Posts Tagged ‘sikh’

Sikh Student Abused in Texas

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Racism has “swam” literally from Australia to United States of America. A young Sikh student working part-time as a pizza delivery boy has been reportedly physically assaulted a group of unscrupulous US citizens when he came to deliver a pizza to their house, the Skh Coalition, a community advocacy group said. The attackers neither paid him for the pizza nor were decently behaving with him. They have hurled racial abuses at him. Although the real identity of the student or the attackers or the place of the incident has been withheld, it happened somewhere in Texas.

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The Great Punjab Show-Down

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
courtesy tribuneindia

courtesy tribuneindia

Radical Sikh organisation Dal Khalsa and allainces such as  Khalsa Action Committee (KAC), Damdami Taksal, Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak committee (DSGPC) and Shiromani Panthic Council today called off a one-day strike against the 1984 anti- Sikh riots demanding justice denied for the last 25 years. “We want the deaf government in the center to listen to our demands,” Dal Khalsa leader Kanwarpal Singh said.

Several trains at the Amritsar Railway station have been detained as a show of mass agitation. The Amritsar-New Delhi Shatabdi Express, Sachkhand Express, Dadar Express, Superfast Express and other trains were stopped by the activists.

Shops , petrol pumps, some banks and major schools in various cities were shut down. Police stopped youth activists roaming around the city with kirpans (swords)

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