Mandy Bajwa

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[Ray_of_hope💫 bougainvillea lover💞 @_sparkling_ray]

Did Modi ji misspelled? just like autocorrect..

- Punjabio , Kimwe ho?

Original spelling was..

-Aandolanjivio, Kimwe ho?

Stupid Auto correct! 😬🙄

[HarshVivek Singh @HVSBanwait]

The three most vocal Sikhs against Satluj are the grandson of the then CM Beant Singh, the nephew of the then DGP KPS Gill and the former DC Amritsar in the year 1995.

The film Satluj is being hounded by the same darkness in 2026 that was challenged by Khalra saab in 1995.

[Gill @_Gill09]

ਗੱਲ ਤਾਂ ਮੂਵੀ ਰਿਲੀਜ਼ ਕਰਵਾਉਣ ਦੀ ਹੋ ਰਹੀ ਸੀ ਪਰ ਸਿਆਸਤ ਨੇ ਇਸਨੂੰ ਸਿੱਖ ਹਿੰਦੂ ਮਸਲਾ ਬਣਾ ਦਿੱਤਾ। ਹੁਣ ਲੋਕ ਅਧਿਕਾਰਾਂ ਦੀ ਗੱਲ ਛੱਡ ਕੇ ਇੱਕ ਦੂਜੇ ਦੇ ਧਰਮ ਦੇ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਨੁਕਸ ਲੱਭ ਰਹੇ ਨੇ। ਲੋਕਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਭਰਮਾਉਣ ਦਾ ਕੰਮ ਸਿਆਸਤ ਨੇ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਕੀਤਾ ਸੀ ਤੇ ਏਹੀ ਹੁਣ ਕਰ ਰਹੀ ਆ। ਓਹੀ ਲੋਕ ਨੇ ਜਿਹੜੇ ਇਹਨਾਂ ਗੱਲਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਉਲਝ ਗਏ
#Satluj

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

And now that I have seen the movie, Satluj. I can confidently say, it's not propoganda at all.

Only those who don't have a dispassionate perspective or don't understand movie making at all, will call it propoganda.

There is not an element of propoganda in the movie.

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Yesterday night I saw Satluj.

And before anything, @HoneyTrehan, my friend, you have bought you piece of eternity with this movie.

It's absolutely, heartbreakingly amazing.

Kudos. ♥️✊🏻

[Harmeen Soch @HarmeenSoch]

Punjab 95

Many people labelled and bashed me on my previous post and said, ‘show the other side too’. Here are a few more incidents of the other side. Maybe it shows the constant fear everyone lived in during those dark times. Read it from a child’s perspective who faced all this or a parent’s perspective who faced and dealt with it.

1. One fine day, my brother was encircled by a group of terrorists on multiple bikes when he was coming back from Guru Nanak Dev University towards Khalsa College where we lived. It was day time. They began driving beside him with guns in hand that were hidden inside their loyis (shawls). Khalsa College Amritsar, has two main gates as entry points. Our house was right next to first gate which was sparingly used and once inside, there were guards on duty always at the gate as well as outside the home. My brother, yet again, had presence of mind. He was driving in between their bikes and suddenly when he was near the main gate, he sped up and turned inside and shouted that the gate be closed. The guards obviously recognized him and immediately did the needful. The terrorists went away. My brother reached home sweating. To our horror, one of them came to my father’s office next day and said, “he got lucky yesterday but he won’t be tomorrow”.

2. One day we woke up and found innumerable plants placed outside our home doused with acid and a note beside it addressed to my father asking him to do something and if he didn’t, this is how the faces of all his children would look like.

3. I was playing inside campus with my friends in afternoon and someone came up to me and said, “your father has called you to room xyz on upper floor. He is waiting there right now”. As a child I was so naive that I immediately bid farewell to my friends and began walking towards that room. If you know of Khalsa College you’d know how scary and isolated the upper floors of the college are with dark corridors. There was no one around but I kept walking thinking my father would be at the far end. When I reached the specified room, it was totally dark and empty. Some confusion set in. In the meantime my parents saw my fiends go back to their homes but I was missing. When they asked the girls about my whereabouts, they told him what had happened. While I was coming down from those upper floors, my father was rushing around with his colleague looking for me. When I finally went to his office, he immediately hugged me and I remember his words so clearly even now. He was holding me by my shoulders and said, “in life if I ever need you to come to me, I will come to you myself. You are not to trust anyone ever”. I agreed and the gravity of the situation was understood only later. Someone had tried to warn my father with this action.

