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Ruling pending on diplomatic immunity for Kamal Nath from US trial

September 22, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Yesterday, a preliminary hearing was held to determine whether Kamal Nath, an accused organizer of the anti-Sikh pogroms in November 1984 in India, would be granted diplomatic immunity from the civil trial proceeding in the United States.  The case is being pursued by Sikhs for Justice on behalf of surviving victims of the mass murder of thousands of Sikhs more than 25 years ago in India.  The US Judge who is overseeing the case is now considering the issue of […]

Categories: 1984, News Bits • Tags: 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, India, Judge Robert Sweet, Kamal Nath, New York, Pannun, Sikh, Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, U.S. Federal Court, United States

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Tejinder Singh Bhullar fights to save his brother in India

August 22, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

“I’m really proud to be an American, because I know I could get justice over here,” Bhullar said. “But in India, if you are a Sikh, there’s a good chance you won’t see justice.” — Live Oak, California resident Tejinder Singh Bhullar is quoted in a local article about the fight to save his brother – Devinderpal Singh Bhullar – from being executed on questionable grounds in India.

Categories: News Bits • Tags: California, Capital punishment, Davinderpal Singh Bhullar, Devender Pal Singh Bullar, Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, India, judicial murder, Live Oak, Tejinder Singh Bhullar

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The mixed emotions around Indian Independence Day

August 15, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

For many people of South Asian heritage across the world, August 15th is a time of celebration.  Today is the anniversary of the independence of India and Pakistan from British rule in 1947.  However, it also marks one of the most tragic events in human history: the land that was ruled by the British for over a century was to be partitioned along religious lines, resulting in one of the largest mass migrations of people in human history. Despite the enormity […]

Categories: Resources • Tags: 1947 Partition Archive, British Raj, India, Oakland Tribune, Pakistan, Partition of India

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The “burly, tough and slightly grim” Sikhs

June 23, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

They are the burliest men on the face of the planet – tough and capable and slightly grim. If human life survives the present chapter of Man’s history, the Sikhs, for sure, will still be on the map. — An excerpt from a post on SikhChic of an interesting essay from 1958 by British historian Arnold J. Toynbee in which he wrote about the partition of the Sikh homeland in 1947.   The partition of Punjab was carried out by the departing British rulers […]

Categories: Picture of the Day • Tags: Arnold J. Toynbee, India, Margaret Bourke-White, Pakistan, Partition of India, Punjab

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The most powerful woman in the world

November 17, 2010 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

During the Obama trip to India, First Lady Michelle Obama met in New Delhi with young girls from schools around India.  A group of them were from Amritsar (if the Obamas won’t go to Amritsar…).  One of those girls had a question: Manpreet asked another tough question: whether Mrs. Obama or the President had to apologize first after they get into a fight. “She said: ‘Of course the President makes up first’,” the girl said, drawing giggles from the rest of the group. […]

Categories: News Bits, Politics • Tags: Amritsar, Barack Obama, India, Michelle Obama

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How does Obama disappoint the Sikhs? Let us count the ways.

November 10, 2010 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Ms. Kaur stated, “For the widows and survivors there is no difference between the Indian government who has been denying justice to the Sikhs for the past twenty six years and the Obamas who ignored their pleas.” It seems Obama can’t catch a break when it comes to disappointing the Sikhs during his trip to India.  First, he wouldn’t visit the Golden Temple, allegedly to avoid muslimish optics. Then, the TSA turban-screening announcement hit just as he was in India.  […]

Categories: News Bits, Politics • Tags: 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Barack Obama, India, Sikh genocide

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Remembering the Sikh genocide of 1984

November 3, 2010 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

In India, thousands of Sikhs were slaughtered by Hindu mobs in the days after Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984: Khushwant Singh realized “what Jews must have felt in Nazi Germany.” He concluded: “The killing assumed the proportions of a genocide of the Sikh community.” To this day, Sikhs are still awaiting justice for this massacre. See The Sikh Genocide Project for a thorough recounting of the events leading to the […]

Categories: 1984 • Tags: India, Indira Gandhi, Sikh genocide

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