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Javanmard said "Bhai Ranjit Singh actually visited Jarnail Singh Bhindranvala at the Golden Temple Complex before the attack of the Indian army. Bhindranvala refused to see him and this is a fact. You can twist it anyway you want: Ranjit Singh didn't receive any gold be it by Bhindranvala or his men." just a thought bhai ranjit singh was arrested long before the indian regime stormed into panjab??? plus when bhai ranjit singh was handover to the indian govt by the akalis was it not Sant Ji saying give me Ranjit Singh i will show u how i weigh him in gold??? this is all recorded on tapes and videos, u can hear it from the horses mouth!!! plus no one ever mentions when Sant ji says killing inncoent ppl is wrong or when his jatha helped hindus or the poor out just a shame we look at one point. Plus Sant ji always had respect for ppl who stood by the quam in the hour of need he had loads of respect for Baba Sohan Singh Jathadar Baba Bidi Chand Jatha of Nihangs and other groups even though he did not agree with some aspects of their sikhi. He did not enforce his views on them when they went to places like Patna Sahib they dnt cuss or change the maryada of the local Sikhs. That’s a fact. The notion of a Taliban state is pathic Sant Ji nor the freedom fighters would have wanted a state like that but just wanted one where they could live lifes of Gursikhs without their faith and ppl being dishonoured. just a benti to ppl who attack Sant ji lets not attack our follow brother he NEVER killed any innocent everyone off us trys to live our lives according to Guru ji we got one guru one panth lets show ekta and move our lives forward helping and serving the world thats what Sant ji and the Shaheeds wanted. any ways ppl who want to have a hip hop sikhi life can, the rest off us will look at the shaheeds Bhai Jinda and Bhai Sukha and the likes Baba Deep Singh Ji and Baba Gurbakash Singh Ji Sant Jarnail Singh for inspiration akaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal dego tegho fateh

a point to make bhai ranjit singh had got arrestted before Sant Baba Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale Jathadar Damdami Taksaal had given him the gold, its a fact and bhai ranjit singh knows that Sant ji wud have given him everything. Sant Ji acted on his words he was a true KHALSA he stood by his words and defended Sri Harimandir Sahib like a True Lion that article by sarbjit singh hits the nail on the head AKAAL Bhindranwala sant saphi jin suthi quam jaagi

vaheguru singh wicked seva u doing putting up all those pics and info on 1984, most of us where not able to see this stuff. would be good to have a website with all the newspaper articles from 1984. may Maharaaj keep u close to him take care

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vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh yes veeji this is the image of the the Kar Sewa done by the Sikh Sangat after the Hukamnaama by the Sarbat Khalsa 26th Jan 1986 to rebuild Sri Akaal Takhat Sahib. theres a video of the Kar Sewa. there is loads off images regarding the Sewa done hope it helps vaheguru

Today the 11th November 1987 Bhai Sahib Manjit Singh and Bhai Sahib Rajinder Singh brought a pakhandi ‘guru’ darshan dassi to book and pumped their bullets into him. This person had openly challenged Guru ji and made himself into the reincarnation of Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaaj, during the troubled times of the 80’s this cult was in the fore front off supporting the attacks on Sikhs by the Indian gov. He openly used to oppose shaheedi divas and in his cult HQ used to abuse Guru ji innocent families and bibia. Bhai Sahib Manjit Singh and Bhai Sahib Rajinder Singh 2 Gursikhs of the highest calibre took on the task handed to them by Guru ji and followed this cult for over 6 months watching what he did and then on the 11th Nov 1987 challenged this pervert in his darbar and put out the misery off thousands of innocent families. These 2 Gursikhs are soo chardi kala they have not changed one bit. They could easily say sorry and come out off prison. They are serving 20 and 30 years each. The Panths jewels who gave their youthfulness for Guru ji may be in prison but they are freer than we are. Please every one do Parth and Ardas for the Chardi Kala of these Gursikhs and the other jewels of the panth and their families. vaheguru AKAAAL