4. My mother received a call that my brother had been abducted. With no cell phones then and no way to verify anything, immediately fear set in. My father, mother and a friend of my father began making calls. No one knew where he was. Somehow after an ordeal of 30 mins, someone suggested going to his classroom and asking his friends if they had seen the kidnappers. When my father reached the classroom, my brother was sitting inside studying oblivious to what had happened. Someone had yet again played a dark prank. All these were warnings of impending doom. My father was always at cross-roads between Intelligence agencies, police, administration on one side and the terrorists on the other.

I could go on and on about 84. Nothing has been forgotten. Yes, ‘Satluj’ opened a pandora’s box. Emotions are running high. The reason - unresolved trauma of those dark times. Its scarred everyone who faced the brunt of it. But sadly, some refuse to believe it while others make light of it. The worst lot are those who say, “you deserved it”.

#Punjab95
#1984

[Harmeen Soch @HarmeenSoch]

“Punjab rejected separatism”

When we speak on issues of 1984 and our sufferings, after over 40 years today, it doesn’t mean we are seeking revenge or justice as justice proved to be a lost cause after so many years. At times we just want to be heard. Its cathartic to narrate and tell others what happened then. Healing has not happened. It never will. And thats a fact which the affected will have to live with till their death.

#Punjab
#1984

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Two very important things to remember in Jaswant Singh Khalra's case.

1. Khalra's 25,000 figure covers only the cremations. And cremation was just one disposal method; other bodies were dismembered and dumped in rivers, leaving no evidentiary trace.

So 25,000 is where the counting stopped, not where the killing stopped.

We may never know the true number. Cremation happened only when the police chose the municipal route, which is the sole reason any paper trail exists.

Countless others were simply dumped in the rivers, uncounted.

2. But the most important thing is what Khalra's extrajudicial murder achieved.

It sent a chilling message. Khalra had become a beacon of hope for thousands, a tiny diya of light. When that diya was extinguished, it terrified them. Thousands never reported their missing, because they feared for their own families' safety.

The state didn't just kill people. It killed the counting.

[Kartarrrrrrr @Kartarrrrrrr]

You want to take revenge for what happened centuries ago by empires which died long ago.

And we are not even allowed to talk or cry about what happened mere 30-40 years ago by people who are still alive.

#Satluj

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Bhai Hartosh,

I share your politics, and I am the last person to pull down someone on my own side. You open your piece on KPS Gill by admitting you cannot be unbiased. I respect the honesty.

But bhai, admitting you are the nephew is not the same as admitting where your evidence comes from. And your evidence has a problem you never mention.

Your table comes from the Institute for Conflict Management. Your key text, quoted at length and recommended to readers in its entirety, is Gill's own essay, Endgame in Punjab, published on https://t.co/EVbRVIWIyT, the website of that same institute.

The Institute for Conflict Management is your Mama's baby. He founded it. Who do you think we are?

You accuse Human Rights Watch of quoting Gill out of context, and your correction is what? Quoting Gill more fully, from Gill's own website, backed by Gill's own institute's numbers.

You told us you were the nephew. You did not tell us the data was the uncle's.

Second, Ribeiro. You dismiss Julio Ribeiro as a liberal favourite because he speaks against Modi today. Fine.

But you never mention that Gill was appointed Security Advisor to Chief Minister Narendra Modi in May 2002, right after Godhra, and later publicly defended Modi by putting the blame for the riots on the police and not on the political leadership.

If speaking about Modi today counts against Ribeiro, then working for Modi counts against your Mama. You cannot run the test on one man and give the other a pass.

Third, the cremations. You call the figure of 25,000 disappearances a fabrication, and on the data you may even be right.

But look at what your own correction concedes: roughly 7,650 unidentified cremations over eleven years. Your calculation, not mine.

Then you compare this to peacetime NCRB figures on unclaimed bodies. A beggar who dies on a railway platform and a man picked up from his home by the police; for you these are the same category of corpse?

