Thirty Four years ago my friends who are part of majority in India were silent when in June 1984 thousands of Sikhs including women and kids (as young as 3 months old) were massacred and raped by Indian Army in their holiest of Shrines Sri Darbar Sahib Amritsar also known as Golden Temple, they were silent on November 1984 Genocide of Sikhs, they remained silent on the reign of terror that followed in Panjab for 10 years from 1984 which claimed lives of thousands of young boys and many girls were raped (all in the name of Nation building), they choose to stay silent on 2002 Gujarat massacre.

Rather they decided to reward the perpetrators of  1984 Genocide by voting them to power with sweeping majority in December 1984 elections (404 seats in a 533-seat parliament ). They are silent now on what’s happening in Kashmir and North eastern states like Nagaland and with Dalits. It is the repetition of what Panjab had already endured under terrorism of Indian security forces from 1984 onwards. Panjab is suffering now also but a different kind of genocide in which Drug trafficking that has been encouraged in Panjab and being robbed of its waters and is on the brink of turning into a baron land. And all this in the name of Nation building. I would remind them here that there silence is making them partners in those heinous crimes that have and are being committed because their collective conscience have approved of those crimes. Those crimes are happening with the people whom majority have alienated or I should say have downgraded them from the status of being humans. Otherwise how would they choose to remain silent and reward the culprits with the highest office in the country over and over again (1984, 2002, 2014)

If sacrificing lives of innocent people for Nation building can be justified then why is Hitler considered as a worst ruler in modern times ? He did everything in the name of building a German Nation, and for those people who think that capitalistic economy is the only measure of success and that’s why Indira Gandhi, Rajeev Gandhi or the present BJP government (now even Indian economy is not doing good but that’s blind following of people ) is good then Germany was economically very strong before World War II so that all the allied forces had to come together to defeat it. So why Hitler is bad he must be doing something very good because Germany was doing great (Not to forget Germans choose to remain silent during Jews holocaust and when Jews were facing oppression in Germany).

Closer to home if we look at Indian history Aurangzeb killed every non Muslim and converted them to Islam forcefully. Then why is he considered evil he should be regarded as a great ruler because he did all this to make a one nation and under his reign Mughals were doing great economically.

Those people who think that they are secular or I should say pseudo secular should come out of their cocoons that they are hiding into and think beyond their personal interests, and stop justifying these crimes against humanity in the name of Nation building because People make the Nation and its not the other way around.

And lastly as Martin Luther King Jr has rightfully said.

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”

So think people how you want to be remembered by future generations……

– Harpreet Singh.