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27 ANNUAL 1984 SHAHEEDIREMEMBRANCE DAY
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Registration Deadline is Sunday, May 30th
Gurdwara Gur Nanak Prakash4250 East Lincoln Ave Fresno, CA 93725
Phone: (559)-300-5931 - (559)-352-1473 - (559)-859-4296