The sucker @AbhinandanSekhr, who laughed and smirked over thousands of Punjab police killings by his friendโs uncle, today talks of police brutality.
Donโt forget, this guy sang โเคคเฅเคจเค เคคเฅเคจเค เคคเฅเคจ, เคคเคพ เคฐเคพ เคฐเคพโ on wiping up of a full generation of youth in fake encounters.
Every fake identity required a dead body. Who were the nearly 300 unidentified dead whose remains were used to erase murderers and give them a new life?
This is news from 2000. For many years, skeletons kept washing up in the canals originating from the Satluj.
The police even avoided recording the discovery of these skeletons.
What a revelatory interview by Satluj director @HoneyTrehan: One of the edits asked by CBFC was to change Trilokpuri (a locality in Delhi where Sikhs killed in 1984) to โKhanpuriโ!
"The anti-Muslim agenda was being pushed. It was so casual for them."
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Those who killed innocent people, denied justice, concealed the truth about Sikh genocide,or supported human rights violations should be held accountable before the people. Their official state honors should be withdrawn, & they should face social boycottโ https://t.co/dMZedtJOuz
Parroting someone who was at the forefront of whitewashing and justifying systemic crimes against humanity as a stenographer is a great look on you Sir!
Paramjit Kaur Khalra @KaurKhalra blames all parties - Congress for eliminations & disappearances; SAD- BJP for siding with the accused officers ; & AAP for convicted cops.
I have just finished watching #Satluj on YT after the controversial ban on the film from an OTT platform.
It is slow but hard-hitting. Arjun Rampalโs character in the film terms what happened in Punjab in the 1990s, a genocide. The film tells us about the disappearance of an incredibly brave human rights defender, Mr. Jaswant Singh Khalra. He was extrajudicially executed in the 90s and his body was never found. Diljit Dosanjh does a fine job playing JSK.
By banning the film the government has inadvertently made the film even more of a must see. Frankly, I think films like Satluj should be part of our continuing education as a society. What sort of national unity can be built if it is premised on the suppression of the deep trauma of an entire state? This film expresses the trauma an entire population lived through. Banning it wonโt make what happened go away. Allowing it to be aired means allowing some of this group trauma to find its way into the light.
Is Satluj a "well-made" movie or "propaganda" for a political cause?
@MnshaP, @AbhinandanSekhr, @Shardool_, joined by @HartoshSinghBal critique the portrayal of Jaswant Singh Khalra and the danger of distorting historical facts.
Tune into NL Hafta: https://t.co/ZR22ziXXG2
For last 10 days, #Satluj has been screened across Punjab & beyond. Not a single unpleasant incident has been reported , People are organizing these screenings on their own. If telling the truth is seen as a threat to peace, perhaps it exposes ur guilty conscience & ur 'nation '
This documentary was produced in 2016 by @SikhSiyasat as a tribute to Bapu Chaman Lal, a prominent human rights defender who lived for 100 years. For a quarter-century, he waged a relentless legal battle seeking justice for his son, Gulshan Kumar, who was extrajudicially murdered by Indian police and falsely branded as a militant. Tragically, Bapu Chaman Lal passed away on July 1, 2016, before justice could be served.
India has maintained systemic impunity through a variety of policies and practices, including by rewarding and promoting security officials responsible for crimes against humanity and the murder of human rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalra: #Satluj https://t.co/ilwxu4vPuA
1/ The evidence of former Punjab DGP KPS Gill โs atrocity crimes is unequivocal, extensive, and damning. Gill and other senior officials bear responsibility for widespread & systematic murder, enforced disappearances, torture, and other crimes against humanity in Punjab.
โ๐พPaper trail ended where rivers began
1992 Pioneer report describes another disposal method: bodies dumped in canals. If bodies never entered municipal cremation system, they left no comparable documentary trail. That's an important distinction when discussing Khalra's findings.
@darab_farooqui โ๐พYou cannot count what was deliberately made uncountable.
This 1992 Pioneer investigation reported bodies surfacing in Punjab's canals and allegations that many more were disposed of in waterways, beyond any municipal register.