On 30th anniversary of Sikh massacre, Dal Khalsa to take march from Akal Takht to UN embassy in Delhi

HOSHIARPUR: To once again highlight the cause of justice for victims of November 1984 massacre of Sikhs on its 30th anniversary, Dal Khalsa has resolved to organize a rights and justice march from Akal Takht to Delhi based embassy of the United Nations to seek world body intervention.
"Sikhs were hounded and killed in Delhi. So, we propose to go to Delhi.We plan to march to Delhi. Not just for calls of justice but for more. Not just for remembrance but for more. Not just for speeches of allegations but for more," said Dal Khalsa president Dhami. "During these agonizing years the actual victims, their relatives and friends, the community and its concerned leadership has done whatever has been possible to get justice but to no avail," he said.
Flanked by party spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh Dr Manjinder Singh, Dhami said Sikhs had lost all hopes in getting justice from justice delivery system of the country. "The November genocide was sponsored and patronized by political establishment of those times, hence the state would never punish the perpetrators," he said.
Seeking UN intervention for a political solution of the crisis in Punjab he said that apart from giving justice to the victims of the massacre political resolution of the issues of Punjab was also required.
"Today is Dusshera and this march would remind the Indian state that just as this country continues to remembers the Ravana by burning his effigy on Dusshera every year, we the Sikhs will continue to remember the modern day Ravanas of the Sikhs who played the death Tandav against innocent Sikhs," he said.
Reaching out to other ethnic minorities, Dhami told media that they have invited the Kashmiris, the Nagas and other ethnic minorities including Christians to participate in the march as "we all have suffered oppression from same oppressor". Our pain and agony is same so we will share the dias in Delhi, said he. And added they would seek cooperation from all like-minded Sikh organizations mainly SAD (Panch Pardani), Damdami Taksal, Khalsa Panchayat, United Sikh Movement, Akand Kirtani Jatha.