Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana
See UPDATED post from TLH here at The Wonder of the Shaheed.
On March 31st, Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana is set to be executed in Punjab for his involvement in the assassination of former chief minister of Punjab, Beant Singh. It will be the first execution in Punjab’s history in 24 years.
Chief minister Beant Singh was involved with carrying out brutal and mass killings of Sikhs in Punjab. He is widely held responsible by many Sikhs for ordering the kidnap, torture and death of many young Sikh men. A report by Amnesty International can be found here.
Balwant Singh Rajoana has confessed his involvement in the assassination. He’s accepted the sentence without protest, identifying a lack of faith in the Indian judiciary system and accusing Indian courts for applying dual standards of law. The Indian judiciary system is one that has continued to protect the culprits of the mass killings of Sikhs. In his will Balwant Singh announced his wish to donate his eyes and other body parts after his death, in particular, he expressed his desire that his eyes should be transplanted to Hazoori Ragi of Darbar Sahib, visually impaired Bhai Lakhwinder Singh. An English translation of his living will can be found here.
Sikh groups in the diaspora are organizing demonstrations to bring awareness to Balwant Singh’s case. You can find out more about these events on this facebook page. In addition, a petition has been created to stop the execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana.
Let us not forget those men and women who have stood up against injustice.
42 Responses to “Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana”
Bahut Sahi Gal hai veerji,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,_Indian Judicial System is corrupt……….._Bhai sahib layi sanu ik common jagah te ikathe hona chahida hai,,_To raise our voice against this corrupt system
u r correct……..sick Indian Judicial System ………
ANNA HAZARE hakk layi khada hove tan gandhiwadi… j SARDAR BALWANT SINGH RAJOANA khada hoya ta attankwadi ho gya……kitho da insaaaf??/
Lets insult everything that Balwant Singh Rajoana is standing up for for by asking for mercy and filing petitions for his release. Politicians/Activists/FB activists are all crying hoarse wanting to attach their public sympathies with the issue while refusing to acknowledge the higher truth that Bhai Rajoana is proclaiming….there is no difference between living and dying while fighting against injustice while immersed in the love of Guru. We are projecting our own weak conscience on him and disrespecting everything that he is trying to say to our long-dead souls. On being asked about Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar case, he had said …’meri vaari nazaara vakhra hi hovega..’ and he is showing us why…
Perhaps an introspection into our personal Sikh spirit would do us some good.
But think what the results would be if we our UNITED efforts resulted in Bhai Sahib not getting Fansi.
Then we know that we can organize and accomplish anything in the future. We will be unstoppable. I do wonder how he would spend the rest of his life though….incarcerated for life……is that really best?
Also do you know with the Rajoana case, Indian govt is breaking its 24 year long no death penalty streak? If we can stop them this time, we can stop innocents like Bhullar from getting Fansi….
Nimarta are you familiar with the Indian (in)justice system?
Also, that point is Rajoana's point – he has no faith in the 'legitimacy' of the system, hence he courts Shaheedi to be the ultimate witness.
About the missing justice in the Indian Justice system: Yes, but will the injustices continue if we bring it to attention of the world? Should we sit silent and let them continue? Now, everyone is united so now's the chance. Even if we fail to stop Bhai Rajoana's fansi, we can try for Bhullar and others.
@jugraj – agreed. I will write a follow-up post soon. Just have had a busy weekend. Thanks for bringing the point up.
When did 2 wrongs started to make 1 right. Has he not confessed his involvement in the assassination? Ki farak haiga Balwant Singh te ISI terrorist wich… dono hi religion de naa te lokan nu katal karde hain… jo kuch KPS gill/Beant Singh ne kita bilkul galat si, par jo kuch ho rahya si 80s te 90s wich, o keda theek si…
i hope your reasoning would also cause you to oppose the death penalty?
@prdind – "When did 2 wrongs started to make 1 right."
A STATE is held to higher standards than an individual. Comparing actions of the two is a mistake.
Concentration of power in the hands of a few is fertile grounds for abuse of power. This is why political dynasties/patronage networks are so dangerous. If you find yourself within the networks and kowtowing – then you are safe. If you are outside- say good bye to your life. Balwant Singh Rajoana is a freedom fighter. What he has done is a matter of freedom, self respect and dignity. Hope the Jathedars do not ask for clemency from the Govt. of India on his behalf. That would be repudiation of what he is standing for.
