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Washington D.C. - The lingering sad memory of the 10, 000 innocent Sikh men, women and children who were murdered in Delhi, during the horrific state-sponsored November 1984 bloody pogrom, is the raison d‘etre for the above Open Letter appeal. It is addressed to His Excellency Mr. Zhou Wenzhong, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States. The appeal appeared today (April 9) in the Op-Ed page of the Washington Times newspaper. Memory is the diary that we Sikhs carry about with us. “Human blood is heavy; the men that have shed it cannot run away,” African proverb.
After reading the above Open Letter appeal, readers will recall that our column of March 26, 2008, headlined, “Tibetan ‘hawks’ might ‘ambush’ the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch relay when it passes through Delhi on April 17,” had exposed the machinations of the Indian government. How it organized a two-day Conference for an Independent Tibet’ from June 23-24, 2007, in New Delhi, India, (more than a year before the Beijing August 2008 Olympiad) at the Gandhi Peace Foundation, which planted the seeds of the worldwide anti-China protests being witnessed on our TV sets today. Following the ‘Independent Tibet’ conference in Delhi last year (in 2007) the Indian government increased its overt annual stipend to the Dalai Lama from twenty million (two crore) rupees to seventy million (7 crore) rupees. At about the same time, scuttlebutt in Delhi, according to our reliable sources, has it, that covert financial help to the Dalai Lama, channeled through Indian Intelligence agencies, has ballooned to seven hundred million (70 crore) rupees during the current year – the year of the Olympic games in Beijing.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs also took another step, this year, of upgrading its relationship with the Tibetan government-in-exile, by institutionalizing an annual engagement between the Indian Foreign Secretary and the Dalai Lama. India’s External Affairs ministry also quietly upgraded its relationship with the Dalai Lama-led Tibetan government-in-exile based in Dharamsala (Mcleodganj) in Himachel Pradesh, India. This year a senior Director-level (Ambassador-level) officer of the Ministry of External Affairs, one Thanglura Darlong, was posted to head that ministry’s liaison office (embassy?) in Dharamsala (Mcleodganj) instead of an officer of under-secretary level as in the past. According to our source in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, India’s diplomatic missions, in various countries, were instructed late last year to facilitate, and covertly support, any Tibetan protests against China that might take place.
The question that comes to mind is that, what tactics will the Dalai Lama & Co., in cahoots with Indian Intelligence agencies, use to mount a ‘spectacular’ protest in front of TV cameras on the arrival of the Olympic Torch in Delhi on April 17? In this age of the Tamil suicide bomber, and history of Vietnamese monks, in the 1970’s, committing suicide on roads by lighting a march after pouring gasoline on themselves could induce a ‘brain-washed’ Tibetan monk in India to act crazy likewise, on April 17, in Delhi!
It is obvious from the ‘body language’ of the ‘Babus’ (officials), in the Indian Foreign Office and Indian Embassies abroad, that the script of their double-faced China policy, was written by a former Foreign Secretary, Kanwal Sibal, whose presciently article appeared in India’s prestigious English language News Magazine OUTLOOK on April 7, 2008. The article is headlined, “Tibet Is Our Best Card To Settle Borders With China. Unless shaken, Beijing will have no incentive to deal with the issue.”
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