AR-News: US - How Khem Singh starved to death

[Orville A Knudsen]

How Khem Singh starved to death
http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/mar/22rajeev.htm

QUOTE:

A few years ago, a young Indian man named Navroze Mody was beaten to death
by eleven white racists shouting 'Dot-head!' as he was walking to catch a
train in Hoboken, New Jersey. His crime? He was Indian.

A couple of years back, an Indian father of three, Charanjit Singh Aujla,
was shot to death by plainclothes sheriff's deputies in Jackson,
Mississippi. They claimed that he, a person with no prior criminal record,
had pulled a gun on them as he thought they were trying to rob the liquor
store that he managed. His crime? He was Indian.

None of the people in the civil rights cottage industry in India, such as
the ever vigilant Human Rights Watch, or Amnesty International, or Teesta
Setalvad, or Shabana Azmi, or SAHMAT or Communalism Combat raised a little
finger in the defense of Navroze Mody or Charanjit Singh Aujla.

...

This man, who did not speak English well, was brutalized in a jail in
Fresno, California, and the jailers watched him starve to death, with no
compunctions. They gave him no medical attention or even food for two
months while he starved.

So 72-year-old Khem Singh died in prison of slow starvation partly because
his religious beliefs were violated: a strict vegetarian, he was given
meat to eat. Which meant he ate nothing at all.

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