[TBP]

Nothing like democracy, eh?

[AmericanInTokyo]

I heard there was also a massacre in Nawalyathripalanitha, too.

[jumpstartme]

The Sikhs are a pawn in the game that pits Muslims against Hindus. There they are in the middle, trying to be a peaceful force of 1/2 and 1/2.

What does that get people in this country? Usually voted out of office. Imagine if we had no democracy, there'd be killings here too. /sarcasm

[Free the USA]

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According to today’s Washington Times, the Indian government has admitted that its forces were responsible for the massacre of 35 Sikhs in the village of Chithisinghpora,

Can you post the Washington Times article in which the indian govenrment admitted its forces killed the 35 sikhs?

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Officials admit army killed Kashmir civilians

ANANTNAG, India — Indian army troops hunting for terrorists involved in an attack in Kashmir killed and buried innocent civilians, and when protests by villagers forced exhumation of their bodies, they fudged DNA tests to try to prove that the remains were those of Pakistani militants, government reports have revealed.

On July 16, Mr. Abdullah announced the DNA test results to the state legislative assembly in Srinagar, saying the report established that the dead men were "not foreign terrorists, as contended by the forces, but innocent civilians."

[tracer]

The Indian government functionaries probably acted because they were embittered over having to spell "Chithisinghpora" in their official reports and other documents....

[Red Jones]

wow, i didn't know this type of thing was happening. It is very disappointing.

[AM2000]

TBP - You and your Khalistani buddies are lying again. The article from the Washington Times does not say that Indian troops massacred the 35 Sikhs from Chattisinghpura. It says that in their attempt to apprehend those who did, they killed the wrong people and then attempted a cover-up. As reprehensible as that conduct may be, the Council of Khalistan is lying about the true contents of this article - and you are propogating that lie. There is no evidence whatsoever that the Indian Government massacred those Sikhs.

I have posted the relevant article from the Washington Times below, so feel free to take a look. I trust that unlike the sources which you post from, your dedication to the Khalistani cause hasn't atrophied your reading comprehension skills.

Officials admit army killed Kashmir civilians

By Shaikh Azizur Rahman
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

ANANTNAG, India — Indian army troops hunting for terrorists involved in an attack in Kashmir killed and buried innocent civilians, and when protests by villagers forced exhumation of their bodies, they fudged DNA tests to try to prove that the remains were those of Pakistani militants, government reports have revealed.

Human rights groups frequently have reported abuses by the Indian army in the territory claimed by both India and Pakistan, but the incident is one of a few cases of excesses conceded by government officials.

On March 20, 2000, when President Clinton was visiting India, 35 Sikhs were killed in Chattisinghpura village in Kashmir by suspected Islamic militants disguised in army uniforms. India blamed Pakistan-based terrorists for the attack.

Four days later, 17 Muslim residents from three neighboring villages went missing. Simultaneously, reports emerged that five Pakistani terrorists involved in the attack had been killed in an "encounter."

Juma Khan, a 45-year-old resident of Brari Angan village, was picked up at night by soldiers without any explanation. The local police said they had no knowledge of the arrest.

"I did not know where else to go then. I thought they would not harm him because he was a family man and was not involved in anything," Mr. Khan's wife, Roshan Jan, said recently.

Two days after Mr. Khan was picked up, an army statement said five "foreign militants" from Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen holed up in a house in neighboring Panchalthan village were shot dead by army sharpshooters during a "ferocious encounter."

Bodies of those killed were buried quickly by the army without autopsies. From clothing and personal items recovered around the burial sites, villagers ascertained that the five were from among the missing villagers.

As public protests grew, the state government ordered, two weeks after the men had been buried, that the bodies be exhumed.

Although the bodies were charred, the army fatigues in which they had been clothed were mysteriously intact. Most bodies had torture marks on them. One body was headless.

State Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah ordered DNA testing to ascertain their identities. But that plan came under a cloud when two forensic laboratories said the DNA samples of the dead men's relatives had been tampered with.

"In one case, blood samples were said to belong to the mother and daughter of one victim. But not only were the samples male in origin, but both belonged to the same man," a senior scientist of Central Forensic Science Laboratory in Calcutta said this week.

An investigation by the Times of India newspaper revealed that in three cases the samples of women relatives were found to have been collected from men. Samples of another woman relative contained DNA of two individuals.

The government suspended the doctors who had collected the samples, and a new team, headed by a senior police officer, collected blood samples in April this year.

On July 16, Mr. Abdullah announced the DNA test results to the state legislative assembly in Srinagar, saying the report established that the dead men were "not foreign terrorists, as contended by the forces, but innocent civilians."

He said the federal Central Bureau of Investigation would probe the DNA tests, the guilty would be punished, and relatives of the victims would be compensated.

But Mr. Khan's wife said nothing could compensate for the loss of her husband.

[AM2000]

link - A link to the above article.

[mikeIII]

Are you, TBP, going to attempt to refute any of these posts that prove your "council's" lies, or do you find you can't face up it?

I guess you are the kind that posts false reports and promptly scamper underground!

[TBP]

http://indianterrorism.mybravenet.com/Sikhs_killed_by_Indian_army.htm

During President Clinton's visit to India in March 2000 the Indian secret agencies massacred 35 Sikh villagers in Kashmir and then blamed the Kashmiri freedom fighters for this barbaric act. The below news piece is taken from ExpressIndia.com, March 26, 2000 and according to the Indian government's plot, it points the finger at the Kashmiri Mujahideen:

Five mercenaries behind Sikh massacre killed
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

SRINAGAR, MARCH 25: Five top foreign mercenaries, suspected to be involved in the massacre of 35 Sikhs in the Kashmir Valley early this week, were on Saturday killed in a gun-battle with security forces at Panchaltran, 82 km from here, a Defence Ministry spokesperson here said.

All the militants were in combat uniform and involved in the March 20 night massacre at Chattisinghpura village, 70 km from here, in Anantnag district, he said. He said five rifles, two wireless sets and five grenades were recovered from the militants' hideout which was blasted by security forces.

Police did not rule out the possibility of more militants being involved in the encounter as the operation was still continuing.

Acting on a tip-off provided by Mohammad Yaqoob Wagey, who is believed to have taken part in the massacre and was arrested by the authorities on Thursday, the security forces cordoned off the house where the militants were hiding and launched the operation to flush them out ensuing a heavy gun battle between the two sides.

However, the Indian lie was quickly exposed as the Kashmiris and even the Sikhs themselves accused the Indian forces for this heinous act. Rattled by this development, the Indians shot dead 5 Kashmiri civilians in a fake encounter and claimed them to be Kashmiri Mujahideen responsible for killing the 35 Sikhs. However, people protested against this blatant lie and the bodies of these 5 men were exhumed and examined by forensic experts. It was established beyond any doubt that these men were innocent and that they had been liquidated as part of the Indian game plan. It also became clear that the Indian government tried to falsify evidence in order to blame these five men. Thus, the entire world came to know of India's lies with regard to Kashmir.

For a detailed account of what really happened, read Valley of Death, an article written by Pankaj Mishra. Especially note the name of the person high-lighted in the above news piece and how the Indian authorities falsely accused this innocent man of having taken part in the massacre.