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Patiala Jail Superintendent Defied Order to Hang Rajoana

sandeep — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:21:07 +0000

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 5, 2012 ? The Sikh Nation honors Patiala Jail superintendent Lakhminder Singh Jakhar, said Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of the Council of Khalistan. ?Superintendent Jakhar has shown true Sikh spirit,? Dr. Aulakh said. ?He is a true Sikh of Guru Gobind Singh.?Jakhar was ordered by anti-Sikh, pro-RSS Hindu fanatic Judge Shalini Nagpal to hang Sardar Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was recently declared a living Sikh martyr. Jakhar refused to carry out the hanging and now faces a contempt of court charge.
?Superintendent Jakhar has shown the spirit of a true Sikh of guru Gobind Singh,? said Dr. Aualkh. ?Judge Nagpal is a tool of militant Hindus and her order followed that line,? he said. ?By his refusal to follow that order, Superintendent Jakhar has shown that he is a strong and true Sikh who is willing to take a stand for the Khalsa Panth.?

Rajiv Tandon, a leader of the militant Shiv Sena, had written to Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal offering to be the hangman for Rajoana. Punjab has no hangmen at present. Shiv Sena is a branch of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), a militant Hindu nationalist organization formed in support of the Fascist movement. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is the coalition partner of Chief Minister Badal?s Akali Dal, is the political arm of the RSS.

The family of the late Chief Minister Beant Singh has said that they would not oppose commuting Sardar Rajoana?s sentence to life. ?The peace of Punjab should not be disturbed,? they said.

Over 250,000 Sikhs have been murdered since 1984. In addition, the Indian government has murdered more than 300,000 Christians since 1948, almost 100,000 Muslims in Kashmir since 1988, and tens of thousands of Assamese, Bodos, Manipuris, Tamils, Dalits, and others. The Indian Supreme Court called the Indian government’s murders of Sikhs “worse than a genocide.”

According to a report by the Movement Against State Repression (MASR), 52,268 Sikhs are being held as political prisoners in India without charge or trial. Some have been in illegal custody since 1984! Last month, two young Sikhs were shot by police for engaging in a peaceful demonstration. A couple of years ago, 35 Sikhs were arrested for making speeches in support of Khalistan and raising the Khalistani flag. In addition, Amnesty International reports that ?tens of thousands? of minorities are being held as political prisoners.

India is a multinational state thrown together by the British colonialists for their administrative convenience. As Steve Forbes pointed out in his excellent Forbes magazine article ?India, Meet Austria-Hungary,? history shows that such countries collapse, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia to Yugoslavia. The breakup of India is inevitable.

?As Professor Darshan Singh, a former Jathedar of the Akal Takht, said, ?If a Sikh is not a Khalistani, he is not a Sikh?,? Dr. Aulakh noted. A CIA report in 2010 predicted that India will disintegrate by 2015. It is not a single nation but a conglomerate of many nations. History shows that such countries are doomed to collapse.

The independence of Khalistan is very close. ?We must continue to pray for and work for our God-given birthright of freedom,? Dr. Aulakh said. ?Without political power, religions cannot flourish, repression continues, and nations perish.?

Court denies bail to Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi

sandeep — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:23:25 +0000

New Delhi April 04,2012-Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bomb attack at an Israeli diplomat’s car here, was today denied bail by a Delhi court.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Vinod Yadav dismissed Kazmi’s bail plea saying there was no substance in his bail plea. “I have gone through the case diaries brought to the court by the special team of Delhi police… I have not found any substance in the defence arguments,” the CMM said.Arguing for bail, Kazmi’s counsel Gajinder Kumar had said his client should not be pushed to a point of committing suicide. He had added Kazmi’s incarceration is the punishment for a crime he did not commit. Kazmi had sought bail saying the probe against him has been completed as due to its completion, he had been sent to the judicial custody on March 24, mid-way his tenure for the police custody till March 27.He had earlier alleged that the police was harassing him in custody to pressurise him to “confess to a crime he never committed” and that “foreign agencies like Mossad were also interrogating him.”The court had then asked the Special Cell not to permit other investigating agencies to interrogate him but had imposed no bar on sharing information with other agencies. Kazmi, who claims to have been writing for an Iranian publication, was picked up by the Special Cell of Delhi Police after the probe showed he had been in touch with a suspect who is believed to have stuck the magnetic bomb on Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua’s car on February 13.Yehoshua and an Indian driver of the Embassy vehicle were among the four people injured in the blast.

