13 January 1989: A peaceful Sikh Nagar Kirtan in Jammu turned tragic when it was attacked by members of right-wing Hindutva groups, resulting in the deaths of 14 Sikhs, including women and children.
This remains one of the lesser-known yet deeply painful chapters in Sikh history
Nitish Kaushal is #wanted by the #FBI for his alleged involvement in a transnational criminal organization engaged in, among other things, acts involving murder, kidnapping, drug trafficking, extortion, weapons trafficking, money laundering, and human smuggling. This organization originated in the Punjab state of India and operated in the Central District of California and elsewhere: https://t.co/khFIZIPMW3
From 14–16 September 1988, six Sikh students of Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College in Bidar, Karnataka, were brutally murdered and lynched. Another 30–42 Sikhs were injured and roughly 85 Sikh households, along with historical gurdwaras such as the one dedicated to Mai Bhago, were desecrated and destroyed. Damages exceeded one crore rupees. Victims later said the unprovoked pogrom was perpetrated by local Hindu extremist mobs led by the RSS and Shiv Sena.
It wasn't just Punjab under K.P. Gill.
In 1991, UP police stopped a bus of Sikh pilgrims returning from Sri Hazur Sahib in Pilibhit. They were dragged out and ki!!ed in a fake encounter.
Years later, the Supreme Court sentenced 47 policemen to life imprisonment.
A chilling revelation from a former Police officer exposing the reality of staged encounters in #Punjab. These testimonies shed light on a dark chapter of history, highlighting the extrajudicial actions and fake encounters that affected thousands of families. Watch the full explanation here. 👇
Like Jaswant Singh Khalra, he undertook fieldwork to get to the bottom of what was taking place - routine kidnappings by the police, torture and extra-judicially murders. Bodies were either cremated or were thrown in the rivers in Punjab. #Satluj
In the aftermath of 1984, the police-politician nexus weaponised state machinery and media narratives to defame the Sikh community.
By intentionally stereotyping the entire community as anti-national, institutional forces attempted to justify systemic violence and divert public accountability away from their own administrative failures.
Inciting Hindus against Muslims through propaganda films is fine but Sikhs being shown truth about mass disappearances and encounters risks "rekindling anger". This is what I mean by Monopoly of Victimhood. Majority is free to consume hate but minorities don't even deserve truth
"Someday when we have Nuremberg kind of trail, then we will have the Eichmanns and Bormans & Gill will be in the dock that day."
- Ravi Nair (Human Rights Lawyer, not a Khalistani supporter)
Everyone is wrong except Bal's mama who couldn't even keep it in his pants.
Between 1978-95, 20% of Sikh popluation was either killed, injured, jailed, exiled or simply disappeared.
Each dot on map is where Sikh was killedin encounter Encounter
I. Arrest a Sikh
2.Put a reward on him/her
3. Kill Sikh in a staged enocunter
Read Jaswant Singh Khalra report
Law enforcement partners in the United States, Canada, and Europe have arrested 24 defendants – 11 of them in California – connected to three India-based transnational organized crime groups charged with a litany of criminal acts, including the assassination in Canada in 2023 of a prominent Indian political and religious figure.
Today’s law enforcement action – “Operation Hard Ball” – is the result of a years-long federal investigation into Indian crime syndicates that engage in racketeering, targeted killings, shootings, extortion, the trafficking of bulk quantities of narcotics across international borders, and other crimes around the world whose impact is especially felt in the Indian diaspora.
In total, 37 defendants – including two defendants who ran their global criminal syndicates while imprisoned in India – are charged across three indictments unsealed today. Those arrested in the United States – 11 in California, one in Indiana, and one in Georgia – are expected to make their initial appearances today in federal court.
Three defendants have been arrested in Canada, one defendant was arrested in Spain, and seven defendants already were in custody prior to today’s law enforcement operation. Law enforcement is looking for 10 fugitives – seven in the United States, two in India, and one in Europe.
As part of this investigation, law enforcement has seized approximately 1,000 kilograms of cocaine and 1 kilogram of heroin along with $40,000 in cash and a dozen firearms. A total of 23 search warrants have been executed in the Sacramento area and 11 warrants have been executed in the Los Angeles area.
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Additional details: https://t.co/wxzv0taBTf
As part of Operation "Hard Ball," the FBI and our law enforcement partners throughout California, other U.S. cities and in Canada, India and Europe collaborated to execute dozens of search and arrest warrants targeting 37 members of violent transnational organizations who are charged with engaging in racketeering, targeted killings, shootings, extortion, the trafficking of bulk quantities of narcotics across international borders, and other crimes around the world. #OperationHardBall
In 1995, travelling late at night to Jalandhar, our taxi was stopped by Punjab Police.
I was ordered out. A circle of armed officers surrounded me. One pressed the cold barrel of a submachine gun against my forehead. I can still remember that feeling today.
In Punjabi they asked, “What is your father’s name?”
A friend had once given me one piece of advice: if the police stop you, speak only in English.
So I replied, “I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Can you speak in English?”
My London accent stopped them in their tracks.
They stepped away, argued among themselves for what felt like an eternity, then came back and asked the same question in broken English. I answered, then asked, “Don’t you want to know my name?”
No reply. More discussion.
A minute later, the officer holding the gun to my head was told to let me go.
Back in the taxi, my driver quietly said, “Whatever you said to them probably saved both our lives.”
Punjab 95/Sutlej has brought memories like this flooding back. Many lived through those years with stories they have carried in silence ever since.
The #FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest of Satinderjeet Singh, #wanted for his alleged involvement in the Lawrence Bishnoi Organized Crime Group which is allegedly engaged in a variety of violent acts in Southern California, and across the United States and Canada: https://t.co/k5sicpVbIc
Imagine your Son, Brother, or Father is taken by local police on the pretext of investigations
They torture them and kill them. They burn their bodies at cremation grounds without any identification or throw them in the river that would take away their bodies to other country
They don’t tell YOU or YOUR FAMILY
You go door to door to find them, and can’t find answers. You are waiting that one day they would come, and you are STILL waiting.
And, waiting……because you still don’t know what happened to them?
Thats the story, legacy and history of S. Jaswant Singh Khalra, a Banker in Punjab, who by chance discovered over 25,000 killings by Punjab Police and was later killed by the same police as he was asking questions on the behalf of those missing persons families.
Sikhs have seen genocide during 1984 riots and that often gets to the news.
But, you didn’t know killings of over 25,000 innocent people and potentially over 100,000 as one estimate said, and this is the genocide that was hidden and anyone who raised voice was also killed, including over 2000 police officers who spoke up.
If police is the killer, media is suppressed and judiciary is silent, what would you do? How could you find answers or justice?
#Satluj movie