vaheguru wow the land off our great gurus and shaheeds http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050927/punjab1.htm#5 Admn order on kara, kirpan draws SGPC’s ire School to amend directive, says Principal Tribune News Service Ropar, September 26 Sikh students have been banned to wear kirpan and kara in Shiwalik Public School run by the district administration in Ropar city. The school Principal, in her written orders, a copy of which is also available with The Tribune, said the students were not permitted to wear any such objects that may be sharp, including heavy karas and kirpans. The orders were sent to the parents of each student in the school. The order said these things were strictly prohibited in the school. If any student was found wearing them, these would be impounded and the bearer would be fined Rs 500 besides disciplinary action. Besides the kirpan and kara, other things which were banned, included mobile phone, gold and silver jewellery, cash, CDs and cassettes and also in driving to school on two-wheelers. The SGPC has decided to launch an agitation against the decision of the school authorities. An SGPC member, Mr Gurinder Singh Gogi, said if the administration would not withdraw the circular issued by the school authorities, then the SGPC would launch a statewide agitation against it, he added. It was unfortunate the students of Punjab had to face such kind of discriminations. The decision of the school authorities met with widespread resentment among parents of the Sikh students. On conditions of the anonymity they said that kara and kirpan were compulsory for a baptised Sikh. It was unfortunate the school run by the administration was hurting sentiments of Sikhs. They also decided to take up matter with the higher authorities. When contacted the Principal of school, Ms Gurpreet Mathur, said that order was passed due to the safety of the students and not to hurt sentiments of Sikh community. As even in small dispute, the students could hurt each other with a kara and kirpan. She said tomorrow she would take necessary amendments in the order so that baptised Sikh students could carry things as per their religious beliefs.

vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh today marks Ghalughara week, when the indian armed forces attacked our beloved Sri Harimandir Sahib and countless other Gurdwaras massacring 10,000s of Sikhs and destroying countless historical artefacts can the sangat across the world do Ardas for all those Shaheeds and make a pledge to carry forward their dream. May Guru ji bless those great Gursikhs that couldnot tolerate the destruction and mass killings of their loved ones and left their homes to walk in the hell fires of panjab. today marks the Shaheedi day of Bhai Mengha Singh Babbar agained Shaheedi protecting Sri Harimandir Sahib 1st June 1984 up to another 10 sikhs to gave their Shaheedi GurBar Akaal sukdev The Ghalughara – 1984 On June 1st, 1984, the government of India shrouded a terrifying veil of secrecy over the ENTIRE northern Indian state of Punjab! Foreign news reporters were expelled from the state, and communications with the rest of humanity severed by the government. This mortifying sequence of events transpired in a country claiming to be "the world's largest democracy," and set the stage for what was to follow. For months, the Government had claimed that a small group of "terrorists"-- whose "official" number swelled from 40 before the attack to over 450 in the succeeding months-- was operating from and hiding out in the complex. This apparently transpired despite the pronounced presence of the police, the military, and government spies in and around the open, easily-accessible Golden Temple complex, as well as the tapping of all of its phones. June 3rd was an important religious holiday for the Sikhs, and thousands had gathered in the city of Amritsar to worship in the Golden Temple. As many had come from great distances, numerous pilgrims spent the night at the Temple complex. Knowing this, the Indian Army began heavy artillery fire into the complex on the night of the 3rd. This continued until it moved in during the early hours of the 5th, thus trapping thousands of innocent Sikh pilgrims: men, women, and children. Simultaneously, 38 other Gurdwaras (Sikh Temples) across the state were attacked by the army. What ensued was a deliberate, cold-blooded massacre by a state of its own citizens. Not only were an enormous number of innocent pilgrims murdered, but the majority were mercilessly exterminated AFTER the complex had been militarily secured. The Times of London reported, "Several. . . Sikh militants killed. . . were shot at point-blank range by troops who first tied their hands behind their backs, a doctor and police official said. A Police Superintendent also reported that 'at least 13 Sikhs were tied and shot by submachine-gun-toting soldiers'. . . . The sources say that the militants' turbans had been removed and their hands tied with Yit|. Each of them had been killed with a single shot fired at their forehead." Another police official said "a Ytruck| load of ELDERLY Sikhs who surrendered on the first day of the military operation were brought to the main city police station and tortured there by the army. The soldiers removed their turbans, pulled their hair over their eyes and tied the long hair round their necks. Then they threw sand in their faces," he said. "The old men shrieked, but I helplessly watched all this from my office window." In addition to the slaughter and torture of helpless pilgrims, no provision for the wounded Sikhs-- who were Indian citizens-- was made by the army. The number of prisoners taken was negligible, as the Indian army obviously thought it better to eliminate the thousands of people seized, rather than risk allowing them to reveal the true nature of the actions committed in the name of the Indian people. No effort was made to identify them. No relatives were informed. By failing to turn over the bodies, and cremating them immediately, the Indian government made sure that no autopsies could be performed, and no precise body count made. Large numbers of women and children disappeared during the attack, and are presumed to have been killed by the Indian Army. Despite such atrocities, no commission was ever appointed by the government to delve into this dark episode. It was closed to the light of truth, being a "military matter." The official government figure of civilians and "terrorists" killed was 493. However, it is obvious that a government does not keep track when it slaughters its own people. The number of dead estimated by the independent group Citizens for Democracy was 8,000. Other human rights activists have asserted that the number murdered by the State is at least double that figure. We will never know how many men, women, children, and elderly died at the hands of their own government. After securing the premises of the Golden temple, the soldiers then proceeded to destroy Sikh religious and historical artifacts kept in a museum in the Golden temple premises, including centuries old religious manuscripts and articles belonging to the Sikh prophets. This further provides evidence that the attack was not the simple anti-terrorist action the Indian Government feigns it was, but rather a calculated attempt to strike out specifically at the Sikh community. With all news controlled by the government, conditions were ideal for the planting of fake evidence and the erasure of unpleasant evidence-- a situation vehemently protested by the Press Council of India. In the prelude to the attack, numerous reports by the state-controlled media had filtered into India, in a calculated ploy to consolidate public opinion behind the secret plans soon to be unveiled by the Indian government. The media's venture to generate anti-Sikh sentiment in the nation, with an avalanche of prevarications prior to Operation Bluestar, worked well. This can be gauged by the celebrations of many Hindus after the army's entry into the Golden Temple complex. After the siege, the misinformation from the state-controlled press continued to proliferate. Claims were made, and later retracted or proven lies, of finding numerous materials sacrilegious to Sikhs within the complex (drugs and alcohol), finding jewelry and other valuables, of the Golden Temple itself not being fired upon (it had over 350 bullet marks), not to mention grotesque falsehoods about the number of dead. Taking into account evidence that has surfaced since the event, it appears undeniable that the timing of the attack was calculated to cause maximum damage, casualties, and suffering to the Sikhs. Particularly as the evidence of exceeding government duplicity has been discovered, people of conscience around the world have viewed this not as an attempt to root out a few "terrorists," but as an assault upon Sikh religion itself. This latter belief became horrifyingly concretized through Operation Woodrose, the "mop-up" procedure which followed Bluestar. In this military operation, which human rights activists have denounced as "Genocide in practice," army personnel fanned out across Punjab in an effort to crush the spirit of the Sikh community by humiliating, torturing, and murdering them in front of their families and friends. The political ramifications of Operation Bluestar become readily visible when one realizes that it was planned by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi long before it occurred. It was afterwards learned that army units had been practicing on a model of the Golden Temple complex months before the attack. The assault on the Sikhs' center of religious and political authority was designed to garner votes from the Hindu majority by "disciplining" a tiny religious minority of the voting populace, one that was then leading a powerful, popular, nonviolent protest movement against the political indiscretions of Indira Gandhi. To erase the national embarrassment Indira Gandhi suffered from the Sikhs' airing of their legitimate political grievances, and in searchi of political gain, countless thousands of Sikhs were murdered. And no one was held accountable.

