Sikh homeland will be staging area for Nuclear holocaust!

[HarjeetSingh]

India's nukes put 18 million Sikhs at risk and international community must share the blame.

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13 -- Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of the Council of Khalistan, made clear today the implications of India's recent nuclear explosions on the 18 million Sikhs residing in the Sikh homeland Punjab, Khalistan. He also criticized the international community for financing India's out of control spending on nuclear and military development.

"India's testing of five nuclear devices bodes ill for the people of South Asia in general and the Sikhs of Punjab, Khalistan in particular." Dr. Aulakh said. "Look at a map of the region, the Sikh homeland straddles India and Pakistan. In past conflicts, our homeland has been the battleground for wars between India and Pakistan and the next war will be the same. If there were ever a nuclear exchange, Punjab, Khalistan and her people would be laid to waste."

"I have no doubt that the Indian military strategic planners believe that the loss of millions of Sikh lives in a nuclear theater would come under the category of acceptable losses." Dr. Aulakh pointed out that since the Golden Temple massacre in 1984, a quarter million Sikhs were killed by Indian State security forces based on the Punjab State courts and human rights figures. "Over the last 14 years, the Indian government has already proven that it can kill hundreds of thousands Sikhs with impunity." Dr. Aulakh said. "If India engages in a nuclear exchange with Pakistan, millions of Sikh deaths would also be ultimately acceptable to the Indian."

Dr. Aulakh criticized the international community for ignoring India's systematic violations of human rights against its own citizens and for financing India's multi-billion dollar nuclear program. "The international community has ignored reports by the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and rights groups in India. In addition to 250,000 Sikh deaths since 1984, Indian government forces have killed 200,000 Christians in Nagaland since 1947, almost 60,000 Muslims in Kashmir since 1988 and tens of thousands of Dalits." Dalits are India's dark skinned aboriginal people who are relegated to outcaste/untouchable status in India's Hindu caste system.

"The international community blindly followed Indian government assurances that it is in compliance with international laws and norms." Dr. Aulakh said. "As a result, U.S. and its partners have provided billions of dollars in direct and indirect aid to India, practically without condition." "Dollars America gives to the Indian Government in direct and indirect aid," Dr. Aulakh concluded, "allows India to spend its own dollars on developing nuclear weapons and delivery systems. And with these nuclear explosions, we have seen the fruits of all that international aid."