Operation Woodrose

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Sangat Ji I hope that you are all well. Sorry for the late blog entry but I have been very busy today, although now I am free I wanted to bring to your attention something which is very rarely discussed with regards to the events of Sikh history. Operation Woodrose.

Innocent Sikhs murdered during Operation Woodrose,
On the left a young boy! This is the work of the 'largest democracy
in the world'!

Operation Woodrose was known to be another military operation carried out by the Indian government during June-September 1984, the aftermath of Operation bluestar. There was one sole purpose for Operation Woodrose and that was to kill any Sikh man/boy. These were the orders given by the government to flush out what they call 'terrorism' and this was done by arresting, interrogating and I use that term loosely, and murdering these men/boys. Now somebody please care to explain how boys as young as 5 or 6 years old can be labelled 'terrorists' when they are just infants? Also someone please tel me, when we have not committed any terrorist crimes, why are we being labelled as terrorists? Innocent men and boys were killed across the Punjab, with the death toll rising into the thousands!

Have a guess who was the spearhead for this operation? That's right KPS Gill, a so called Sikh led this operation against his own kind. A tactic that the police would use in order to mislead the public of India is that they would make the death of some if not all Sikhs look like battle encounters when in reality the police would kill them, then place a gun next to the body in order to create a fake encounter. What they would do is firstly order the Sikh man or boy to run for their life while pointing a gun at them, once they started running they would shoot them on sight making sure they are dead. Then they would place a gun next to the dead body making it seem as if it was an encounter. They did this on a number of occassions with Sikhs. Furthermore the police were known to of raped many Sikh women during this operation with countless Sikh women having to endure the pain and suffering of rape not knowing that their husbands or sons were alive or not.

Another thing that the police and Indian government had done were cremate the bodies of murdered Sikhs at these private cremation grounds. They claim that they had not used this but studies by Jaswant Singh Khalra proved that in Punjab they were using over 50 cremation sites. Thousands of dead Sikhs were taken here to be cremated, evidence destroyed and all this would of been done without the families of the Sikh men/boys knowing what went on.

50,000 Sikhs were killed, Still no justice! Attack on our most Sacred shrine, desicrated by the army, Still no justice! Countless Sikh women left widowed and raped by the police, Still no justice! The Singhs and Singhnia locked up in prisons across Punjab for no apparent reason, Still no justice!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUyYmxluBDc

Sangat Ji it's time to wake up, we have gone too long suffering at the hands of the Indian government with generations of Sikhs murdered, innocent Sikhs being locked away in prison just for being Sikh. We need to unite together to really put pressure on the Indian government for justice, for freedom, for peace for the families who lost a loved one at the hands of the tyranny of the Indian government, we must do this worldwide! We are the Khalsa Panth! United we stand, Divided we fall!

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale

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Sangat Ji would just like to wish you all a good afternoon and hope that you are all well. My blog updates lately have been on the negative history regarding our community but today I've decided that I would write about a man who brought positivity to the Panth in the late 70's and 80's. Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale.

Sant Ji was born in the village of Rode, Malwa, Punjab. His father, Joginder Singh, was a farmer and a local Sikh leader and his mother was Nihal kaur. Jarnail Singh was the seventh of seven brothers and one sister. In 1965, Sant Ji had enrolled into the Damdami Taksaal (a religious school where Sikhi is taught to a very high level) in Moga, Punjab. Kartar Singh who was head of the Damdami Taksaal knew that Sant Jarnail Singh Ji was something different from the early years and quickly had become the favourite student of Kartar Singh. Kartar Singh had a fatal accident and could no longer continue his role as head, so he passed on the torch to Sant Ji who became head of the Damdami Taksaal.