[align=center:c4586c6117]21st Anniversary of the Attack on the Golden Temple Sikh Holocaust Remembrance Day for Justice & Freedom 12th June 2005[/align:c4586c6117] Over 10,000 Sikhs from throughout the United Kingdom will march through London on 12 June 2005 The biggest remembrance rally for over 15 years 1000 black balloons will be released to commemorate the thousands dead and those who continue to languish in India’s prisons after 20 years without trial Many people marching on Sunday have lost family and friends in the continuing human rights violations against civil rights activists. On Sunday 12th June Sikhs from throughout the UK will converge on Hyde Park London for a rally to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1984 genocide of Sikhs in India. On 3rd June 1984 a 25,000 strong contingent of the Indian armed forces attacked the Golden Temple complex with heavy artillery and tanks. The attack was not only illegal and unconstitutional, but was aimed to coincide with services to mark the anniversary of the first martyr of the Sikh faith, when in the scorching heat of the Punjabi summer thousands were thronging to pay their respects inside the precincts of the Golden Temple. With a resonance to that first sacrifice in the 17th century, the newly appointed Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh in 1986 describes the attack during his tenure at Sidney Sussex College Camridge. He points to ‘the civil-rights movement which was initiated in 1982’ and ‘the brutal way in which it was suppressed’ and ‘the aftermath of the destruction of the Sikhs’ holiest shrine, the Akal Takhat, and the barbaric violence against Sikhs outside Punjab.’[1] It is estimated the army invasion of the Golden Temple left 15,000 pilgrims dead and 30,000 people homeless. The attack was simultaneously carried out on 40 other historical shrines throughout Punjab to suppress the civil rights movement that had developed as a result of decades of discriminatory laws and actions by the Indian state against the Punjab region and the Sikhs. Reports spoke of eye-witness accounts to the massacre and the killing of women and children in cold-blood and of Sikh prisoners being tied with their own turbans and then shot in the head. Medical staff were threatened, and some killed, if they gave food or water to pilgrims injured during the army onslaught. Later in the winter of 1984, after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, mobs lead by Congress leaders committed murder, looting, arson and rape across India for over a week. The looting and murder centered on Delhi but spanned most of India left over 5000 Sikhs dead and over 60,000 homeless in Delhi alone: thousands more were left ‘missing’ and unaccounted for. The fear and trauma for the people of Punjab hasn’t ended. Thousands are still languishing in prisons. Soldiers who left their barracks in protest of the attack on the Golden Temple are still held in jail. Families who lost relatives haven’t received any justice or compensation, whilst thousands of bounties have been paid to police and army officers for controlling a self-propelled cycle of killing and kidnap. The thousands of Sikh lives and billions of rupees worth of Sikh property that were lost in Delhi in the Congress organised riots of November 1984 haven’t yet been accounted for, nor justice done or compensation given and property returned to the Sikh community. The only people to return to their status have been the supposed protectors of the people in the form of MP’s. Those same Congress leaders, Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar who have been accused of masterminding and leading the riots in Delhi in 1984 only last month were re-elected MPs and given Ministerial appointments brining further anguish and heartache to the Sikh community throughout the world. Whilst no apology or independent inquiry has been forthcoming from India, the Sikh community in the United Kingdom will be making their displeasure clear on Sunday 6 June in London Kiran Kaur from the West Midlands will be at the demonstration. ‘Two of my cousins disappeared in the summer of 1984. They had just finished school and were out playing on their bicycles. We know that the reason they were taken was because they wore orange turbans and so were seen as associated with the struggle. Their parents haven’t heard of or seen them since.’ “My brother was a qualified engineer and we haven’t seen him since 1986. He had only just returned home after completing his degree.’ Said Shindo who will not be joining the rally because she like thousands of others is afraid of repercussions against her family in Punjab. (Real name not given to protect anonymity). Charan Singh from the North of England will be unable to travel to the march due to ill health but his family will be joining the protest. ‘My nephews had never been in any trouble and were both good and worked hard on their farm. The police killed them and then said they found guns and ammunition. We weren’t alone most families in our village have lost someone. If there were so many militants with this many guns why is it that there was no civil war in Punjab with all these guns that the police keep saying they find whenever they kill someone after they have tortured and held them?’ Strong images and vibrant messages will be the order of the day. Rally and march for Remembrance, Justice and Freedom Assembly at Hyde Park 12 noon Rally 1 pm March sets off from Hyde Park 2 pm March ends at Temple Place 4 pm

vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh our family has long relationship with the Rara Sahib Taksaal, thats how i know them. Baba ji is a True gem in the panth very panthic. akaal

vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh baba ji is ok now, he had high blood pressure a fews weeks back. Baba ji was in delhi doing samgans. hopefully Maharaaj di kirpa nihal he will be ok

vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh from what i know a chalisa is where a gursikh will go away into a room and he wud have a set maryada ie they wud do ishaan before 1am in the first sitting they wud do 51,000 mool mantar or some other parth ie Sri Jap ji Sahib they will not get up until it is done this cud take about 4 hours this wud be in addition to their daily routine ie nitnam which wud be another 3-4 hours. They wud not talk to anyone cook their own meals and basically do parth. This cud is done in a morning sitting and then an evening sitting basically over 8hours a day is spent doing the chalisa. The maryada to this it varies with different jathas but what I know off the singhs in Taksaal they do this a lot. Guess more enlightened gursikhs will tell u more.

vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh Jathadar Amrik Singh is the gursikh who is the Jathadar of the Panj Pyaria who do Amrit Sanchar for the Taksaal. Time is coming close now, the bachan of Baba ji is coming true and we will see who sticks with Baba jis bachan take care long road to freedom sukdev

vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh the gurmukh is Sant Baba Karak Singh ji who indra tried to give the Kar Sewa to in june 84 but he told her where to go, bhai Harbhajan Singh yogi is the other person in the pic

vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh i will get it scanned in and email it u, give me a few days becus another singh has booklet take care

vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh yea this is not bhai shiv charan singh, but we have a booklet done by the 3ho which shows a jatha of 3ho's with Sant Gyani Kartar Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale Jathadar Damdami Taksaal which must have been in the yearly 70s. The usa sikhs had meet both the Taksaali singh's and the singh's of the AKJ. those where the days when the panth stood Tall and Strong Vaheguru

vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh the taksaal is doing what it has all ways done sikhi da parchar. most off the taksaali singhs are concentrating on parchar in the villages they are sticking to Baba ji's bachan regarding Sant ji who ever stands by baba ji bachan will succeed the others will fall even if Bhai Harnam Singh goes against Baba Ji's bachan he too will fall like ram singh has. the taksaal has joined hands with the Akali Dal (mann) SKD in organising a bandi chor†Khalsa march to seek the release of Prof Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar and some other Sikh detainees.

yea right looks very accurate what a joke enuf of the games

Summon K.P.S. Gill, says Khalra’s wife Tribune News Service http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050222/punjab1.htm#4 Chandigarh, February 21 The wife of missing human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra today asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to seek the summoning of Punjab’s former Director-General of Police K.P.S. Gill for his alleged involvement in “encouraging custodial deaths and fake encounters†during the period of militancy. “The CBI should make up for the lapse it had earlier committed by omitting Gill’s name from the chargesheet and should move the court for summoning him in the Khalra case,†Ms Paramjit Kaur asserted. She was accompanied by several human rights activists. She alleged that Mr Gill had in fact masterminded innocent Khalra’s killing. Khalra had disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1995. A witness in his disappearance case had told the court that he had seen Mr Gill going into a room in which Khalra was being kept at Manawala in Tarn Taran. Addressing a press conference this morning, his wife said “between January 23 and till date at least three crucial eyewitnesses have shed their fear and told the court how Jaswant Singh was abducted, detained in a police station, done to death and the body thrown into a canal without last rites ....†She added: “Burial with honour is accorded even to an enemy soldier, but was not granted to Jaswant Singh Khalra in his own country though he was exposing the cremation of about 25,000 bodies by policemen in the cremation grounds of Amritsar and Tarn Taran.â€

