Chapter 10 - MILITARY ATTACK ON AKAL TAKHT AVENGED

Who so ever in the past committed a sin of destroy­ing and desecrating the Golden Temple and the Akal Takht had to suffer the penalty of death at the hands of the brave Khalsa. History of the Sikhs bears testimony to such past events but some of the cynical Hindus scoffed at such heroic deeds. While in the wake of brutal mili­tary operations in Punjab there was a wide spread re­sentment and rumour afloat in the air that Indira Gan­dhi, the Machiavellian Princess, would soon meet her nemesis as was met by Massa Rangar, the cynic Hindus laughed it off. They discarded that historic event as a myth of myths. They never believed that Sukha and Me-htab Singh, the valiant Sikhs, had beheaded Massa Ran­gar for his sin of committing desecration of the Golden Temple in the eighteenth Century A.D. However, keep­ing alive the heroic traditions of the Khalsa and the glo­rious history of the Sikhs two young Sikhs, Bhai Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, inspired by the philosophy of Guru Gobind Singh, on one fine morning of 31st October 1984, gunned down Indira Gandhi right in her fortified official residence and right under the nose of her scores of security guards, and thus avenged the destruction and desecration of the Golden Temple and Akal Takht. These two brave Sikhs greatly surpassed even the heroic and glorious deeds of Sukha and Mehtab Singh.

The Sikhs who were languishing under the oppres­sive Army rule in Punjab, un-mindful of the impending danger, heaved a sigh of relief but it proved only momen­tary. The fanatic Hindus, who were already motivated by Indira Gandhi and other Congress leaders including Rajiv Gandhi, to teach the Sikhs a lesson, were mobilised and organised in the late evening of that fateful day. When Rajiv Gandhi arrived at the All India Insti­tute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, at about 3.30 P.M. and saw her mother in the shape of a lump of flesh, he flew into rage. In a fit of rage he instructed the Congress leaders present there to fan out and teach the Sikhs a lesson. He added that he did not want to see the ugly face of any Sikh. At that time he was not sworn in as the Prime Minister. Perhaps for that reason the Congress hordes did not take his cynical utterance seriously. None­theless they directed the Congress activists to do some­thing to satisfy the whims of their boss. But what they simply did was that they manhandled the Sikh passers by and damaged their scooters and cars by which they were travelling in the vicinity of the Medical Institute. Such sporadic incidents occurred in other parts of Delhi too. But when Rajiv Gandhi succeeded to the throne of Delhi in the evening and was sworn in as the Prime Min­ister of India the situation took a traumatic turn. Rajiv Gandhi was hell bent to teach the Sikhs a bitter lesson to avenge his mother's assassination. The Congress Min­isters and other leaders now realised that they would have to take some drastic action against the Sikhs in order to please their new blood thirsty Prime Minister. They chalked out a sinister and dangerous plan during the night which was meant to be implemented the next morning. Prominent Congress leaders, Harkishan Lal Bhagat. Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar, Lalit Makan, Arjun Dass, Dharam Dass Shastri and the like were made in-charge of their respective constituencies and were as­signed the defined duties to ensure the successful imple­mentation of the "Operation Genocide" of the Sikhs.

These Congress Ministers collected hundreds of criminals, professional killers, bandits, marauders, loot­ers and plunderers. during the night intervening 31st Oc­tober and 1st November and let them loose like hungry wolves in Delhi to carry out the "Operation Genocide." The residential houses, shops, business and commercial establishments belonging to the Sikhs were identified and marked to be made targets of attack by the arsonists, rap­ists, killers and the plunderers. All sorts of weapons and incendiary material to carry out the diabolic plan were collected in large quantities and handed over to the killer Hindu gangs. In short the stage was set during the night to launch a major onslaught against the Sikhs the next morning.

In order to give free hand to the Hindu-killer-gangs the Delhi police and the Central Reserve Police Force were passed on secret instructions to keep their hands off when the criminally motivated gangs were in action. Further, to give an ample time to these organised criminal Hindu gangs to accomplish their assigned diaboMc job the gov­ernment declared that the dead body of Indira Gandhi would be preserved in the Teen Murti for three days to enable the people to pay homage and simultaneously cur­few for an indefinite period was also clamped in Delhi. The hidden motive behind all this game plan was to per­mit the killer gangs to move about in the city freely and to prevent movements of others who could have saved the Sikhs.