Should we feel happy or feel ashamed- Kanwal jit Singh Gill( 604-595-6514)

sandeep — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:55:43 +0000

Recently we have been reading about Sajjan Kumar’s case about innocent killings in 1984 Sikh Genocide, in Delhi Courts. I don’t know wether we should feel happy or feel ashamed that CBI is accepting the facts now after 27 years that police had kept their eyes closed in pre-planned manner and let mobs kill innocent persons. This is something Sikhs knew from day one that 1984 Sikh Genocide was planned, organised and executed by the ruling Congress leadership that ordered police to close their eyes and let mobs kill innocent persons. That is why there is not even a single case of police lathi charge, tear gas or firing to disperse the crowd and save lives. But there are examples of police acting against Sikh families who tried to save their lives. In Tarlokpuri and Mangolpuri Sikhs living there got togather with lathis and swords etc. to fight back against the mobs to protect their families. But the congress leaders of the mobs went to the the area police stations and asked police to disarm and disperse the Sikhs to their homes. Right away the police chiefs of those stations showed up with police force and told Sikhs they are violating Sec.144 and shouldn’t get togather. The police took all their lathis and swords etc. and sent them to their homes. They promised Sikhs that they’ll protect them from the mobs. But after dispersing Sikhs the police left and the mobs came and worse kind of massacare happened in these areas. Innocent people killed and burnt alive, women raped and houses burnt. And the police never showed up to save lives. Police Chiefs of these areas should have been charged with first degree murders, but no action was taken against them by the Rajeev Govt. because they were just following their orders. Another example is DCP Kamath (who later became Delhi Police Chief) arresting a Sikh family that fired Gun to scare away the mob and save their lives. But DCP Kamath showed up with police force and arrested the Sikh family for firing gun to save their lives. But same
Kamath never showed up to arrest mobs or save innocent lives. And Rajeev Gandhi govt. rewarded Kamath with Police Medal for his bravery and arresting Sikh family. All these things very clearly prooves the role of ruling Congress party leadership and police following their orders. Now finally CBI is accepting that it was pre-planned and police had their eyes closed. Now even the Judge hearing the case is making very sympathetic remarks for the innocent persons killed in 1984 and observed two minutes silence in the court. But I don’t know how sincere these remarks are. Why did such Judges and the Justice system kept quite and failed to act and punish the guilty persons for 27 years ? But then I think that if there is any sincereity in these comments and CBI saying that whole thing was pre-planned. Then let us hope the Justice system will really start accepting these facts and will start punishing the guilty congress leaders and police officers for their roles in the innocent killings. There is a slight ray of hope to get the justice for 1984 victim families and punishment to the guilty persons.

Athletes fail dope test in Police meet

sandeep — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:45:49 +0000

New Delhi- Athletes were found positive in the doping tests conducted by National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) during the All India Police Athletics Championship, which were held from March 12 to 15 here.According to the analytical reports of sample ‘A’ received from the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL), six out of 55 samples have been found containing prohibited substances notified by World Anti Doping Agency (WADA). In percentage terms, this is 11% which is much higher than the national average of 4%. The substances reported are ‘Stanozolol’, ‘Furosemide (Diuretics)’ Methandienone’ and ‘Nandrolone’. The athletes involved belong to Punjab Police, BSF, ITBP, CRPF and Odisha Police.”Further, NADA has also did sample testing during March 26- 30, 2012 in the 60th All India Police Wrestling Cluster -2011 held at JLN Stadium and IG Stadium. In all 47 urine and 12 blood samples were collected. The report of NDTL is awaited in respect of this 47 samples. Samples collected include Wrestling (10), Boxing (17), Weightlifting (15), Judo (3) and Gymnastics (2). Blood samples were collected in Wrestling (3) and Boxing (9),” NADA director-general Rahul Bhatnagar said in a statement.