[marq=up:05a77ad143]We will spill our last drop of blood and to the last man we will fight for Khalistan.' The immortal words of Shaheed Baba Gurbachan Singh Manochahal Jathadar Sri Akal Takhat Sahib General of Bhindranwala Tiger Force of Khalistan (B.T.F.K)[/marq:05a77ad143] Baba ji’s 12th Shaheedi anniversary falling on February 28 The history of the Sikh nation is filled with sacrifices and whenever the rulers of India or any invader has tried to finish the Sikhs by oppression the Khalsa Panth has retaliated by bringing the oppressor to justice . In recent times the Indian authorities have been trying to eliminate not only the Sikh people but also those belonging to other minorities in India by persecution and genocide. Sant Jarnail Singh Khalsa Bhindranwale awakened a sleeping nation and invited the Sikhs to raise their voices against the tyrant rulers. In this struggle to defend the Sikh nation thousands of brave Sikhs have received martyrdom and one of these is Baba Gurbachan Singh Manochahal who was one of the greatest leaders of the present struggle. In the district of Amritsar, Tehsil Taran Taran there is a village known as Manochahal. In this village Mata Gurmej Kaur the wife of Atma Singh gave birth to Gurbachan Singh Manochahal in 1954. After having passed his metric exams his father wanted him to work on the family land but Baba Manochahal had no interest in this. So he joined the army as a surveyor. While in the army he felt an awakening for Sikhi and his consciousness led him towards the essence of Guru Ji's teachings. After four years service in the army he decided to leave and went to live at his maternal grandfather's house to look after their land because they were in a foreign country. It was here that Baba Manochahal became a Granthi (priest) at Baba Dhanna Gurudwara. Whilst he was staying here Sant Kartar Singh Khalsa Bhindranwale came to give Amrit Sanchar and to do parchar. Baba Manochahal was so influenced by Sant Ji's he utterances that he became a firm believer in Sant's message. After this initial meeting Baba Manochahal stayed at the headquarters of Damdami Taksal at Mehta on many occasions. In 1978 a group calling themselves Sant Nirankaris organised a convention in Amritsar on April l3th, the Birthday of the Khalsa. The so-called Nirankaris backed by the Congress Party were under the leadership of one Gurbachan `Singh' who had claimed himself to be a prophet and incarnation of Guru Nanak Dev ji. At the gathering the Nirankaris mocked the Sikh faith and insulted the Sri Guru- Granth Sahib Ji. On hearing this Sant Bhindranwale sent a group of devote sikhs under the leadership,of Bhai Fauja Singh to hold a peaceful protest march to the place where the socalled Nirankaris were gathering. However the Nirankaris and the police fired upon the Sikhs resulting in the martyrdom of 13 Sikhs and 80 were further injured including Baba Manochahal who was shot in the arm. In 1982 The Sikh Freedom Fighters shot Lala Jagat Narain the editor of the Hind Samachar newspaper which was writing derogatory; remarks directed against the Sikh religion. In connection with this case a warrant was issued for Sant Bhindranwale and in order to arrest him raids were made in Chando Kalan (Haryana) and Bombay. Baba Manochahal was with Sant Bhindranwale during this time and they managed to reach Mehta Chowk. At Mehta Chowk Sant Bhindranwala peacefully courted arrest. After the arrest the police without any reason shot 22 Sikhs dead and wounded many more. Unable to falsely find Sant Bhindranwale guilty the Brahmin Government was forced to release him. On being released Sant Bhindranwale went straight to the Darbar Sahib and started the `Dharam Yudh' morcha. .. In June 1984 the Indian rulers attacked the Darbar Sahib resulting in thousands of innocent men, women and children being butchered. After this incident and the atrocities generally being committed against the Sikhs Baba Manochahal decided to fight in the armed struggle. His first action was in his own village where he shot and killed a soldier after which he absconded . The police in order to force Baba Manochahal to give himself up took from his maternal grandparents home their jeep, motorcycle, tractor and then burnt their crops. They also started to harass his family, which included violence . At Manochahal village the Punjab police and the CRP surrounded Baba Manochahal and an encounter ensued in which Inspector Bhupinder Singh and many other police officers were killed. Baba Manochahal broke through the police cordon and escaped. By 1986 Baba Ji had 9 encounters with the army and police and always broke through their cordons and escaped. On the 26 July 1986 a Sarbat Khalsa was called at the Akal Takhat which the Punj ab police tried to prevent by blocking and barricading all the roads leading to Darbar Sahib. A five member Panthic Committee was established to over look the affairs of the Sikh Nation and Baba Manochahal was chosen as one of the five. On the 29th April 1986 the Panthic Committee declared that the