Chittisinghpora: Today You say “Headey did it. Yesterday-Sohail Malick Before it was Tom Dick or Harry.” Fine. But why can’t you allow Judicial Process?

Chittisinghpora: Today You say “Headey did it. Yesterday-Sohail Malick Before it was Tom Dick or Harry.” Fine. But why can’t you allow Judicial Process?

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27 October 2010 at 18:59

Chittisinghpora Massacre: Today Govt says Headey did it. Yesterday-Tom did it, earlier it was Dick.  But why Govt can’t u allow judicial process?

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May be it carried no news value, this press note couldn’t find place in any of the newspapers of the region despite it was personally delivered to the concerned correspondents.

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Amritsar, Oct.26 . Memories of Chittisinghpora Kashmir massacre of 35 Sikhs have now been refreshed as the carnage took place 3 days before the arrival of US president Bill Clinton in India. On the proposed visit of President Barrack Obama some organizations have written to him that he should be alerted that any thing can happen to minorities here in view of Indo-Pak tensions.

On the other hand the media has reported that Pakistani-American Lashkar operative David Coleman Headley has revealed to US and Indian investigators that Chittisinghpora massacre, was carried out by the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba. Today some papers have carried an interview of the survivors of  Chittisinghpora massacre especially one Karamjeet Singh.

Sometimes back the security forces had produced before press a Pakistan trained terrorist Suhail Mallick of Sialkot Pakistan who was shown confessing that it was his gang who killed Sikhs of Chittisinghpora.

In a press note issued by B.S. Goraya, Secretary of an Amritsar based organization Justice for Chittisinghpora Sikh Massacre (JCSM) has however commented on these developments and appealed to the Govt that if it really relies on the statement of Headley it should produce this as piece of evidence before the court. Goraya has alleged that the court case in this case at Sri Nagar stands stalled for the last about 8 years. Goraya has also demanded that so for Chittisinghpora case is concerned the impunity clause of army be withdrawn and army should also be asked to participate in proceedings.

Goraya has reminded that the confession of Suhail Mallick could not withstand the examination of court and was found out to be extracted under duress. 

Expressing complete faith in judicial process and CBI investigation Goraya has also demanded that the CBI report be made public. Goraya claims that the CBI Director U.C. Mishra had on Sept. 30, 2005 claimed before the press that investigation in the case was complete and CBI would be launching prosecution but nothing happened.

Goraya said that JCSM had asked a question under the RTI but unfortunately in all the 7 replies of various officers of Ministry of Home Affairs have pretended ignorance and no appropriate reply given.

Goraya says that the former J&K Chief Minister has stated that the role of the then BJP Govt in this case is suspicious and that he was prevented from launching a judicial inquiry in the case.

As for the as the statement of Karamjit who slipped away from the massacre spot and survived  which has been carried by a Chandigarh based paper is concerned Goraya said the human right groups have clearly state that Karamjit is not a reliable witness.

In the light of above Goraya alleged that Headley’s might be another tutored statement. He commented that to hide a lie thousands of lies have to be told.

In the end B.S. Goraya has demanded that judicial enquiry in the case be ordered without any delay. He opined that delay in justice is causes more harm. It is a known fact the Sikh psyche doesn’t forget such incidences.

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Bill Clinton, President USA, was visiting India on March 24, 2000. 3 days before, 35 innocent Sikhs of Chittisinghpura Kashmir, were massacred by unidentified gunmen. Indian Govt and media raised a cry that Muslim terrorists did it. Bill Clington however said that killers were Hindu militants. The Govt has even halted the probe and prosecution. Farooq Abdullah (The then Chief Minister of Indian Kashmir) has now confessed that ‘Some powers (obviously Delhi’s BJP leaders) didn't want Chattisinghpora investigated'.

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Lashkar behind Sikh massacre in Kashmir in 2000, says Headley

HT Correspondent , Hindustan Times Email AuthorNew Delhi, October 25, 2010

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/Lashkar-behind-Sikh-massacre-in-Kashmir-in-2000-says-Headley/617612/H1-Article1-617459.aspx

Pakistani-American Lashkar operative David Coleman Headley has reportedly told US and Indian investigators that the March 2000 Chittisinghpora village massacre, which took place three days before then US President Bill Clinton’s visit to India, had been carried out by the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba

India’s security establishment had always blamed the LeT and the Hizbul Mujahideen for the massacre in Anantnag district of south Kashmir.

But many others — including the US administration — doubted the claim. President Clinton condemned the massacre, but was cautious to blame “unknown groups”. Years later, writing the introduction to his then secretary of state Madeleine Albright’s subsequent book Madam Secretary: A Memoir, he is said to have blamed ‘Hindu militants’ for the attack. The reference was however, edited out by the publishers.