Opening ceremony launches IPL-V

sandeep — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:39:07 +0000

Chennai :A spectacular mix of Bollywood razzmatazz and high-octane performances by International stars were the highlights of a glittering opening ceremony which set the ball rolling for the fifth edition of the IPL here tonight.The glamour quotient was at an all-time high as a galaxy of stars, led by megastar Amitabh Bachchan, descended at the at the YMCA College of Physical Education and set the stage on fire with their performance.Amitabh, returning to work after two abdominal surgeries earlier this year, started the proceedings for the evening with a rendition of a poem ‘If I were to be born again’, written by renowned lyricist Prasoon Joshi.The 69-year-old’s baritone voice and inimitable style, coupled with a dance performance choreographed by Shiamak Davar at the background gave an apt start to the glittering ceremony, which set the stage for the 54-day extravaganza featuring nine teams.South African percussion band First Project, composer DJ Ravi Drums and Colonial Cousins then took the stage and churned out their brand of music, setting the pulses racing.Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra then enthralled the audience with her dance and heroics during her performance to the hit numbers from her films such as ‘Don’, ‘Don 2′ and ‘Kaaminey’, which even saw India spinner Harbhajan Singh shaking a leg on the stage.India’s dancing sensation and Chennai’s own Prabhu Deva then burned the dance floor with his power-packed performance where he danced to songs from films such as (Wanted) and ‘Hum Se Hai Muqablah’.Two-time title winners, Chennai Super Kings then took the stage and Priyanka Chopra shared some light moments with the cricketers as she quizzed skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and also taught Australian Doug Bollinger and Indian spinner R Ashwin some dancing steps.The ‘Chammak Challo’ of the Tinsel town, Kareena Kapoor then set the heart racing with her dance numbers from films such as ‘Ra One’ and ‘Agent Vinod’.The opening Nite then saw the oath taking ceremony by the skippers of the nine teams, including retired Rahul Dravid and Australian Adam Gilchrist, as they signed the MCC Spirit of Cricket pledge.

Korean Americans Look Inward After Oakland Shooting

sandeep — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:35:49 +0000

Sanfrancisco( New America Media, News Report, Aruna Lee,)April 04,2012- The shooting that killed seven at a private Christian university in Oakland would never have happened in Korea, where owning a firearm is outlawed. That at least is the assessment of community members who point to America’s own thriving gun culture as a causal factor in this and other incidents. “Gun possession is a major factor in the deadly shootings,” said Nam Paik, pastor of the Northern California Deaf Church based in Fremont, Calif. “Sometimes frustration and anger can boil over into direct and violent action through the use of firearms.” The shooting, the Bay Area’s worst mass murder in nearly two decades, occurred Monday morning at Oikos University, in a business park between Interstate 880 and Oakland International Airport. Another three were injured in the slaughter, according to police.The shooter has been identified as 43-year-old naturalized Korean American One (Won) Goh, a former nursing student at the school. A report in the SF Chronicle notes that Goh may have been involved in a dispute with campus officials. He was apprehended an hour-and-a-half later in Alameda, after having fled in a victim’s car. “Life as an immigrant in this country can be very isolating and lonely,” explained Paik. “Also, the violence in American culture… with high rates of gun possession and an entertainment industry that glorifies violence can definitely influence people.” One of the victims, Hyun-joo Shim, 21, was enrolled in the school’s nursing program, according to Joo-young Hwang, a reporter with the Korean-language Korea Daily. Hwang says the victim’s father had been waiting just off campus for his daughter to come out. “I have a bad feeling,” he told Hwang, after failing to reach Shim by phone. “I regret it happened in the Korean community,” said Jae-sun Kim with the Korean Consulate in San Francisco.Kyung Chan Kim, a pastor at the Richmond Korean Baptist Church and head of the Northern California Korean Christian Association, expressed condolences to the families of the victims, but was quick to distance the community from the violence.“I’m very sorry to the victims of the shooting, and I’m very sorry that it happened in a Korean Christian school,” said Kim. “However, this kind of incident can happen regardless of place. I don’t think it’s just a problem within the Korean community.”Such statements are exactly what Jonathan H. Lee, chair of the Department of Primary Care and Community Medicine at the San Mateo Medical Center, warns against. Lee, who is Korean American, says members must take stock of to what extent this tragedy reflects something within their own community. “There is a racial overlay to this,” said Lee, noting that both the shooter and the university were part of the Korean American community. “Koreans are implicated… [but] the reaction of the Korean community is probably going to be to find an explanation that doesn’t require them to go inward.”Part of that may have to do with religion, he adds. “Many of the patients I see, who are more fundamentalist, tend not to acknowledge science.”There is already a well-documented cultural reticence to acknowledging mental illness among Koreans, a tendency that is particularly pronounced among the more devout. “Some of them have a hard time accepting that their blood sugar count might be low,” said Lee, who notes that for some religiously inclined Koreans, admitting to such afflictions as mental disease can be tantamount to a weakness of faith. “I met the assailant a couple of times, but don’t know him well,” said Dong Kim, publisher of the Korean-language weekly Hyundai News U.S.A. and a long time Oakland resident. “I heard he used to work at a Korean supermarket in Daly City, and that other staff there feared him.”That description echoes similar statements following the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech in 2007, which killed 32 and wounded 25. The attacker, Seung-hui Cho, was a Korean American enrolled at the university. Like Goh, he used a .45 caliber handgun in the attacks. Cho had previously been diagnosed with a severe anxiety disorder. Korean media at the time were quick to note that he was raised in the United States.