The patronage networks are more concerned about survival, and fear a backlash. Under pressure, they will buckle and ask for mercy. Most likely this hanging will not take place and they will find a way out. Although remember genocide victims got denied justice and none in power did anything for them…..mentioned by Rajoana Finally, The Govt. cant kill someone twice…..he is already dead, and standing with the victims.
@Prdind: Can you translate this c$%p into English so we can understand what you are saying and perhaps put out a response to it.
@Meena another attempt at c$%p
When did 2 wrongs started to make 1 right. Has he not confessed his involvement in the assassination? What is the difference between Balwant Singh and ISI terrorist… Both are killing people in the name of religion… Whatever KPS Gill/Beant Singh did was certainly not right, but whatever was happening in 80s and 90s, basically political manipulation of religion by both SAD and Congress was not right either.
Yes two wrongs don't make a right, so Indian government who appointed a sadistic killer as the chief minister shouldn't further insult, hurt, and do injustice to the Sikhs by killing Balwant singh Rajoana.
Beant singh was not only using religion but also his political power to kill innocent Sikhs, Read the Amnesty International's report of his evil actions. If Beant Singh had all political power behind him, who was to stop him? How was he to be stopped? Well, Rajoana did what he could at that time to stop Beanta.
Yes, he confessed but it is still injustice, and we are protesting the injustice. The killers of Rajiv Gandhi were sentenced to Fansi so long ago, yet they're sentence isn't being carried out, but his is fast-tracked…other killers of 84 go free…he doesn't…soo many injustices…now we have a platform..let's take a stand..and fight one injustice at a time. If we stop his Fansi…we can save Bhullar and so many others.
Two wrongs make a right, when the 2nd wrong stops the first wrong: When the death of one evil person saves the lives of many innocent people.
And how do you suppose Bhindrawale and his ilk should have been stopped? I agree a lot of inncoents were also killed in those times. But did someone count how many innocents were killed by terrorists in Punjab.
Wasn't it the Akali Dal (later SAD) and Bhindrawale that started using Anandpur Resolution as political tool to exploit the religious sentiments of folks? What amuses me most is that folks are still living under the influence of that exploitative trance?
prdind, I admire your courage to pose the difficult question to the 'brainwashed' Sikhs who have no empathy for the terrorism victims in Punjab and elsewhere. Let any of these supremacist apologists give us the figures from the two years preceding Rajoana outrage which claimed 17 innocents' lives too. fact is that killings in Punjab (which peaked around 1992-93) had stopped and the state was on its way to peace.
According to a Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IMRBC) and UNHCR report:
"A number of sources that discuss the period after the 1992-93 counter-insurgency, in which numerous Sikh militants surrendered, fled, or were captured or killed, indicate that a measure of peace returned to Punjab, bringing a resurgence in social, political and economic life (Wallace 1994, 2; India Abroad 28 Apr. 1995a, 13; ibid. 28 Apr. 1995b, 15; India Today 31 Mar. 1994a, 61; IPS 14 Feb. 1994; see also DIRB Jan. 1994, 12-13, and DIRB 21 Aug. 1995)"
"In Punjab, instances of terrorist violence virtually disappeared in 1994, and the number of Sikh militants killed diminished considerably from 1993…. During 1994, 76 alleged Punjabi militants were reportedly killed in armed encounters, including only 4 in the last 6 months of the year, compared with more than 583 such killings in 1993 (1995, 1220)"
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,IRBC,COUNT…
"According to Patterns of Global Terrorism 1994, "Total civilian deaths in Punjab have declined more than 95 percent since more than 3,300 civilians died in 1991. The drop results largely from Indian Army, paramilitary, and police successes against extremist groups" (US Department of State Apr. 1995). "
Bhai balwant singh ji Rajoana is living up to the standard of a true gursikh…which we are not capable of, certainly not me. I hope that his shaheedi will not go in vain, and that the sikhs will realize that the Indian Government treats the sikhs as second class citizens.
We can blame the politicians all we want, but why has the indian Judiciary system not been able to punish the responsible people for the 1984 dehli/ 2002 gujrat massacre?
The whole political,social and judiciary system is so corrupt that people which have cases pending against them are made ministers and DGP. This is nothing new, and this why people like bhai Rajoana did what needed to do.
