Dera Sucha Sauda -Sikh conflict in India

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From deccan Chronicle, 19 May 2007

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Chandigarh, May 18: <b>Radical Sikhs once closely associated with the “Khalistan” movement instigated and led the attacks against the five deras of the Sacha Sauda sect on Thursday evening. Pushed to the very fringe of Punjabi society, the Khalistanis resurfaced in considerable strength during the panthic meet convened by the Akal Takht at Talwandi Sabo on Thursday.

Taking Jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti and his fellow clerics completely by surprise, the radicals who represent once-outlawed outfits like the Dal Khalsa, Babbar Khalsa, Sikh Students’ Federation and Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s own seminary, Damdami Taksal, intelligence sources said, “dubbed the Akal Takht’s edict calling for a social and political boycott of the Dera and its followers as too soft... This was part of a pre-planned strategy.”</b>

Seconds after Jathedar Vedanti delivered his edict,<b> Damdami Taksal chief Harnam Singh Dhumma, alias Harnam Singh Bhindranwale, hijacked the panthic stage and declared that “Sikhs would deal with the heretics (Sacha Sauda followers) in their own way.” Minutes later, supported by  SSF activist Daljeet Singh Bittu and other former Khalistanis, he exhorted a 20,000-strong mob of frenzied devotees to follow him in avenging the insult done to their Guru.

For more than eight hours, Dhumma and the mob laid siege to the Sacha Sauda Dera at Salabatpura intent in razing it to the ground, unmindful of the fact that thousands of Sacha Sauda followers — men, women and children — had taken refuge inside.</b> It was only because of the massive police presence and the fact that the Sikh mob considerably thinned out during the siege that Salabatpura and its inhabitants survived Thursday night.

The radicals, however, met with more of their kind of success at Maur Mandi, Khanna, Sunam and some other Sacha Sauda establishments, which were thoroughly vandalised even though one Sikh paid with his life at Sunam. On Friday, at Kamalhit Singh’s funeral in Sunam, the Khalistanis happily proclaimed him “the first shaheed (martyr) of the new holy war against the heretics of Sacha Sauda.”<b> The announcements were met with lusty “Khalistan Zindabad” slogans.</b>
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I think the INC by its incompetence is giving the Khalistanis new legitimacy.

Also what is it that drives the frenzy to utterly destroy those who disagree with them?
granted DSS did was incorrect but what gives the others the right to go on a rampage and destroy the DSS. Aren't the middle ages over?