An Independent Inquiry of Extra judicial killings by Indian Government
- by: Sikh Youth of America
- recipient: Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, High Commissioner for Human Rights
Ex-Cop Gurmeet Singh 'Pinky' witnessed over 50 murders by the police between 1989 and 1992. But what he saw was just the tip of the iceberg.
It is estimated that over 50,000 Sikhs were killed during this time. Please sign our petition to support us in seeking an independent inquiry by the UN Commission of Human Rights into this state-sponsored massacre that Pinky has helped to uncover.
The Human Rights Watch report on Punjab concluded that security forces in Punjab “systematically violated international human rights law as well as the laws of war governing internal armed conflict.” It further stated that “members of the Punjab police, the federal paramilitary troops of the Central Reserve Police Force and the Border Security Force and, to a lesser extent, the Indian army...engaged in widespread summary executions of civilians and suspected militants”. The Human Rights Watch delegation concluded that “based on the frequency with which these killings were reported to take place and the consistency of the eyewitness testimony,” such executions were not aberrations but in fact “the product of a deliberate policy known to high-ranking security personnel and members of the civil administrations in Punjab and New Delhi.”
Please sign this petition to help us demand justice for this state-sponsored atrocity. If enough people express their support publicly, the pressure will help convince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein that it's time to do what's right.
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During the counter-insurgency campaign the Indian central government gave its security forces wide leeway in their attempt to quell the insurgency, and refused to exert the control necessary to stop widespread abuse of human rights. Members of the Human Rights delegation believe that there is “credible evidence to indicate that, in some cases, the police...actually recruited and trained extrajudicial forces to carry out many of these killings.” The Asia Division of Human Rights Watch (formerly Asia Watch) sent a delegation to Punjab for a short time in 1990, and in the course of just two months “documented 29 extrajudicial executions in which the security forces falsely claimed that the victims were killed in ‘encounters’”, along with 12 disappearances and 32 cases of torture by security forces. US state department says that over 41,000 cash bounties were paid to police in Punjab for extrajudicial killings of Sikhs between 1991 and 1993 alone and India has not allowed Amnesty International to conduct an independent human-rights investigation in Punjab since 1978.
It's time for the state to be held accountable for its actions. Please sign this petition to demand an independent inquiry by the Indian Government into the state-sponsored murder of thousands of Sikhs.
Attn.:Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, High Commissioner for Human Rights
Ex-Cop Gurmeet Singh Pinky exposed the state sponsored killings of Sikhs in India during 1989 to 1992. He eyewitnesses over 50 fake encounters by the police.
The Human Rights Watch report on Punjab concluded that security forces in Punjab “systematically violated international human rights law as well as the laws of war governing internal armed conflict.” It further stated that “members of the Punjab police, the federal paramilitary troops of the Central Reserve Police Force and the Border Security Force and, to a lesser extent, the Indian army...engaged in widespread summary executions of civilians and suspected militants”. The Human Rights Watch delegation concluded that “based on the frequency with which these killings were reported to take place and the consistency of the eyewitness testimony,” such executions were not aberrations but in fact “the product of a deliberate policy known to high-ranking security personnel and members of the civil administrations in Punjab and New Delhi.” Members of the delegation believed that there was “credible evidence to indicate that, in some cases, the police...actually recruited and trained extrajudicial forces to carry out many of these killings,” and that further, “security legislation...increased the likelihood of such abuses by authorizing the security forces to shoot to kill and by protecting them from prosecution for human rights violations”. During the counter-insurgency campaign the Indian central government gave its security forces wide leeway in their attempt to quell the insurgency, and refused to exert the control necessary to stop widespread abuse of human rights. The Asia Division of Human Rights Watch (formerly Asia Watch) sent a delegation to Punjab for two months in 1990, and during that limited time “documented 29 extrajudicial executions in which the security forces falsely claimed that the victims were killed in ‘encounters’”, along with 12 disappearances and 32 cases of torture by security forces. US state department says that Over 41,000 cash bounties were paid to police in Punjab for extrajudicial killings of Sikhs between 1991 and 1993 alone and India has not allowed Amnesty International to conduct an independent human-rights investigation in Punjab since 1978.
The confession by Gurmeet Singh 'Pinky' last week proved the state sponsored Human Rights violations. These violations were not random but a matter of state policy. It was this reason that no one has persecuted so far. We seek an independent inquiry by UN High Commission of Human Rights.
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