Vinod Prakash ji,

Namaskar,
I will send you the check for $1,000 soon. Good to hear from you. Thanks for you help in bringing truth out about such a tragic story…………Bal Ram

At 07:20 PM 9/5/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Dear Dr. Singh,

I am happy to note your pledge. As you may know, IDRF is your organization and will be glad to accept your generous contribution, as well as of others for Mr. Francois Gautier as conveyer of FACT. You may wish to know that we already sent $1,100 and we have raised by now $8,000 or so.

Since all contributions are tax-exempt under US laws, I think you may prefer to use IDRF as an intermediator. Consistent with our normal practice, we inform the ultimate beneficiary organization about the major donors, and expect them to receive directly a thank you letter.

Regards,
Vinod Prakashn 301-984-2127 www.IDRF.org
Donation payable to: IDRF
Memo: Forum Against Continuing Terrorism FACT (in India)
5821 Mossrock Drive,
North Bethesda,
MD 20852-3238, USA.

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Learning from History

Francois Gautier

The massacre of six million Jews by Hitler and the persecution they suffered all over the world in the last 15 centuries has been meticulously recorded after 1945 and has been enshrined not only in history books, but also in Holocaust museums, the most famous of these being the one in Washington DC. It has not been done with a spirit of vengeance: Look at Israel and Germany today, they are in the best of terms; yet, facts are facts and contemporary Germany has come to terms with its terrible actions during Second World War.

Hindus too have suffered a terrible Holocaust, probably without parallel in human history. Take the Hindu Kush, for instance; probably, one of the biggest genocides in the history of Hindus. There has practically been no serious research on the subject or mention in history books. The Hindu Kush is a mountain system nearly 1,000 miles long and 200 miles wide, running north-east to south-west and dividing the Amu Darya valley and the Indus valley. The Hindu Kush has over two dozen summits of more than 23,000 feet and historically its passes, particularly the Khyber, have been of great military significance, for they provide access to the northern plains of India. Most foreign invaders have used the Khyber Pass: Alexander the Great in 327 BC, Mahmud of Ghazni, in 1001 AD; Timur Lane in 1398 AD; and, Nadir Shah in 1739 AD.

This is why the Forum Against Continuing Terrorism (FACT), which sponsored the recent exhibition in Delhi on the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits - an exhibition which opened also in Bangalore on September 1, and will be in Poland on September 10, and then in Berlin on the 15th - would like to start a project aiming at having a Holocaust Museum in New Delhi. It will record not only the genocide of Hindus at the hands of Muslim invaders, but also the terrible persecution by the Portugese (hardly mentioned, too, in Indian History books), or of the British (nobody knows that 25 millions Indians died in famine between 1815 and 1920, a genocide in the true sense of the term, as the Britsih broke the agricultural backbone of India for raw materials like Cotton, jute, etc. FACT needs the support of all Indians for this museum to come into existence, so that Indian children know their history and what their forefathers had to endure.

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FACT, which stand for Forum Against Continuing Terrorism has three trustees: Francois Gautier, KG Suresh of PTI and another journalist, Deepak Bajaj. Its registered office is for the moment at 41 Jorbagh, New Delhi 110003 and this where the cheques in the name of FACT can be sent, or else they can be directly credited to the FACT account: ICICI Bank Limited, New Delhi, Karol Bagh Branch, 2877, First Floor, Hardhyan Singh Road, Karolbagh, New Delhi 110 005, a/c N° 629105037071. For those donating abroad, they can also be donated via an organization which has a charity tax exemption (ours will take some time to be obtained), such as IDRF USA, or Kashmir Overseas Organization. FACT is in the process of obtaining tax exemption.

François Gautier

41 Jorbagh, New Delhi 110003, India / Auromodel, Auroville, 605101, T.N. India tel 91 4132622255 / 91 9811118828

website: http://www.francoisgautier.com

From the latest issue of Hindu Voice :
http://pub6.ezboard.com/fhinduunityhinduismhottopics.showMessage?topicID=15577.topic

Note from Francois Gauiter

I had organised an exhibition on terrorism unleashed in Kashmir from 18th - 23rd July 2003 at Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.

If you take the Kashmir Pandit community, not only it did not bother to contribute anything, but most of them did not even bother to come to the exhibition, which after all was done for them (we had put hoardings in major traffic places in Delhi at a cost of Rs. 1.6 lakhs), although I personally went to give 350 invitations to the Panun Kashmir office (invitations which were never distributed and on the last day of the exhibition the Delhi Panun Kashmir President turned-up saying that he had just heard about the exhibition from a friend !) One explanation we got is that KP leaders "were afraid that this exhibition would undermine their leadership") What kind of attitude is that ?

The truth is that Hindus, in spite of great qualities, whether KP or others in India are very passive, disunited, non-courageous, non-commited - and this is what gave a free hand to so many invaders all along the centuries - and what still gives a free hand today to the enemies of Hinduism, whether it is the English-speaking Press, the Marxists, the Christians or the Muslims, when they are a small minority compared to the overwhelming numbers, brains and finances of the Hindus.

It is easy for them to come to me and say, "you are doing such a great job for us", but what are they doing themselves. I am not even a Hindu, not even a KP, not even an Indian. This is the state of things. It was so 100 years ago and it is still so today, although things are changing, slowly ....

Let's keep up our effort anyway, it's all for a great cause. I am now taking my exhibition to Bangalore and then to Poland.

Francois Gautier
e-mail : fgautier@satyam.net.in