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| April 4th, 2012 | |
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Ensure India drops the noose, Dal
Khalsa tells U.N. Delegation submits memo to UN official in Geneva |
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the light of the UN resolution passed on September 20, 2010 appealing
to all nations to observe a moratorium on the death penalty if they
are not agreeable to passing a legislation abolishing it, the Dal
Khalsa's European units has approached the world body to influence
'India to continue its undeclared moratorium and work towards
abolishing death penalty. |
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| February 25th, 2012 | |
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NCTC: A dangerous proposal, terrific
idea Designed to stifle the dissenting voices under the garb of combating terrorism |
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Indian government has mooted a proposal to set up a National Counter
Terrorism Centre (NCTC) as a multi-agency centre with an aim to
combat the so-called terrorism in the country. The proposal has
been put on hold for the time being after various Chief Minister’s
have raised their objections describing centre’s move as an encroachment
on the powers of state governments. The organization has shot off a letter of dissent to the Home Minister Mr. P. Chidambram urging the Indian government to evolve methods for peaceful conflict resolution, by removing the causes of violence as well as making the existing agencies accountable to people and Parliament. The letter has asked the GOI to shelve the idea of creating the new “anti-terror super body”. |
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| January 26th, 2012 | |
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On India’s Republic Day, Dal Khalsa upholds
Sikh sovereignty Sends memo to PM Dr Manmohan Singh describing 'India as a land of injustice' and an opportunistic state |
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Prime Minister,  As
Punjab goes to the polls on Jan 30, the political landscape of the
state is devoid of issues and concerns. All parties in a fray are
resorting to populism of the worst kind, mocking the population
of the state. A proud Punjabi people, believing in “Kirat” –honestly
doing one’s duty to earn a living, have been reduced to holding
the begging bowl for freebies and largesse from a state whose fiscal
policies are teetering on creating and fostering systems of inequitable
distribution of wealth, loot of natural resources and more expenditure
on defence than health and education. |
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| January 25th, 2012 | |
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Letter to US Ambassador on Jay Leno's remarks: ‘Freedom of speech’ is not a license to offend |
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is a widespread protest from the Sikh community against US chat
show host Jay Leno for his ‘disrespectful’ remarks on the holiest
of Sikh shrines - the Golden Temple. The Dal Khalsa has shot off
a letter to US Ambassador stationed at New Delhi seeking an apology
from Jay Leno and urging the US administration not to defend him.
During his show last week, Leno passed off a visual of the Golden
Temple as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's summer
vacation home. Notably, this is not the first time that Jay Leno
had made snide remarks against the Sikh community. He has offended
the Sikhs thrice in a row. |
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| December 10th, 2011 | |
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On World Human Rights Day, Dal Khalsa sends
memo to HRW Cataloguing incidents of rights violations of past one year in Punjab Describes cane-charging on protestors an art of public torture |
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 Taking
up the cases of denial of civil liberties of common citizens in
addition to political dissenters, the organization has invited the
US-based Human Rights Watch to probe “the continuing abuse of human
rights in Punjab.”Marking the 63rd World Human Rights Day, the group has, in a six-page missive addressed to the international watchdog’s office in New York, listed the instances of “custodial deaths, violations of rights of political dissenters and common citizens over the past one year (2011).” |
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