Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 13: Sikh United Front (SUF) Chairman, Sudershan Singh Wazir has demanded setting up of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in India, headed by a Supreme court judge to look into the fake encounters and genocides which have happened in the country since 1980 onwards.
Talking to media-persons here Wazir, who was accompanied by representatives of several other organizations called upon the Government to immediately setup a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to probe in detail the killings in fake encounters in all the States of the Country and the acts of genocide committed by the State and non-State actors since 1980 till date and punish those who were responsible for these killings.
While quoting the recent submission made by CBI to Punjab and Haryana High Court in which the agency has said that it cannot investigate 6733 fake encounters committed by Punjab Police since 1984 to 1995 as the time-lapse and fading of the memory of the witnesses are not allowing us to investigate the fake encounters properly. “The investigating agency seems to be either incompetent or busy in other matters which are perhaps more important than looking into these heinous crimes,” he remarked.
Wazir referred to the genocide during all the communal riots which have happened in various parts of the country during past decades and said that the failure of the premier investigating agency to probe the Punjab fake encounters speaks volumes about the conditions prevailing in the nation.
He called upon all the right thinking people of the country to come forward and raise their voice against this menace of fake encounters and genocides happening anywhere in India which is an embodiment of democracy and secularism. He referred to the long drawn agitation of mothers and daughters in Kashmir who have been agitating to look for their missing young children and nothing has come out about the disappearance of all those youth, same as the case in the Punjab and many other regions of the country.
The leaders of various Sikh bodies said that Sikhs have been the defenders of the borders of the country and the rich culture and heritage of India, even during Mughal era and British Raj, the sacrifices of other martyrs belonging to all communities are commendable and should not be forgotten.
Prominent among those present included- Darbinder Singh, Rajinder Singh, Karan Singh Bali, Ravinder Singh, Sewak Singh, Prof Yudhvir Singh, Mohinder Singh and others.
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