Sikhs would struggle for the establishment of an independent Sikh state `Khalistan' . The Akali Government led by Barnala sent the army into Sri Harmandir Sahib resulting in hundreds of arrests including that of the acting Jathadar of Sri Akal Takhat Sahib Bhai Gurdev Singh Kaonke. The Panthic Committee elected Baba Manochahal to replace Bhai Koanke as Jathadar. As Jathadar Baba Manochahal stood firm on the demand for Khalistan and kept the high traditions and morals of Akali Phula Singh Ji. In order to quicken the struggle for Khalistan Baba Manochahal founded the Bhindranwala Tiger force of Khalistan which in a very short time spread its operations throughout Punjab, Delhi and other surrounding states. Baba Manochahal had many encounters with the Indian police and after causing havoc he managed to escape. For instance in village Vrana he along with his companions Dr Resham Singh and Bhai Buta Singh had an encounter with the police in which they inflicted terror and death. The police commander in charge was Mohammad Izhar Alam and he had his men surround the area. The encounter lasted for 7 hours and Bhai Buta Singh received martyrdom but Baba Manochahal along with Dr Resham Singh managed to escape. The Indian Government once again attacked the Darbar Sahib in operation Black Thunder in which many of Baba Manochahal's companions received martyrdom including Lt General Bhai Surjit Singh Penta and Lt General Bhai Karj Singh Thanda . Baba Manochahal's greatest encounter with the police was in village Rotal which lasted 56 hours. In this encounter the police, CRP and the army were involved and in the battle there was a heavy loss on the enemy. The BTF lost Lieutenant General Lakhwinder Singh and four other freedom fighters who became Shaheeds fighting for the Sikh Nation. Once again Baba Manochahal escaped from the clutches of the police. Being unsuccessful in capturing Baba Manochahal the police turned their attention to his family. His father Atma Singh and his brother Tarlochan Singh who had deserted the army after operation Blue Star were arrested. After spending six years in jail they were released. Baba Manochahal's wife and son along with his other brothers Nirvair Singh who was working as a farmer and Ninder Singh who was working for the electricity board were arrested. The police later killed Baba Manochahal's father Atma Singh and brother Nirvair Singh in a fake encounter. The rest of the family if they have not been killed by the police are still being harassed and tortured today. Due to Baba Manochahal's military training and his own intelligence he survived in the thick of the battle against the brahmin regime for 15 years. He stayed true to the Khalsa spirit and showed what can be achieved in a short space of time by following the teachings of the Gurus. At the beginning of 1993 a near companion of Baba Manochahal by the name of Sukhwant Singh Warchiree was arrested by the police. Unable to bear the heavy police torture he told the police the whereabouts of Baba Manochahal's hideouts. But Baba Manochahal was able to change his hideouts before he could be found. In the village of Bagria the police raided the house of Piara Singh. When the police were about to arrest his son Resham Singh, his mother asked the police why are you taking my son? Baba Manochahal is sitting down in the bunker. Before the police could take any action Baba Manochahal exploded a bomb and rained a spray of bullets on the police. This caused a stampede amongst the police and Baba Manochahal managed to escape. When the police broke the bunker and went inside they found a feast of ' arms and' a small wireless set which Baba Manochahal had been using to track the movement of the police. The police surrounded all the villages nearby and carried out house to house searches. On the 28 February 1993 outside Rotal village the police raided the farmhouse of Ajit Singh where Baba Manochahal was staying. This was Baba Manochahal's final encounter and he knew the time had come for him to become one with the Almighty. He came out fighting like a lion and was shot by police entrenched behind a tubewell. Baba Manochahal's martyrdom was a great loss to the Sikh Nation and his martyrdom was revenged by the freedom fighters who killed five police officers near Barnala. Baba Manochahal's involvement in the Khalistan Movement inspires many a Sikh today to fight against oppression and injustice and will continue to do so. He has joined the endless list of Shaheeds, martyred in a righteous war in defence of his faith. [fade:05a77ad143][fade][marq=up:05a77ad143]We are born from the edge of the sword. grown and swelled with the sword. If we live, we live with self respect, if we die, we die with dignity.[/marq:05a77ad143][/fade:05a77ad143][/fade]Khalistan Zindabad. From the Khalistan Deeyan Goonzan April-May 1998

No Surrender:Shaheed Baba Gurbachan Singh Manochahal Part 1 Jathadar Sri Akaal Takhat Sahib the true story of a Great Gursikh http://www.tapoban.org/phorum/read.php?f=1...207&t=29207 GUR BAR AKAAL