If the woven layers of this position and alignment to Khalistan are still too vague for our people to weave out, it should be noted that Bhai Jaswant Singh Ji founded and edited a monthly magazine called ‘Liberation Khalistan’ to advocate for the body he set up in the UK; the Khalistan Liberation Organisation.

We met the wife of Bhai Jaswant Singh Khalra, Bibi Paramjit Kaur and asked her many questions, Bibi Paramjit Kaur answered every question and thanks to her we can now share the information about Bhai Sahib, a fearless Sikh human activist, with the Sikh nation. The following are excerpts from the English version of the last international speech given by Jaswant Singh Khalra: We cannot escape the reality that India abducted, tortured and assassinated Bhai Jaswant Singh Ji in 1995 . These conditions should not be understood in the past tense, but ongoing, as Jagtar Singh ‘Jaggi’ and other political prisoners are confined in prison, Deep Sidhu’s death evoked naare of "ਇਹ ਸਾਡੀ ਮਜਬੂਰੀ ਏ, ਖਾਲਿਸਤਾਨ ਜ਼ਰੂਰੀ ਏ" and a yet another video of a young Sikh man being brutalised as a mob stood by goes viral. The newly rumoured movie will undoubtedly water down and distract from the ongoing realities and struggle. The ignited momentum amongst Sikhs in Punjab and the diaspora raises questions about the film’s intentions and inherent limitations in providing substance yet taking up space as it distorts and manufactures narratives. Following Operation Blue Star after which Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards, the Punjab Police was empowered to detain anyone whom they suspected as a militant, which led to the 1984 Sikh Massacre. Although the extremism of the riots distressed Khalra from the beginning, it was the abduction and killing of his close friend Piara Singh, the director of the cooperative bank where Khalra worked, which led Khalra to initiate a detailed investigation of the killings. Khalra went to the Durgiana Mandir cremation ground in Amritsar to gather the remains of his friend who had been illegally cremated. There, he discovered that his friend was not the only one who was cremated illegally. He discovered a major error while examining the register of the cremation ground, which featured names of victims of extrajudicial executions along with their father’s names and villages whose bodies were labelled as “unidentified.” The Indian government, the state government of Punjab, and Punjab police have all denied the extent of systematic “disappearances,” extrajudicial executions, and torture that occurred in Punjab during the counterinsurgency, at most admitting to a few errant abuses. Some officials privately justified the violations as necessary to combat the insurgency.

Rumours rustled the wheat fields. [Jaswant’s former colleague] Piara Singh’s family had heard about the Durgiana Mandir cremation ground and thought he may have been taken there. “Jaswant Singh, with his usual composure, made his way out there,” says Paramjit. “He asked the attendant if one Piara Singh’s body had been brought.” a b "Activist Khalra custodial death: SC upholds life in jail for Punjab cops". The Times of India. 5 November 2011 . Retrieved 15 November 2015. Unidentified” pyres burnt aplenty; the first registers Jaswant viewed listed over 300 cremations from just the Durgiana Mandir cremation ground in 1992. “Jaswant Singh proceeded with great care. With him was Jaspal Singh Dhillon, the chairman of the Akali Dal, Human Rights Wing. They engaged the crematoria attendants in banter, getting them the usual chaa-paani, and as they were busy eating, the team photocopied all the records of those supposedly missing.” The rumouring wind carried Khalra and Dhillon to other crematoria in their district, where they obtained similar records. By January, they had readied a list of illegal cremations from three crematoria and knew they must publicise it soon. Part of the difficulty were the men in uniform who kept appearing, asking Paramjit to change her testimony. Then there were the aspersions against Paramjit’s testimony, including the filing of a 1998 police case against her, by the earlier whistleblowing police officer Kuldip Singh, who charged that Paramjit and other Khalra supporters had coerced his statement against the accused [police officers]. Later, Kuldip Singh would testify before the Court about how the accused police officers had made him register this false case after detaining him, visiting his in-laws, offering inducements (including weapons), and threatening him and his wife. The Court would dismiss the case against Paramjit.

The position of Shaheed Bhai Jaswant Singh towards the struggle for Khalistan can be seen woven into his most famous speech . He talks about Shaheedi as the greatest gift that the Guru bestows upon a Sikh and names the structures of the Indian state as being mobilised against our existence. Punjab government institutions have equated human rights activists with terrorists and consistently used the insurgency to justify their actions. In the Punjab mass cremations case discussed below, the response of the Punjab police and government of Punjab has been to portray demands for a full accounting of abuses as negating the contributions of police in fighting insurgency. 40 Submissions by the state of Punjab have stressed the number of police killed in the insurgency. 41 In a 2002 application before the National Human Rights Commission, the state of Punjab denied the abuses but also wrote: Our greatest weakness lies in the fact that we are trying to domesticate the centre of Truth that is Sikhi within the dominant politics of falsehoods. Come let us attach ourselves to politics bound by Dharam. Abandoning the politics of subjugation and domination, come let us attach ourselves to Truth, and commit to the fight for true freedom - Khalistan.”Answer: From 1981 to 1985, we stayed at Khalra and in 1985 when I got a job at Guru Nanak University, we came to Amritsar.

Answer: Straight after operation blue star, he ignored all curfews and became active. For 10-15 days he was always in and out of the house, he was always attending meetings. For this reason he also spent a night in a police station and he was also once shot from a helicopter but that did not stop anything.Due to the nature of Shaheed Bhai Jaswant Singh’s life and death, and the reality of India, the Indian film industry is only capable of recreating, mutilating, and co-opting a story about Khalistan and the Sikh struggle against India, in an attempt to infiltrate and divert ongoing discourse and rising Sikh consciousness. In May 2006, Ensaaf partnered with Human Rights Watch (HRW), REDRESS, and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice to issue a call to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the investigation and prosecution of former police chief KPS Gill for his role in Khalra's torture and murder. In addition, Ensaaf assisted Paramjit Kaur, Khalra's widow, in drafting the international law arguments on superior responsibility in a petition that called on the High Court to investigate and prosecute Gill for his role in the crimes committed against Khalra. The petition was filed on September 6, 2006. Answer: My wait ended a year and half after his disappearance, when Kuldip Singh a special police officer gave his witness account in the newspapers. Before this Kuldip Singh had met me himself and told me that he wanted to talk about Khalra Sahib, but I didn't believe him as the police d also been sending men to give me false information on him. Then when the article of Kuldip Singh was printed in the newspapers, I read that article in a library. After the printing of this article we had started holding shaheedi barsi in memory of him.