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The assasination of the Indira Ghandi by two of her trusted bodyguards (both Sikhs who were intent on righting the affront and sacriledge done to the Hari Mandir and the severe damage to the Akaal Takhat and the Sikh community at large) kindled a malestrom of Hindu revenge. It was as if it was 1947 again, only this time it wasn't Hindus and Sikhs vs. the Muslims, but the Radical Hindutva bosses who whipped Hindu mobs into a frenzy of robbery, rape and murder. Even tax records were used to locate Sikhs in their homes as many Gurdwaras and Sikh businesses were put to the torch. | The assasination of the Indira Ghandi by two of her trusted bodyguards (both Sikhs who were intent on righting the affront and sacriledge done to the Hari Mandir and the severe damage to the Akaal Takhat and the Sikh community at large) kindled a malestrom of Hindu revenge. It was as if it was 1947 again, only this time it wasn't Hindus and Sikhs vs. the Muslims, but the Radical Hindutva bosses who whipped Hindu mobs into a frenzy of robbery, rape and murder. Even tax records were used to locate Sikhs in their homes as many Gurdwaras and Sikh businesses were put to the torch. | ||
The chance of violence | The chance of violence (Karnataka was far to the South of the pogroms' epicenters in the North) was probably not even on the minds of the industrious Students who were hard at work, seeking to earn a better life and a better standard of living for their 'extended families', a better life that an engineering degree would surely bring. | ||
For ten of his fellow students, all of their dreams and aspirations, their hard work, the efforts and sacrifices that their parents had gladly born, just to see their sons and daughters - live the dreams that - they could only dream, came to an end as they lay dead at the hands of another Hindu Mob. | For ten of his fellow students, all of their dreams and aspirations, their hard work, the efforts and sacrifices that their parents had gladly born, just to see their sons and daughters - live the dreams that - they could only dream, came to an end as they lay dead at the hands of another Hindu Mob. | ||
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Bhai Navneet Singh Ji Khadian was born in the year 1970, in a middle class family. At a very young age he showed his yearning to learn about Sikhi and would often go to the local Gurdwara by himself and carry out seva and listen to Katha (discourse) and Kirtan.
After completing studies at his local school he attended Bidar Engineering College in the state of Karnataka, South India. It was 1985 one year after the blood letting at the Golden Temple, a bungled attempt on the part of the Indian Army, to wrest control of the Temple compound from Jarnail Singh Bindranwale - now Sant Jarnail Singh Bindranwale and a small army of well armed and well trained sympathsizers.
The assasination of the Indira Ghandi by two of her trusted bodyguards (both Sikhs who were intent on righting the affront and sacriledge done to the Hari Mandir and the severe damage to the Akaal Takhat and the Sikh community at large) kindled a malestrom of Hindu revenge. It was as if it was 1947 again, only this time it wasn't Hindus and Sikhs vs. the Muslims, but the Radical Hindutva bosses who whipped Hindu mobs into a frenzy of robbery, rape and murder. Even tax records were used to locate Sikhs in their homes as many Gurdwaras and Sikh businesses were put to the torch.
The chance of violence (Karnataka was far to the South of the pogroms' epicenters in the North) was probably not even on the minds of the industrious Students who were hard at work, seeking to earn a better life and a better standard of living for their 'extended families', a better life that an engineering degree would surely bring.
For ten of his fellow students, all of their dreams and aspirations, their hard work, the efforts and sacrifices that their parents had gladly born, just to see their sons and daughters - live the dreams that - they could only dream, came to an end as they lay dead at the hands of another Hindu Mob.
A year later (even to this day) the men, despite being well known, behind the mass killings of Sikhs after Indira Ghandi's assasination, have gone unpunished. The Sikh population of Karnataka tried its best to make sure that this massacre would not go unpunished as well. They fought hard to see the guilty prosecuted. In the end, it seemed as if India had one law for its minorities and another for its majority. The cases were never brought to trial.
This episode greatly effected Bhai Navneet Singh. He returned to the Punjab and enrolled at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana. Here he witnessed a living hell with daily killings of young Sikhs. He heard of torture, murder, of dissappearances and the ever present rumours of discrimination in the the job market which saw jobs being metted out along social and religious grounds. All of this was to turn his life in a totally different direction.
In the end, as a well educated and pious Gursikh Bhai Sahib decided to take the paath of spiritual inspiration, a path taken from Sikh history — the time honoured path of a saint-soldier. He joined the Sikh Guerrilla group Khalistan Liberation Force (K.L.F.) under the command of Bhai Gurjant Singh Ji Budhsingwala. His courage, dedication, resourcefulness and leadership qualities soon won him great admiration across the Sikh community.
After the martyrdom of Bhai Kuldeep Singh Keepa Shekhupua, Bhai Sahib took overall command of the K.L.F. On the night of 25th February 1994, Bhai Sahib was to gain martyrdom at Jaipur, Rajasthan.
