GHULAMI (SLAVERY) DAY - August 15

August 14th, 2006 by admin

AUGUST 15 - GHULAMI (SLAVERY) DAY

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While Pakistan and India celebrate their “independence” this August 14 / 15, countless Sikh widows and mothers will continue to live with poverty and injustice while no charges are laid on the murderers of their husbands and sons; and countless Sikh activists will continue to suffer inhumaine torture as political prisoners without fair trial; and all Sikhs around the world will continue to live under the shadows of an extremist movement in the Indian government, and RSS-infiltrated Sikh institutions like the SGPC, working to destroy the Sikh faith and continue to keep the Sikhs as slaves.

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PUNJAB: DIVIDED

August 15, 1947 - “The Sikh Homeland handed over to the Hindus against the wishes of the Sikh nation and divided into East and West Punjab. Punjab was divided into East and West Punjab. A major segment of the Sikh community was uprooted from their ancestoral land and forced to migrate to India. This day marks the “Independence day” for India. Though citizens of India, the Sikh coumminty encoutered organized and pre-meditated killings of their members, lootings of all their worldly possessions, and general human suffering and deprivation that is unparalleled in the history of humankind. Over two lakh Sikhs gave their lives in search of freedom while being forcibly migrated to East Punjab. However, untill today the independence promise remains unfulfilled for the Sikh community. The community itself continues to persists in petty internal squibled, allow others to dictate terms, and is unable to establish its own sovereign state where Sikhs may prosper without any restriction. More than the lost lives, dearer than homes and lands left behind, was the Holy Nankana Sahib, the birth place of Guru Nanak Dev. Numerous other historical gurudwaras were also left behind with their fates unknown.” - “Human Geography” section, on page 33 of the September 1994, Volume 42:9, No. 489, issue of The Sikh Review.

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Click here for a Map of Undivided Punjab

PREFER DEATH TO LIFE AS A SLAVE

“No matter how much we talk, no matter how much we boast, until it is ingrained in the mind of every son of a Sikh, of every old man, of every mother and sister, that we are slaves, we shall not be able to throw off the yoke of slavery and achieve freedom. Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave; when he does not consider living (as a slave) worthwhile. Only then one gets rid of slavery, never otherwise.” - Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhinderanwale (Speech delivered on September 20, 1983 at the annual conference of the All India Sikh Students’ Federation, held on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of 18 Sikhs at Chowk Mehta)

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