Your whole NCRB comparison rests on one assumption: that the label "unidentified" was honest. That is exactly the assumption this case destroyed.

We saw it as recently as Covid. The Indian state does not hide bodies, it renames them on paper. That is why the world's excess-mortality estimates were many multiples of our official count. This is not hard to do in India today. In the 80s and 90s it was even easier.

And in Punjab it was not a suspicion, it was the finding. Executions were logged as encounters. Custody deaths were logged as escapes. The murdered were registered as unclaimed. You are citing the register to defend the man, when the register itself was the weapon.

And what sits under that register is not in dispute. The CBI confirmed 2,097 secret cremations at just three grounds in one district, and cremation workers testified that multiple bodies were often burned on firewood meant for one.

The Supreme Court called it a flagrant violation of human rights on a mass scale.

The NHRC identified 1,513 of those bodies and compensated their families, including 195 people who were in police custody immediately before they died.

Jaswant Singh Khalra, who found these bodies in the firewood registers, was abducted by the Punjab police and killed for it.

The Supreme Court upheld life sentences for the officers who did it. Not one of these facts appears in your article. Not one.

Your table of monthly killings does not answer any of this, because the charge against Gill was never the maths of the body count. It was what the state did in the dark, under his command. It was what he did in the shadows of bureaucratic cover.

And you know it. You write that accusations of custodial torture in Punjab are likely true, and that such excesses were just ordinary Indian policing. Read that sentence again, bhai.

You have admitted the torture. And your defence is that it happens everywhere. That is not a defence. That is a confession.

CONT+

[sK sidhu @sksidhuuu]

ਸ਼ੇਰਾਂ ਦੇ ਡੇਰਿਆਂ ਤੇ ਅੱਜ ਗਿੱਦੜ ਕਰਨ ਕਲੋਲਾਂ....

[Mandy Bajwa @mkb_2020]

@HarmeenSoch ❤️❤️

[Mandy Bajwa @mkb_2020]

@HarmeenSoch Not something as painful as you and your family endured.

[Mandy Bajwa @mkb_2020]

@HarmeenSoch I was raised on a farm in a small village in the heart of this movement near Batala. I have witnessed many things first hand.
Things which stay with you forever.

[Singh☬ @Singh20039]

Do these morons outside Punjab have any idea how fucking brutal the police were in the '90s? They were butchers. They wiped out an entire generation of Sikhs. And now they're glorifying these rapists and murderers while spreading hate against a movie about an honest human rights

[Deepinder Kaur @deepchauhan45]

Truth so powerful that a banker turned human right activist who never showed violence, got killed and people getting offended by it. Shows mentality of some jokers. #Satluj

[Dr. Anmol Kapoor @AnmolMD]

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

[HarshVivek Singh @HVSBanwait]

The darkness that Adv Jaswant Singh ji Khalra fought against is still there.

[Harmeen Soch @HarmeenSoch]

Punjab 95

Watching ‘Satluj’, my thoughts travel back 30 years, remembering that time when my brother and his friend were picked up for a fake encounter from outside their study centre. His friends rushed home to inform my father, who was Principal Khalsa College, Amritsar then…a hub of terrorism. We used to stay inside campus and were privy to extremism up close and front with murders occurring every other day on campus. Huddling in one room when firing would begin to coming out to blood laden roads after it stopped was common for us. I had experienced 1984 from being a toddler to my teenage years and remember vividly my father’s expression and the way he ran and took his scooter out and rushed from home on hearing this. My mother crying her eyes out. My heart sank. Even at that age I understood everything. We knew what it meant having a member of family being picked up. We knew we may never see him again. We knew if we’re lucky, we may get to see the dead body.

My brother had presence of mind. He kept saying to them that he is son of Principal Khalsa College. They didn’t care. He began narrating names of high-ups of Amritsar like DC, SSP etc asking them to verify from these people about his identity as they frequent our home often. Those who had picked him up slowed down their gypsy and asked a few questions. By that time they had reached some fields. My brother responded to each question and then it dawned on them that he is genuinely son of someone important and better not kill him. They threw the boys out and finally both my brother and his friend reached home.

He reached home…..thousands and lacs didn’t! And thats a truth many don’t want to hear!

#Punjab95
#Satluj
#Punjab
#1984