[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 28869]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



    COUNCIL OF KHALISTAN LETTER IN NEW YORK POST ALLEGES RELIGIOUS 
                          PERSECUTION IN INDIA

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                         HON. JOHN T. DOOLITTLE

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, November 4, 1999

  Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Speaker, I would like to call the attention of my 
colleagues to a letter that appeared on Wednesday, November 3, 1999, in 
the New York Post by Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of the Council 
of Khalistan. It reveals the religious persecution in India.
  Christians have been actively persecuted in India in recent months, a 
pattern carried out on Sikhs, Muslims, and others.
  I urge all my colleagues to read the attached letter, which I am 
placing in the Record.

                 [From the New York Post, Nov. 3, 1999]

                     Religious Persecution in India

       Thank you, Rod Dreher, for an excellent article (``Pope's 
     passage to India may be most perilous yet,'' Oct. 28) 
     exposing the ``Hindu brownshirts'' who run India.
       The religious persecution of Christians has reached 
     unparalled proportions, as Dreher aptly points out. But it is 
     not just Christians who have suffered severe religious 
     persecution. India has killed over 200,000 Christians, over 
     250,000 Sikhs, more than 65,000 Muslims and tens of thousands 
     of Assamese, Manipuris, Tamils, Dalits and others since its 
     independence. Thousands of minorities, especially Sikhs, 
     remain in Indian jails as political prisoners without charge 
     or trial.
       The Western world must not accept this pattern of religious 
     tyranny.

                                      Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh,

                                             Council of Khalistan,
                                     Washington D.C. (via e-mail).

     

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