As he grew older, he took the role of spreading Sikhi peacefully across Punjab. His aim was to bring those who were lost into the abyss of alcohol, drugs and laxness in religious practices such as cutting hair and eating meat back to Sikhi. Sant Ji would go from village to village, leaving a powerful impact amongst the ones who he would speak to about bringing them back to Sikhi. Many had left behind the life of drugs and alcohol and came back to Sikhi because of this great man.



Sant Ji giving a motivational speech to thousands of Sikhs in attendance,
 this is the sort of effect he had on Sikhs in Punjab, amazing!

Sant Ji was also the spearhead of the Khalistani movement in the 80's although saying he had not demanded for Khalistan but he was a very firm supporter for Khalistan (A Sikh independent state). With many if not all Sikhs in Punjab giving them his support the fight for Khalistan had begun. He was quoted saying very famously to the Indian government "if the Indian Government invaded the Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) complex, the foundation for an independent Sikh state will have been laid." This is exactly what happened as the Indian government ordered operation bluestar in order to put a halt to the Khalistani movement. Why? you may ask..quite simply because the Indian government feared Sant Ji, he was a very powerful figure in the Khalsa Panth, had the support of thousands if not millions of Sikhs worldwide!

Although it is not absolutely 100% confirmed the government claim that during operation bluestar, Sant Ji had been killed in action thus making him a Shaheed (martyr) of the Panth along with the other brave lions of the Khalsa who died fighting for the freedom of Sikhs! Some claim that Sant Ji is still alive and well and when he returns he will reactivate the fight against the government once again in order to free ourselves from the shackles of the Indian government.


What we would give to have Sant Ji back amongst us again, Sant Ji was a very powerful man who had made speeches which would move an entire village, bringing them back to Sikhi. Some may label him as a terrorist which he is not! But in the eyes of millions of Sikhs worldwide he is a Sant! (Saint) A lion of the Khalsa Panth! A Hero! We could say that in today's climate of the Sikhs fighting for justice and Khalistan that Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana has come in another form similarly to Sant Ji after all they have both done what many have either failed or just not bothered to do. Unite the Sikh Panth worldwide! We need more people like Sant Ji and Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana in our Panth, inspirational leaders to take us on to the path of justice and freedom!

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

My dream about Khalistan!

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Sangat Ji, first I wish you all a good morning and hope you are well. I had the most amazing dream last night out of the blue, maybe it is a sign of things to come! My dream was of Khalistan (Sikh homeland).

As I fell asleep late last night, in my dream the first thing that appeared to me was that i was no longer in England as everybody was speaking punjabi, there were roads just like how they are in India, there was farms with crops stretching to as far as one can see, Could hear beautiful kirtan (Sikh Hymns) going on from the gurdwara via loudspeaker echoing throughout! but the thing that stood out for me the most was everybody was wearing orange! I was amazed at how this dream had come about and it made me wonder this morning if this was a sign of things to come!

The Kesri revolution has arisen with millions of Sikhs pledging orange, showing the colour of the Kesri Nishaan Sahib on cars, outside homes, people wearing orange to create an awareness, it is simply an amazing sight to see. We finally have unity amongst each other, something which hasn't been done since the time of Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale arguably the greatest Sikh leader of all time! Bhai (brother) Balwant Singh Rajoana has united the Khalsa Panth once more and with this unity we should carry on the Khalistani movement! We should put pressure on the Indian government to give us what is rightfully ours, an independent state for the Sikh nation! The pakistani's have Pakistan, The hindus have Hindustan, now it is our turn to free ourselves from the shackles of slavery put on us by the Indian government and finally establish a Sikh homeland which we can actually call our home! Keep pledging orange Sangat Ji, keep this unity strong, we are the Khalsa Panth, we must fight for our freedom and win! Khalistan Zindabaad!

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Grooming, Blackmail and Conversion!

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The Sikh Awareness Society have done amazing seva in regards to this, please do watch the link below click on 'Sikh Awareness Society'

Sangat Ji, I hope you are all well, First of all I would like to thank you all for the support and that my blog wouldn't be a success without you all. I want to talk about a topic which has caught my eye and something that has been going on for a while. Grooming, Blackmail and Conversion!