When a sikh undertakes something to stop the attrocities, he is put behind bars for 17 years and eventually hanged till death!! We sikhs must realize that we must not only save him from the gallows, but get him free aswell. He knows, that his shaheedi will be more valuable (wake-up call) for the sikh panth, than being life sentenced in jail. I hope the people of Punjab realise this!!!!
For the vast majority of the people of india, bhai Balwant Singh is a terrorist but for us sikhs, he is a freedom fighter.
I have great respect for this jinda shaheed
i am totally in favour of bhai balwant singh rajoana this fansi should be stopped
If anyone's interested, Amandeep and Randep's March 20, 2012 Interview with Punjabi Radio USA regarding the Global Movement for Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana can be heard here: http://db.tt/DBb8U735 (you may need to turn the volume all the way up from 4:30 to 5:50).
Have we done a cross match to see if the eyes will be taken by the recipient that Bhai Balwant Singh has willed his eyes to???
mery sari sikh kaom nu benti hai 31smar2012 har singh singhni kesri dastaran ban ke apni
ekta da sabut dye a baki abarsar te kisai granthi ton ass na rakho oh te app ja ke pani
dyan baltian bhar ke de aye han ke lai put eh de nal naha ke shety faci char jawo
lahant hai eho jehi jathedari de
Just an FYI, the technology to transplant eyes does not yet exist. Part of the eye called the cornea can be transplanted to a damaged or diseased eye, but if a person is blind to begin with, or has been blind for a very long time it won't make any difference at all. The neural capacity to actually use the eye will not have been developed in the brain. Even someone who can see and looses an eye can not get a transplant. We do not yet have the ability to reconnect the optic nerve. Stem cell research may lead to that some day.
What if Hangman refuses to hang anyone? As per jail manual Jail Supdt. will have to perform the duty of the hangman. Jail Supdt. has already refused to perform this duty and will prefer to resign. Punjab does not have any hangman, they will have to ask Delhi Govt. for the hangman. Why do someone perform this job? For Money? This is the profession no one would like to choose. if any hangman has enough money to lead a comfortable life he will never do this job. Politicians spent millions and millions to fight elections with no surety to win and even to see that others loose. They will spend any amount to get votes of elected representitives to save their Govt. Will someone see that any hangman has enough resources to shun this profession? Another thing to watch is to see what action / course will Path Rattan Fakhar A Quam receipt(s) will take. Don't you think whosoever is Panth Rattan should come forward and lead as it is now issue of our QUAM.
@prdind,I think you have not full knowledge of Sant Bhindranwala,You only know what the govt say,If you read his history and also of sikh religion,then you are ready to sacrifice your life for sikh religion and also you become the hardcore fellow of Sant ji.I do't know either u r hindu ,nirankari or sacha sauda.Sikh taan badla lain lai jamde hi rehan ge.
Save Bhai Balwant Singh ji. He shouldn't be hanged. Our government is of no use if they cannot help us. We voted for a useless government. How disappointing. Many Hindus killed Sikhs but they didn't get hanged…how come it is always us Sikhs who gets punished for something that we did to protect our people.
This has got to be the first time since 1984 that pretty much every Sikh on earth is united in anger. Even 'Sikhs' that used to espouse the official Indian line have joined the unified Sikh camp. India, being the pathetic creature it is, has not only shot itself in the foot, it has invited the world to its very public flogging.
This piece from the uk version of huffington post, and the comments it has generated, sums up well the way that the world has finally woken up to just what strange kind of democracy India actually is. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jasdev-singh-rai/…
Mr. B. Singh’s life should b spared as he has done good deed to all men kind by what ever he has done to assist assassination of a Monster. Vissious killers of innocent people must be crusified and be killed so their spree of killing can be stopped. And people who take upon themselves such hard tasks of removing such animals from the society should be recognized as hero’s not what is happening here.
Paul Sethi
This is wrong, Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana, an innocent soul is getting hanged. The Indian Judicial System is corrupt . I am will always stand with my sikh brothers and sisters. I belive the Judicial System is taking it too far , not only are they hanging someone who has done the right thing but it is also provoking the Sikhs to do wrong. The teaching in Sikhism is to respect every religion and live in peace. We need to protect our religion from being destroyed and we will fight for justice forever……….
