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BREAKING: Press Statement from Her Majesty in Relation to Britain’s Involvement in 1984 Sikh Genocide

LONDON, UK (January 13, 2014)—The Sikh Council UK has shared a press statement by the Foreign and commonwealth office in relation to the recent breaking news that the British Government Provided Material Support to India in 1984 Sikh Genocide.

Statement by Her Majesty’s Government spokesperson states: “These events led to a tragic loss of life and we understand the very legitimate concerns that these papers will raise. The Prime Minister has asked the Cabinet Secretary to look into this case urgently and establish the facts. The PM and the Foreign Secretary were unaware of these papers prior to publication. Any requests today for advice from foreign governments are always evaluated carefully with full Ministerial oversight and appropriate legal advice.”

The Sikh Council UK has welcomed the positive and timely step that has been taken by the Prime Minister. The Sikh Council UK has been in contact with the FCO during the day and will continue to maintain dialogue .The Council acknowledges the efforts of Tom Watson MP , Paul Uppal MP and others in raising this matter. We would continue to urge that full disclosures takes place so we can call all understand what transpired between the two governments.

All Gurdwaras and Sikh Organisations should continue to lobby their MPs to ensure the matter is not forgotten or put on the back burner.

http://www.sikh24.com/2014/01/breaking-press-statement-from-her-majesty-in-relation-to-britains-involvement-in-1984-sikh-genocide/#.UtRoevRkQU4

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Did UK help Indira Gandhi plan Operation Bluestar, asks Labour MP

A law-maker from the Labour party claims that he has seen documents that suggest Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's administration helped Indira Gandhi plan the storming of the Golden Temple in 1984, in which security forces entered the holy site to flush out militants.

Tom Watson, MP for West Bromwich East, told the BBC Asian network channel, that he has seen "top secret papers from Mrs Thatcher authorizing SAS (Special Air Services) to collude with the Indian government."

He said the government appears to have "held back" some documents and must disclose more information. "This trying to hide what we did...not coming clean...would be a very great error," he said. (See full report on BBC)

"The documents seem to indicate Ms Thatcher knew about the sensitivity of this issue," Mr Watson told NDTV.

"I am writing to the Foreign Secretary about this matter and will raise it in the House of Commons. I expect a full explanation," the MP said on his website.

More than 1,000 people were killed in Operation Bluestar, the raid on Sikhism's holiest shrine. Five months later, in retaliation, Mrs Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/did-uk-help-indira-gandhi-plan-operation-bluestar-asks-labour-mp-470606?pfrom=home-topstories

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Source: http://www.sikhsiyasat.net/2014/01/14/uk-pm-david-cameron-orders-probe-into-british-links-to-june-1984-attack-on-darbar-sahib/

UK PM David Cameron orders probe into British links to June 1984 attack on Darbar Sahib

By Parmjit Singh

Published: January 14, 2014

London, UK (January 14, 2014): According to media report the British Prime Minister David Cameron has directed his cabinet secretary to probe and establish the facts behind claims that Margaret Thatcher’s government had helped India plan June 1984 armed attack on Darbar Sahib.

Labour MP Tom Watson and Lord Indarjit Singh had demanded an explanation after recently declassified documents indicated that Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) officials had been dispatched to help India on the planning on the Indian army attack on Darbar Sahib (Amritsar, also called Golden Temple of Amritsar that left thousands dead. June 1984 attack had unearthed a series of events of events amounting to Sikh genocide of 1984.

“These events led to a tragic loss of life and we understand the very legitimate concerns that these papers will raise. The Prime Minister has asked the cabinet secretary to look into this case urgently and establish the facts,” a UK government spokesperson said in a statement issued here yesterday night.

“The PM and the foreign secretary were unaware of these papers prior to publication. Any requests today for advice from foreign governments are always evaluated carefully with full ministerial oversight and appropriate legal advice,” he added.

The documents being referenced were released by the National Archives in London under the 30-year declassification rule as part of a series over the New Year.

A letter marked “top secret and personal” dated February 23, 1984 (copy available with the Sikh SIyasat News), nearly four months before the incident in Amritsar, titled ‘Sikh Community’, reads: “The Indian authorities recently sought British advice over a plan to remove Sikh extremists from the Golden Temple in Amritsar”.

“The foreign secretary decided to respond favourably to the Indian request and, with the Prime Minister’s agreement, an SAD (sic) officer has visited India and drawn up a plan which has been approved by Mrs Gandhi. The foreign secretary believes that the Indian government may put the plan into operation shortly.”

“These documents prove what Sikhs have suspected all along, that plans to invade the Golden Temple went back months even though the Indian government was claiming even weeks before that there were no such plans,” Lord Singh, also the director of the Network of Sikh Organisations in the UK, told.

“I have already approached the Indian government through the high commission of India for the need of an independent international enquiry to establish the exact facts. I will now raise the issue in the House of Lords,” he added.

Some of the documents have been reproduced on the ‘Stop Deportations’ blog which focuses on Britain’s immigration policy and claim Thatcher sent SAS officials to advise Mrs Gandhi on the operation.

“I’ve only seen the documents this morning (Monday) and am told there are others that have been withheld. This is not good enough. It is not unreasonable to ask for an explanation about the extent of British military collusion with the government of Indira Gandhi,” Watson, an MP for West Bromwich East, said.

He has written to UK foreign secretary William Hague and plans to raise the issue in the House of Commons.

“I think British Sikhs and all those concerned about human rights will want to know exactly the extent of Britain’s collusion with this period and this episode and will expect some answers from the foreign secretary”.

“But trying to hide what we did, not coming clean, I think would be a very grave error and I very much hope that the foreign secretary will…reveal the documents that exist and give us an explanation to the House of Commons and to the country about the role of Britain at that very difficult time for Sikhism and Sikhs,” he added.

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It just shows how much India feared the Sikhs that they involved foreign govt in their genocide plans. The commandos that had been trained got such a response from the Sikhs (simple village boys with world war 2 weapons) that they fled and asked for tanks as they could not face the Sikhs. More than half of Indian commandos were wiped out. The Sikhs completely defeated them . This should also go down in military history of the world alongside the stand at Muktsar

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It just shows how much India feared the Sikhs that they involved foreign govt in their genocide plans. The commandos that had been trained got such a response from the Sikhs (simple village boys with world war 2 weapons) that they fled and asked for tanks as they could not face the Sikhs. More than half of Indian commandos were wiped out. The Sikhs completely defeated them . This should also go down in military history of the world alongside the stand at Muktsar

You're absolutely right Paji and it was indeed Gurmail Singh Ji of Sikh Council on the line yesterday.

You know what our enemies fear the most? It's the common man of India becoming Sikh ideologically and spiritually in their millions.

Even though the military defence of innocent pilgrims at Darbar Sahib was indeed not a "loss" in that sense, the more painful defeat that can only give us shame is the drugs, alcohol, illiteracy, biraderi, infanticide, cancer and corruption situation 30 years on from 1984.

What Cameron and the Tory scum who aided Indira need to do is pledge tens of millions of development funding to help uplift our Qaum from the state we are in, as some of feeble apology for their collusion with Indira 30 years ago ... if they expect to see Sikh votes in 2015.

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