Strobe Talbott, then deputy secretary of state, later confirmed Clinton was never convinced the Lashkar was behind the violence.

A number of facts about the killings led to these doubts. Most important was the fact that most of those killed were Sikhs. Sikhs had never before been targeted by Kashmiri militants.

An army encounter five days later in Pathribal village, which was later found to have been staged, indicated there was more behind the Chhittisinghpur killings than met the eye.

Before the visit of President Barack Obama to India — he is expected on November 6 — the National Investigation Agency has revealed Headley had said an LeT operative called Muzzammil — aide of Lashkar’s chief military commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi — had spoken to him of his involvement in the Chittisinghpora massacre.

"I recollect that once Muzzammil had told me how he had gone and killed civilians in a village in south Kashmir before the visit of the then US President Bill Clinton to India. After coming to Muzaffarabad, he was initially given the charge of operations,” Headley told NIA sleuths in the presence of FBI agents.

Headley also credited Muzzammil, 34, with planning and conducting the Akshardham Temple attack in Gujarat, according to his 109-page interrogation report apart from helping with the 26/11 attacks.

The confirmation of the Lashkar role is significant in the backdrop of noises from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Syed Salahuddin, who heads the United Jihad Council — the amalgam of militant outfits active in Kashmir — has “cautioned” that Indian security agencies could carry out another massacre such as the one in Chattisinghpora and blame it on terrorists.

Indian agencies maintain Salahuddin’s statement could be an effort to draw suspicion away from the jehadis, who may well be planning a major attack.

Lashkar militant admits killing Sikhs in Chittisinghpura

Lashkar militant admits killing Sikhs in Chittisinghpura

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Indian police forces are infamous for extracting confessions from the known criminals where it fails to trace the real culprits. So how could they lag behind in the current case. The polices know that public has no memory and no one is going to ask whether the man confessing the crime is prosecuted or not or punished or not. And so it happened with this case of Sohail Mallik or be it James Haidley of USA. Here is report on similar confession despite the fact that there exist CBI investigation report which the Govt has buried for the time being.

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http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/dec/31sikh.htm

A Pakistani militant, arrested in connection with the March massacre of 35 Sikhs in Chittisinghpura in Kashmir, has admitted to his being a member of the killers's team and his affiliation to the Pakistan-based Lashkar e Taiyba terrorist group.

Suhail Malik of Sialkot, interviewed by a New York Times correspondent in an Indian prison, has said he had no regret that he participated in the massacre, which coincided with US President Bill Clinton's visit to India.

Malik said he had opened fire because he had been ordered to do so by his commanders and that he knew nothing about the plot to kill the Sikhs until he stood in an orchard where the 35 people were killed.

"I used my weapons when commanded... We are told what to do and not why. Afterwards, we were told not to talk about it," 18-year-old Malik said.

"The Koran teaches us not to kill innocents. (But) if Lashkar e Taiyba told us to kill those people (Sikhs), then it was right to do it. I have no regrets," he added.

He said in the NYT interview that "when I was sent here from Pakistan, I was told the Indian army kills Muslims. It treats them badly and burns their mosques and refuses to let them pray. They must be freed from these clutches," he said.

Malik said Lashkar had taught him marksmanship and mountain climbing. He sneaked into India in October 1999, with the equivalent of $ 200 in expense money. He took part only in two attacks before Chittisinghpora -- one on an army outpost and the other on a bus carrying soldiers.

In Sialkot, his father insisted he did not know to which group Malik belonged even though a Lashkar was on one of the walls of the room in which NYT correspondent Barry Bearak interviewed him, the newspaper wrote. And his "favourite" uncle declined to answer any question, but lashed out at Christians and Jews.

Malik agreed that he is likely to spend the rest of his life in an Indian prison. Terming this as "a dreary prospect," he said he would have preferred the "glory of martyrdom."

He said he had attended a government school but like many boys in Pakistan, had switched over to a madrassa, a Muslim religious academy. He said he heard the speeches of Lashkar leaders while studying in Lahore and trusted their vision of the world and trusted still.

In Lahore, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, a Lashkar leader and its parent organisation the Markaz Ad-daawa Wal Irashad, refused to recognise Malik when his photograph was shown to him.

When told about Malik's reverence for him and his confession, Saeed looked at the picture and said, "We do not believe in killing innocents. I have condemned this very massacre," the newspaper wrote.

He glanced at the picture a second time and said he doubted Malik had ever belonged to Lashkar. "It is very easy to extract statements with torture. Look, you can see he is handcuffed and not free to talk," he added.

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