#sikh genocide

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A post in memory of the 1984 Sikh Genocide. To all the victims and those who suffered from it. To the innocent lives lost.

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Never forget 1984 : when the Sikh genocide took place and one of the most holy places to Sikhs, the darbar shaib (India, Amritsar) was attacked.

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PUNJAB POLICE HAVE ABDUCTED A BRITISH SIKH ACTIVIST

Scottish Sikh Jagtar (Jaggi) Singh Johal has been illegally abducted and detained in India without cause or access to legal representation since November 4, 2017. Today, he was presented in court and his legal council confirmed that he has been physically tortured. Jaggi was in Punjab for his wedding, and shortly after, police came in plain clothes and forcibly hooded him from behind and took him away in an unmarked vehicle to an undisclosed location.

The British High Commission failed to secure his release and he has been remanded until November 17th. His legal team has confirmed that he has been tortured and Jaspal Singh Manjhpur described the torture in a SikhSiyasat article: "Jaggi told me that he was tortured physically and mentally as his legs were forcibly stretched beyond limits and he was given electric shots on nipples, ears and genitals."

This is not something new, but a continuation of the history of abduction, torture, and disappearance of Sikh youth in India. There is a precedence of impunity and extra-judicial murder that has taken thousands of lives.

Jaswant Singh Khalra was a Human Rights advocate who exposed these crimes in the 80s & 90s, toured parliaments around the world and then returned to India where he was abducted, tortured and extra-judicially murdered by Indian officials in 1995. Twenty-two years after the illegal abduction and murder of Bhai Jaswant Singh Khalra, Jagtar Singh Johal has been abducted and tortured for exposing Indian state violence and human rights abuses.

Speak out against this perpetuation of minority oppression in India. In the past, India benefited from media and power blackouts that hid the reality of their human rights violations. The internet can now challenge that darkness. Speaking openly about cases like these sheds light upon decades of stories that the Indian government attempted to hide.

Reblog this post, whether or not you are Sikh, and make your own posts with the hashtag #FreeJaggiNow. Your silence in this case will be violence.

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." -Elie Wiesel

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Content credit: @punskaur from instagram

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Kudos to Scottish National Party MP Martin Docherty for taking action on behalf of his constituent Jagtar Singh Johal, who has been illegally and unjustly detained in Punjab. 

 Non-Sikh allies, we need you to step up and speak out. 

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You know all the Sikhs-don't-do-enough-to-speak-up-against-Islamophobia-and-need-to-be-better-allies people are awefully quiet when it comes to the Sikh genocide.

Not saying that Sikhs shouldn't do more, but allyship is a two way street.

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Meanwhile, her son and your daddy commanded mobs to kill Sikhs in the streets of Delhi to continue her genocidal vendetta. 🙄🙄🙄