According to sources, the terrorist organization Sikhs for Justice is attempting to poison the minds of the Sikh community by falsely claiming that the Chattisinghpura massacre of 2000 was orchestrated by the Indian Army. This malicious propaganda has been strongly condemned by Sikhs in India. Sardar Amanjeet Singh Bakhshi, National President of Sikh Brotherhood International, stated that certain individuals and even some media houses abroad, who support Sikhs for Justice and Pakistan’s ISI, have intensified their propaganda after the Pahalgam attack (April 22, 2025). They are trying to draw parallels between this and the Chattisinghpura massacre carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists on March 20, 2000, falsely portraying it as a “false flag operation” by the Indian Army.
In reality, on March 20, 2000, 36 Sikhs were brutally murdered by terrorists in the village of Chattisinghpura in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir. The attackers were dressed in army uniforms. According to eyewitnesses, 15–20 terrorists split into two groups and approached two nearby gurdwaras—Shaaukeen Mohalla Gurdwara and Singh Sabha Sumandari Hall Gurdwara—located just 150 meters apart. The terrorists gathered the Sikhs outside the gurdwaras and fired indiscriminately at close range, killing 36 people. This attack was carried out by Pakistan-sponsored terrorist groups just before U.S. President Bill Clinton’s visit to India, with the intent of drawing international attention to the Kashmir issue. It was one among several pre-planned terrorist incidents aimed at giving a communal color to the insurgency in Kashmir.
Similarly, David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, was interrogated by India’s NIA in the United States from June 3 to June 9, 2010, in the presence of his counsel and FBI officials. During the interrogation, Headley revealed that while undergoing militant training with Lashkar-e-Taiba in August 2002, he met a Kashmiri terrorist named Muzzammil Butt, a key LeT operative responsible for terror operations in India. Headley was told by Muzzammil that, under orders from his ISI handler and LeT chief Hafiz Saeed, he had carried out an attack and killed civilians in a village in South Kashmir before the U.S. President’s visit. Headley later learned that Muzzammil was also behind the planning and execution of the September 24, 2002 attack on the Akshardham Temple in Gujarat.
Sardar Amanjeet Singh Bakhshi emphasized that the fight is against terrorism, and it is crucial to maintain Hindu-Sikh harmony in the country. He urged people—especially Sikhs living abroad—not to fall for such misleading propaganda and instead give a strong and unified response to those spreading such divisive conspiracies.