The meaning of Kaur is princess, so how have we let our princesses become a target for these sex beasts who prey on the youth?

Sikh girls have been a main target for these sick and twisted men who feel it's ok to do what they have been doing, and this issue isn't recent, it has been going on for many years without reply. Within our own community there hasn't been much done to prevent this from happening. However I must add that it isn't just our community that has been targetted, young british white girls and other minorities have been targetted too.



Here is a news article which was published in Luton highlighting
the grooming and conversion issue, may i also stress that it is not all
muslims who do this, other people from other backgrounds
do take part in this grooming and converting process too.

The way that these dispicable men work is unimaginable, they go to extreme lengths in order to achieve what they set out to do. A known example that has been reported before is that these men would tend to spike drinks of girls, mixing a drug within the drink to make it seem as the drink was normal which makes the body to react in such a way that it leaves the person motionless, meaning that they cannot move their body at all. Once this has happened they would then rape the girl and take images of this in order to use them against the girl in a form of blackmail saying things such as if you do not convert we shall show your parents and family these indecent images, leaving the girl in a state of insecurity and making them feel as if they have no option but to convert because of the shame it would bring to the family. That would probably be the last you'd see of the girl. Another tactic used is that these horrible men (from all backgrounds not just a specific group) would start to groom the girls at a young age, mainly 12 to 13 year olds. The majority of grooming begins online with the various social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and MSN as it is easy to make a fake account and appear as somebody other than your actual self. They would groom them by buying them expensive gifts such as ipods, mobile phones and laptops making them feel special. Obviously a girl of 12 or 13 would be naive, easy to exploit because they are insecure and do not know about the world as you do when you get older. Once they reach the age of 16, they would persuade the girl to leave the house and run away with them, never to be seen again. How have we let this happen to our community? Where did we go wrong?

Not so long ago the Sikh Awareness Society covered a story of a young Sikh girl who had been groomed by what appeared to be as a muslim man and now she is still nowhere to be seen. The family have spent years worrying about their daughter and her whereabouts. Now answer this Sangat Ji, this victim of grooming, if it were your own sister or daughter wouldn't you do what you could to prevent this from happening to others? Wouldn't you fight to get your sister or daughter back? We must be aware of the world around us, it is a very dark world out there and we must be united as one to show the world we are a strong Khalsa Panth! We do not want our sisters to suffer the same fate that others have already suffered, we must rescue the sisters who have already fallen into this trap and bring them back to Sikhi! For the others we must create a full awareness in order to keep our sisters safe! I urge you all Sangat Ji to remain strong and united as one, so we can tackle this issue head on!

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

KPS Gill - Butcher of Punjab

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As I was listening to the fantastic album Jago made by Immortal Productions (must buy to be honest!) I had started to think about our Sikh shaheeds with 1984 running through my mind, I had remembered that there was one sick twisted man who had his part to play in the thousands of Sikhs killed in Punjab during that time, One KPS Gill!

This is KPS Gill - Butcher of Punjab,
has the blood of thousands of Sikhs on his hands!

KPS Gill served as Director General of Police in Punjab during 1984 where he had clearly violated human rights claiming he was stamping out terrorism. Now tell me Sangat Ji does being an innocent Sikh man, woman or child make you a terrorist? This is what the Indian government at that time had thought of us! KPS Gill and his pathetic excuse of a police force would use tactics such as fake encounters where they would raid houses belonging to Sikhs to find the men who lived there, take them out then shoot them at point blank range making sure they had died, they would then place a gun next to them to create the illusion of a fake encounter with police. The police, who we normally seek security and protection from were killing us, all down to the orders of one KPS Gill. This man had extreme ways to torture and kill innocent Sikhs. He would do things such as forcefully make a Sikh naked and drop heavy wooden logs on the legs in order to break them. He would enforce the police to cut limbs off a Sikh, as I recently watched a documentary which i will get the name of soon, in a reinactment they had ripped out the eyes of a Sikh man, they would even go to the lengths of forcing a father by beating him then forcefully making him see his own daughter naked. These were the sick and twisted lengths that the Indian police force went to on the orders of the corrupt Indian government which till this day still shows an indifference to Sikhs!  They call him Supercop in India, A police officer that has killed a generation of innocent people is a supercop? What is even worse and a kick in the teeth to us Sikhs is that he was awarded the Padma Shri award which is the 4th highest civilian honour for his work in the 1980's.