The indian Judiciary system not been able to punish the responsible people for the 1984 Delhi yet, then why the judiciary is so much in hurry to hang Bhai Rajoana. The whole political,social and judiciary system is corrupt . This is nothing new, and this why people like Bhai Rajoana did what needed to do. Still the ANNA's campaing against corruption is going anyhow. our political leaders have deteriorated our whole political,social and judicial system. The Judiciary is so much interested to hang Bhai Rajoana whereas 21 cases related to anti-Sikh riots registered in police stations in south-west Delhi had been sent as "untraced means that there is not enough evidence to proceed for trial. The principal suspects in the 1984 case—Congress leaders the late HKL Bhagat, Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler and Kamal Nath—have escaped the long arm of the law. The leaders go scot-free while people like Bhai Rajaona suffers. The legal system is so differential to this leaders. Yet we are waiting for justice for 1984 riots., Those who end of being punished are minor pawns in the whole game.
Despite numerous credible eye-witness accounts that identified many of those involved in the violence, including police and politicians, in the months following the killings, the government sought no prosecutions or indictments of any persons, including officials, accused in any case of murder, rape or arson.
Bhai Rajaona is against this system, this judiciary, these leaders, this corrupt politicians. He gave us the path, now we should proceed on it for justice not only to him but also to the victims of 1984 riots and is required to an attempt to mollify the charged current and to raise our voice against this corrupt system and justice to the humanity.
SK, I share your frustration (and anger) over 1984 killings of Sikhs in Delhi which were the darkest blot on our democracy. The killings of the innocent Sikh civilians dealt the most grievous blow to the syncretic faith as was being practiced by the Sikh/Hindu community till then.
Having said that, I would like to share few facts with you.
1. 442 'butchers' were convicted for Delhi 1984; 49 given life imprisonment.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi…
Cases against Bhagat, Tytler (ironically, son of a Sikh mother) & Co collapsed in the courts because of the lack of evidence. If I am not wrong, no Sikh lawyer has ever accused the judiciary of being partial to the accused. Sajjan Kumar has been charge-sheeted by CBI and I agree even if he is convicted, it would be justice denied as 3 decades have lapsed after those soul-shattering incidents.
I would liked to be proved wrong here but the cases against Kamal nath and Amitabh Bachchan (grandson of a 'blue-blooded, Gurdwara Prabandhak' Bedi patriarch) are totally frivolous. for over 25 years the witnesses (Dukhiya and Jagdish Kaur) did not care to name Amitabh as an accused, i find it really hard to believe.
As far as Rajoana is concerned, please keep it in your mind, he killed 17 totally innocents along with democratically-elected Chief Minister. Rajoana has till date not shown ANY remorse for the killing of the civilians …for devastating 17 families for his revenge. If someone mourns Delhi victims and not those 17 killed by Rajoana (forget tens of thousands butchered by Khali terrorists in Punjab and elsewhere), that person is a hypocrite in my opinion.
Moreover, you need to know the reasons behind judiciary asking Rajoana to be hanged. Do some basic research and ask yourself how come the capital punishment of the mastermind behind the massacre Jagtar Hawara, and his accomplice have been commuted but not of Rajoana.
There is a process by which capital punishment is commuted in India and it includes mercy petition as filed by ALL of the accused in the case (also by Kishori Lal in 1984 Delhi killings). Rajoana's conviction is based on his OWN VOLUNTARY CONFESSION and he has NOT filed any mercy petition. How do you blame judiciary when the CP of the others in the same case has been commuted and while Rajoana is bent upon 'martyrdom'? I also find it baffling why Rajoana did not push the button on the fateful day and why he has generated such a huge campaign portraying himself as a victim. and why did he run away from the bomb blast site.
I would call it weak-kneed reaction (or the guilt of 1984 Delhi killings) of the Union and Badal governments which have led to the unprecedented deferment of of Rajoana fansi. If I am not wrong,
in the conclusion, while you rightly mourn about 'Sikh' victims by state and other agencies, spare a thought for the victims of Bhindran and Khali inspired terrorism too, Ironically, majority of the terrorism victims (inc Rajoana outrage) were also Sikhs.
Even though i am against terrorism of any hue (inc the so called saffron terrorists – Hindu extremists), i have no disrespect for the likes of Sukha Jinda, Beant Singh, Satwant Singh, Kuki and others who did not kill any civilian.
sorry yaar duniya bekaar bina sardar
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