May 30, 2006

The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Bush:

Recently, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, now a professor at Georgetown University, wrote a very interesting and informative book called The Mighty and the Almighty. In the introduction, former President Clinton wrote, “During my visit to India in 2000, some Hindu militants decided to vent their outrage by murdering 38 Sikhs in cold blood. If I hadn’t made the trip, the victims would probably still be alive. If I hadn’t made the trip because I feared what militants might do, I couldn’t have done my job as president of the United States.” This places our relationship with India in a different light.

As you know, the Indian government tried to blame militant Kashmiri Muslims for the massacre. Yet in 2002, the Washington Times reported that the Indian government had admitted that its evidence to support that claim was wrong and that it had carried out the massacre itself. Reporter Barry Bearak of the New York Times and two independent investigations (one by the International Human Rights Organization and the other jointly by the Punjab Human Rights Organization and the Movement Against State Repression) found that the Indian government was responsible for this atrocity as well. The confirmation that your introduction gives to this is helpful in exposing the truth about India’s record of anti-Americanism and terrorism.

As you know, this massacre was part of a pattern of repression that has taken the lives of over 250,000 Sikhs, over 300,000 Christians in Nagaland, over 90,000 Kashmiri Muslims, tens of thousands of Muslims in Gujarat and elsewhere in the country, Christians throughout India, and tens of thousands of Assamese, Bodos, Dalits (“Untouchables,” the dark-skinned aboriginal people of India), Manipuris, Tamils, and others. This is the true face of Indian democracy.

I am enclosing the Council of Khalistan’s press release on the book. The time has come for freedom for all the peoples and nations of South Asia, such as Khalistan, Kashmir, and Nagalim, to see real self-determination and freedom. This will protect the rights of all minorities, making sure that there are no more Chithisinghporas and allowing all people in that troubled region to live
in peace, freedom, prosperity, and dignity.

Sincerely,

Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh
President
Council of Khalistan