The Tribune dated 17th April 2024
The Hindu Indian state cannot become a member of the United Nation Security Council until it implements UN protocols, treaties, covenants and conventions on Human Rights, some of them being:
1. 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
2. 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.
3. 1954 Convention relating to Status of Stateless Persons.
4. 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.
5. 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
6. 1966 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
7. 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. It is because there are still 30,000 Sikh Stateless refugees in Kashmir since 1947.
8. 1972 Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile System.
9. 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. If this Convention had been followed, neither the Darbar Sahib, the Golden Temple would not have been reduced to rubble nor the Babri Masjid in 1992.
10. 1984 Convention against Torture and other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
11. 1984 Safeguard and guaranteeing protection of the Rights of those facing the death penalty.
12. 1995 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
13. 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
14. 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of anti-Personnel Mines and their Destruction (the Ottawa Convention on the abolition of landmines).
15. 2001 Rome Statute, by virtue of which the International Criminal Court has been set up at The Hague.
16. 2010 The Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibits all use, stockpiling, production and transfer of Cluster Munitions.
Further more, the policy of the BJP-RSS Union Government of Premier Narendra Modi of assassinating Sikhs abroad and within the country in which Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Sukhdool Singh assassinated in Canada, Avtar Singh Khanda in UK, Parmjit Singh Panjwar and Lakhbir Singh Rode in Pakistan, Deep Singh Sidhu in Haryana, Subhdeep Singh Sidhu Moosewala killed in Panjab.
Along with these cruel killings the large scale massacres of Adivasis (Tribal) on 03rd April 2024 when eleven included a woman were assassinated and on 16th April 2024, 29 were massacred in cold blood, all these factors must be taken into account before any thinking can be done on receiving a Security Council and what about THIS (Theocratic Hindu Indian State) implementing the 1948 United Nation Security Council Resolution for a plebiscite on Kashmir?
Simranjit Singh Mānn,
President,
Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar),
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