Profiling brings promotion as 19 peaceful Sikhs snatched by Indian police in 12 days. As reported by News Media, Nineteen young Sikhs were snatched off the streets by Indian police since September 6.
For last few days the Punjab police is on the hunt for the Sikh youth again as at least 19 young Sikhs have already been arrested by Punjab police from various places in Punjab These people are essentially disappeared. No evidence connects them to any crime save their lawful possession of firearms according to the human right of self-defense. They were led away with black hoods over their heads. Their villages are rallying in unity for their release.
Do their families know where they are kept and what they are charged with?
Are they being tortured? How many of them will be killed in custody like human rights worker Jaswant Singh Khalra was in September 1995?
One of the kidnapped is Sukhjinder Singh, a close relative of Bhai Jaspal Singh Gurdaspur, who was killed in March last year when police, without warning, opened fire into a peaceful crowd. The family has been seeking justice in the courts. A family member of Sukhjinder “told media that they were being pressurized by the police to ask Jaspal Singh’s family to withdraw their case from the high court. They said that Sukhjinder Singh was framed in this case by the Gurdaspur police under [a] deep-rooted conspiracy to pressurize the family and close relatives of Jaspal Singh.”
The targeting of Sikh youth continues, promotion for profiling prevails, and intimidation of those who expose injustice is the game of the day.
Discrimination like this always ends in ethnic cleansing. We saw it in 1984, we saw it throughout the 1990s, and then we saw architects of genocide like Kamal Nath and Sumedh Saini promoted to the highest levels of India’s central and state governments. Genocide in India is a thing of the present.
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Source: Pieter Singh, SIC