In February of this year, a Korean man in Atlanta entered a sauna and opened fire, killing four before turning the gun on himself. All four victims were related to the shooter in that case. Officials say a domestic dispute led to the killings.

“It’s not just an individual problem,” said Dong, who like Lee feels this latest incident highlights potentially deeper problems within the community. Pointing to increasingly common reports out of South Korea about the often violent bullying that occurs there, sometimes driving victims to suicide, Dong says such bullying “doesn’t only happen in schools.”

“We, as Koreans, should reflect on this matter,” he said, “and embrace others in a warm way.”
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ippy
Posted 1 hour ago

umm…yes it “could” happen in Korea. It has happened there before..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Bum-kon

Andre-Leonard
Posted moments ago

My heart goes out to all the victims of this senseless violence. Also the greater Korean community at large.

As echoed by many sentiments in this article. There is a tendency to blame yourselves, when this is wrong. We know here in America,as is true anywhere, that weak people who commit terrible acts like these come from all races. People who have one thing in common, no coping skills.

I have known a good many Korean people, Vietnamese people and lots of others. The thread that really binds us together is the church and our love of God. Something that people with no coping skills need.

Man’s inhumanity to man knows no bounds. Let’s mourn, weep, shed our sorrows and hope the Creator gives us strength to carry on.

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sandeep — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:17:41 +0000

Seven sitting councillors expelled from BJP

sandeep — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:15:23 +0000

New Delhi-April 03,2012- :The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday struck against rebels in its ranks, expelling seven sitting councillors for six years for `gross indiscipline’ ahead of the muncipal polls. The councillors faced the axe for opposing the official BJP candidates – by contesting themselves or fielding their spouses – or other anti-party activities.The penalised councillors are Rajesh Yadav, Parveen Rajput, Harish Awasthi, Sudesh Bhasin, Prabha Singh, Veena Abral and Jagdish MamgainBJP state president Vijender Gupta announced the party decision at a press conference in the presence of Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly V K Malhotra and spokesperson Vijay Jolly.“The tickets were given after due consideration on the advice and with consultation with party’s national leaders. It was a transparent process. “Still, not all could be pleased. We reasoned with angry party workers and many have returned to the party-fold. However, these seven have crossed party lines which is gross indiscipline and will not be tolerated,” said Gupta.Works committee chairman Jagdish Mamgain, who was denied the ticket, had claimed he has resigned from party membership. But Gupta said no resignation letter has been received from him or or anybody else.While Mamgain is not fighting the elections, the other six are in the fray themselves or their spouses are contesting. Some more could face the axe soon as the party is receiving complaints of rebels in various wards, and a list of such people is being prepared. According to information, there is open revolt against official BJP candidate in at least 40 wards.Gupta said that BJP will win more than two-thirds majority in each of the three municipalities going to polls on April 15.And Malhotra claimed he had not seen such a strong pro-BJP wave in the elections for the last several decades.He said Congress was doomed.“There is a double incumbency factor against Congress. They are heading Delhi government as well as the Central government and people are fed up of their policies. “The petrol prices are about to go up, and this will further lead to a price spiral. People are not going to forgive Congress,” said Malhotra. He appealed to all angry party workers to cool down and join hands to defeat the Congress candidates.Gadkari to release Ghotale Hi Ghotale.
BJP national president Nitin Gadkari will release ‘Ghotale Hi Ghotale’ (Scam after Scam), a booklet prepared by Delhi Pradesh BJP on Tuesday. According to Gupta, it will contain details of various scams committed by Delhi and Central government in the past several years. Delhi Pradesh in-charge M Venkaiah Naidu and other senior leaders will be present on the occasion.