What happened in Delhi from 1st November to 5th November was a horrible holocaust. Almost all shops, business, commercial establishments and industries were first plundered and then set ablaze. The hapless and in­nocent Sikhs, old and young alike, were mercilessly mas­sacred in thousands. Hundreds of them were literally burnt alive in their houses as well as in the open streets and on the roads. The barbaric Hindus frenziedly danced and sang around the burning and crying Sikhs as though they were celebrating some festival. Hundreds of Sikh women and girls were gang raped in the presence of their fathers, brothers, sons. and husbands. Then the males wore brutally slaughtered hpfoi'p the eyes of raped and ravished ladies.

Some of the brave Sikhs, who dared to resist and combat the killer Hindu gangs, were fired at by the Para Military Forces and disarmed so as to let them fall easy prey to the monsters. In many cases the Para Military Forces gunned down the Sikhs in view of the organised killers simply to boost their morale and signal them to carry on with loot, plunder and murders without any hin­drance.

Under a well considered vicious plan the military was called in Delhi and ostensibly given orders to shoot at sight the arsonists and the killers of the Sikhs but not a single shot was fired by the Army during its deploy­ment for full four days. On the contrary, the Army wit­nessed all monstrous crimes as silent spectators. It is crys­tal clear from their passive role that the Army was de­ployed in the city to convey false information to the gen­eral public and the world at large that the Indian gov­ernment had taken all necessary steps and precautions to prevent and control the calamitous situation.

It was not all that only the killer Hindu gangs of Delhi were let loose like mad and ferocious dogs to pounce upon defenceless innocent Sikhs, the Congress leaders transported hundreds of such valves in buses and trucks from the neighbouring villages of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the pretext that they had come to pay hom­age to the dead Indira Gandhi. As a matter of fact they were brought to Delhi to expedite and complete the geno­cide of the Sikhs by the time the dead body of Indira Gan­dhi was cremated on 3rd of November. I observed that the killers did not have the slightest sign or expression of grief or sorrow on their faces. Rather, they were smil­ing and laughing and dancing as though they had come to see some fair or festival.

It was not only in Delhi that the Sikhs were merci­lessly massacred. The same naked monstrosity was in dis- play in other states too, especially those ruled by the Congress Party.

At least five thousand Sikhs were slaughtered in Delhi alone, the same number that had been killed by the Indian Army during the Operation Blue Star.

This genocide of the Sikhs was committed by the barbaric Hindus without any fear of retaliation in Pun­jab because Punjab was already reeling under the repres­sive rule of the Army.

It would be a partial truth to say that only some of the Congress Ministers and leaders had masterminded and organised the genocide of the Sikhs. The real but invisible force behind this great holocaust was Rajiv Gan-dhi himself, the ruthless Prime Minister of India. This fact stands proved by his own confessional statement when he publicly declared that when a big tree falls the earth shakes. If this deviqus justification of the genocide is supposed to be held tenable then why the earth did not shake when Mohari Das Karam Chand Gandhi was gunned down by Nathu Ram Godse, a Marathi Brahmin, on 30th January 1948? Should it be believed that Indira Gandhi was greater than M.K. Gandhi who is revered and remembered by the Congress as the father of the na­tion? Not a single Maratha Brahmin was even manhan­dled not to talk of having been killed. Why? Because in that case both the killer and killed were Hindus and Brah-mans. All this proves that the genocide of the Sikhs was masterminded and organised by Rajiv Gandhi himself.

All this naked barbarity, brutality and monsterity brazenly displayed by the fanatic Hindus in carrying out the genocide of the Sikhs is not a new development in their character and culture viz a viz the non Hindus. They have inherited this criminal and outrageous element of character from their remote ancestors, the Indo-Aryans who had invaded the Indo-Pak subcontinent in about 1500 B.C.. conquered it and made it their homeland. Their kith and kin, the Indo-Aryans, have alluded to Indo-Aryans in Zend Auestea in the following words :-

(1) "You Devas, sprang out of evil spirits, who take possession of you by intoxication, teaching you manifold arts to deceive and destroy mankind, for which arts you are notorious every where."
(Yasna - 32)

(2) "I forsake the Devas, the wicked, bad false, untrue, the originators of mischief, who are most baneful, destructive, the basest of all beings."
(Yasna - 12)

The Devas here are alluded to the Indo-Aryans whose remote descendants the present day Hindu are.

Their bestial character remains dormant when they are subdued and enslaved by a superior force but as soon as they regain freedom and become rulers, their inher­ent character becomes visible. This was clearly manifested in the outrageous geno.cide of the Sikhs. So it is not a flurry of their ferocity. In fact it is an age old bestial habit of the Hindus which it will recur again and again till they are enslaved by some future superior power.