End-of-Year Sikh Youth Camp Held at El Sobrante Gurdwara

January 1, 2006

Source: Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund/Contra Costa Times

http://www.saldef.org/default.aspx?zone=article.view&a=1303&z=4

On January 1, 2006 the Contra Costa Times reported, "An end-of-year camp for children at the Sikh temple of El Sobrante featured music, culture and Punjabi-language classes -- as well as lectures on genocide and other crimes against humanity. A doctor talked to the children about the Nazi-orchestrated genocide of Jews and Roma people and more recent genocides in Bosnia, Rwanda and Sudan as well as former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's massacre of Kurds in 1988. The children also heard from a human-rights lawyer, watched a PowerPoint presentation on the history of turbans from antiquity to today, and played a quiz game on Sikh topics patterned on television's 'Jeopardy!' Other topics covered during the weeklong camp included bullying in school and the 1984 assault on the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, by Indian forces. The camp is themed on the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which obligates member nations to guarantee freedom, dignity and equality to all the world's people."

See also: Sikhism, Youth