Man whose lies killed 1,00,000 confesses all

sandeep — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:43:47 +0000

London, 03 April 2012-: A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq ~ starting a nine-year war costing more than 1,00,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds ~ will come clean in his first ever British television interview tomorrow.’Curveball’, the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, smiled as he confirmed how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi’s lies used to justify the Iraq war.He tried to defend his actions: “My main purpose was to topple the tyrant in Iraq because the longer this dictator remains in power, the more the Iraqi people will suffer from this regime’s oppression.”The chemical engineer claimed to have overseen the building of a mobile biological laboratory when he sought political asylum in Germany in 1999. His lies were presented as ‘facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence’ by Mr Colin Powell, US Secretary of State, when making the case for war at the UN Security Council in February 2003.
But Mr Janabi, speaking in a two-part series, Modern Spies, starting tomorrow on BBC2, says none of it was true. When it is put to him ‘we went to war in Iraq on a lie. And that lie was your lie’, he simply replies: “Yes.”US officials ‘sexed up’ Mr Janabi’s drawings of mobile biological weapons labs to make them more presentable, admits Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, General Powell’s former chief of staff. “I brought the White House team in to do the graphics,” he said, adding how ‘intelligence was being worked to fit around the policy’.As for his former boss: “I don’t see any way on this earth that Secretary Powell doesn’t feel almost a rage about Curveball and the way he was used in regards to that intelligence.”Another revelation in the series is the real reason why the FBI swooped on Russian spy Anna Chapman in 2010. Top officials feared the glamorous Russian agent wanted to seduce one of US President Barack Obama’s inner circle. Frank Figliuzzi, the FBI’s head of counter-intelligence, reveals how she got ‘closer and closer to higher and higher ranking leadership, she got close enough to disturb us’.The fear that Chapman would compromise a senior US official in a ‘honey trap’ was a key reason for the arrest and deportation of the Russian spy ring of 10 people, of which she was a part, in 2010. “We were becoming very concerned,” he says. “They were getting close enough to a sitting US Cabinet member that we thought we could no longer allow this to continue.” Mr Figliuzzi refuses to name the individual who was being targeted.Several British spies also feature in the programme, in the first time that serving intelligence officers have been interviewed on television. In contrast to the US intelligence figures, the British spies are cloaked in darkness, their voices dubbed by actors. BBC veteran reporter Peter Taylor, who worked for a year putting the documentary together, describes them as ‘ordinary people who are committed to what they do’ and ‘a million miles’ from the spies depicted in film. He adds: “What surprised me was the extent to which they work within a civil service bureaucracy. Everything has to be signed off, you’ve got to have authorisation signed in triplicate.”Would-be agents should abandon any Hollywood fantasies they may have, says Sonya Holt at the CIA recruitment centre. “They think it’s more like the movies, that they are going to be jumping out of cars and that everyone carries a weapon. Yes we’re collecting intelligence but we don’t all drive fast cars. You’re going to be writing reports; you’re in meetings so it’s not always that glamorous image of what you see in the movies.” the independent

Daughter implicated in murder of parents

sandeep — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:30:42 +0000

Franfort(Germany)State prosecutors have applied for an arrest warrant for a 17-year-old girl and her 21-year-old boyfriend on suspicion of murdering her parents. Two bodies were found in the garden of a house in a small Bavarian village on Sunday night.Police were called to the house by the couple’s son who said that his parents, Franz and Heidi R., 60 and 54, were missing and that there was a “large amount of blood in the stairway of the house,” a police spokesman said on Monday. Shortly afterwards officers found two bodies in the garden of the house in Notzing, near Ingolstadt. An autopsy confirmed that the couple were killed by multiple stab wounds.They said the 21-year-old man gave himself up while officers were at the house, and confessed. Police later found several knives in the young man’s flat, though they are not sure which, if any, was the murder weapon.The man is thought to have behaved violently towards both his own family, as well as his girlfriend’s, in the past. “The background to the case remains unclear,” said police spokesman Peter Grießer. Detectives have sealed off the house and the street nearby, where it seems the bodies were first buried before being dug up and reburied in the garden. Police suspect that the daughter may have been involved in her parents’ deaths, though it remains unclear in what way.According to a report in Bild newspaper that cites anonymous police sources, she is not thought to have been directly involved in their killing, but may have helped hide the bodies. She was reportedly in the house, where she lives, when her brother came in and phoned the police.