This man had commanded the operation Black Thunder where again the police/army would storm Harimandir Sahib (Golden Temple complex) to get rid of our lions of the Khalsa Panth where it is claimed that 200 men surrendered, 41 were killed and 2 committed suicide. Whether these figures are true I have no such idea but to storm our sacred shrine once again after the attrocities they caused the first time in Operation Bluestar clearly indicates that the Indian government would go to extreme lengths to eliminate the Sikh nation off the face of the earth. But as history has proven, we will not lie down and die, we shall keep fighting for Sikhi, people have tried and failed and will continue to do so! From what I've heard about the latest on this guy, he is back in Punjab and ready to halt the momentum and movement, this time he shall not succeed!

The reason why I write blogs such as this based on Sikh history is simply because I want to create an awareness for the people who do not know has happened to the Sikh nation over the years and order to remind the Sangat to never forget our history! To never forget how we have been treated by our so called 'motherland'.

Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale had said that we as a Sikh nation are slaves in India and I completely agree. The time for Khalistan has come! Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana has re-ignited the fire that was started by Sant Ji those years ago, we have built the momentum again and just like before, the Indian government fear us! We must unite as one under the Khalsa Panth and fight for our homeland Khalistan. Fight for justice!! Fight for our freedom!! Khalistan Zindabaad!! (Long live Khalistan)

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Caste System?

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Was again sitting here wondering about life and then it came to my attention that there is such a huge topic within the Sikh nation which has never been covered. The Caste System!

Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaaj abolished the Caste system
 so why is it still around today?

My first question to you all is Why have we as Sikhs adopted the caste system in to our way of life?
In Sikhi there is no such thing as a caste system, we are all equal, all brothers and sisters under the father who is Waheguru Ji. The beloved Guru's have never adopted the caste system, Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaaj abolished the caste system so why do we still follow this? Is it a cultural ideology? Sure isn't religiously based!

There are many different castes which have been thrown in to the abyss of society. We have Jatt who are meant to be the highest class, Terkhan (apologies for spelling) which is sort of middle class, Chamar which is of the low caste and many more such as Saini and Bhaman. This caste system had originated from the Hindu nation within India where they had came up with a social hierarchy to distinguish what people's status was in their homeland. So why did we adopt this way of life?

In regards to Sikhi, we are all one, we are all equal and all Waheguru's children. So why do we start sniggering at others when we see somebody of a lower status? Personally I believe there should be no caste system at all, It is a pathetic way of life to think that you are better than somebody else.

Sangat Ji may I ask you this question. You go to Nagar Kirtans, Go to the Gurdwara, Go on protest marchs for Sikh human rights what do you see? I see brothers and sisters united under Waheguru Ji, I don't see a Terkhan or a Jatt, I see a Sikh! Our identity is Sikh not anything from that pathetic excuse of a social hierarchy so I urge you all to please abolish this from our way of life, remember that Waheguru made us as equals and equals we shall remain. You are all my brothers and sisters of Sikhi and nothing different!

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Quote of the day

Here is a quote that struck me today, and I couldn't agree with it more.
Life is never about the people who act true in front of you, it's about the people who remain true behind you.
Thought I'd share this with you not only because it is true, but maybe you could learn this for yourself and apply it to yourselves, I know i can!