Assassins For Hire

Writing by shinda on Sunday, 18 of May , 2008

Check out this story in todays Toronto Star - Brampton bridegroom murdered in Punjab.

Brampton bridegroom murdered in Punjab

May 18, 2008 04:30 AM


Special to the Star
MOGA, INDIA–Jasvir Singh Dhaliwal’s wedding was meant to be a splendid countryside affair.

The deep-red cards were lettered in gold, a sign of the family’s new-found wealth and status in Canada.

Dhaliwal, a 27-year-old Brampton resident, returned to his family’s native village in India’s western state of Punjab to tie the knot on Valentine’s Day.

He had broken off with his girlfriend of four years in Canada to wed a young Punjabi woman who lived near his family’s village home.

The wedding never took place.

On Feb. 13, as Dhaliwal left a pre-wedding party with five of his relatives, a car screeched to a halt in front of his vehicle. One of its occupants emerged and sprayed Dhaliwal and a male cousin with bullets, killing both.

Dhaliwal’s death was another example, Punjab police allege, of Indo-Canadians and other Indians living abroad hiring assassins back in India to settle scores – ranging from broken hearts to perceived stains on honour and property disputes.

Indian police have issued a warrant for the arrest of the victim’s former Brampton girlfriend, Amanpal Gill, charging her with conspiracy to murder.

They have also arrested the jilted girlfriend’s Punjab-based parents, charging them with conspiracy to murder, and have issued a warrant for the arrest of her brother, Gurusewak Singh of Brampton, on a charge of murder.

Police records show he entered India shortly before the shooting and left the country shortly after.

Gurusewak Singh and the victim worked together at one time in Brampton as drivers for a trucking company.

Attempts to reach Amanpal Gill in Brampton by the Star were unsuccessful.

Ashwini Kumar, a police constable with the Indian Reserve Battalion, has been charged with first-degree murder in the case.
CONTRACT KILLINGS, called supari, have long been standard fare in Mumbai’s underworld.

Increasingly, however, ordinary non-resident Indians are turning to hired assassins to settle their scores.

“India today is a very different place,” said Gurpreet Singh Bhuller, senior superintendent of police for rural Ludhiana.

“Doaba (in central Punjab) has a long history of supari killings that started because many people from that area settled overseas, in the U.K., in America or in Canada.

“Later, when people from other parts of Punjab started going overseas, supari killings spread to those areas as well.”

In June 2000, Jassi Kaur Sidhu, an Indo-Canadian, was found with her throat slit in Punjab when her family refused to accept her love affair and marriage to a rickshaw driver.

Last month, the Punjab and Haryana High Court sentenced four of those accused in the case to life imprisonment, including the victim’s maternal uncle in Punjab and a police officer.

The victim’s mother, Malkiat Kaur, and uncle, Surjit Singh Badesha, remain free in Canada. They have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, Indian police say, and warrants for their arrests have been issued.

The police say they have made an extradition request to Canada. Ottawa says it does not comment on individual cases for privacy reasons.

Attempts by the Star to reach Kaur and Badesha in Maple Ridge, B.C., were unsuccessful.

Hired killers are relatively easy to find in Punjab, where unemployment, access to weapons and a sudden growth in local wealth as a result of rising property value, have fostered an underground trade in murder.

“The basic fact is there is plenty of unemployment, and we see so many luxurious things on television and cinema, and a lot of young kids are desperate to acquire those things,” noted Bhuller.

Drug use, in particular crack cocaine, is also on the rise.

Police estimate that assassins are hired for prices that run the gamut from $5,000 to $150,000.

They estimate that there have been about two dozen contract killings here since 2005.

“This sort of thing is hardly new here,” according to a Ludhiana businessman and former Sikh militant who did not want to be identified.

“People have killed in the name of honour for centuries. It’s just that now it’s not done directly by family members.”
CRIMES COMMITTED in India on behalf of non-resident Indians continue to grow in number.

One reason for such killings is a belief that the long arm of the law won’t reach perpetrators when the crimes are committed in far-off villages oceans away from the contractors’ new homes.

Canada’s Department of Justice received about 150 extradition requests from around the world last year for various types of cases but won’t give a breakdown.

The department uses a three-step process in deciding the case of a citizen or permanent resident for whom it receives an extradition request.

“After the minister of justice has made a decision based on the evidence, there is still an appeal stage,” said Christian Girouard, the department’s manager of public and media relations.

But because extradition procedures between the two countries can be so painfully slow-moving, people with a score to settle are increasingly resorting to Punjab-based killers, Indian police say.

“A lot of (non-resident Indians) feel very secure that extradition is not possible because it’s such a bureaucratic and delayed process,” said Bhuller.

“Moreover, most such transactions take place through (money transfers) leaving no proof and making it difficult to get them.”
OUTSIDE THE VIKRAJ marriage palace, a kilometre from where Jasvir Singh Dhaliwal was shot and killed, his parents talked about how they had been looking forward to back-to-back wedding ceremonies for their son, and then his sister – before assassins’ bullets turned their joy to grief.

Harjinder Kaur Dhaliwal, 59, kept her head bowed, occasionally moving a hand to wipe away tears. Her husband, 54-year-old Nirmal Singh, also spoke in hushed tones.

“I still can’t believe this has happened,” he said. “Canadian police should help us out. Our son is gone, but if they don’t catch his killer, he could do it again.”

Apparently the Assassination industry in India is thriving and doing well. Looks like a lot of it has to do with folks not being able to get jobs, and people from around here having a bit to much loot and a few to many sprained egos. Then again maybe the whole industry is starting to grow in Canada also, with the attempted assassination of Kulvir Grewal two months back.

I guess this is just another one of those growing pains and a part of the whole ghetto-ization occurring in the GTA with the South Asian community and its pockets. Reminds me of lyrics spit by Pac though still,

A seven-deuce full of niggaz goes by
Thought I was trippin the second time they rolled, by
Recognized the plates, the faces looked familiar
Everybody swear they know the nigga that’s gonna, kill ya
Don’t murder me murder me, killa a nigga in his sleep
Let me die as I rest in peace, deep
Back to these niggaz in the seven-deuce
A mac-10 out the window bout to let it loose, what could I do?
Run for cover and return fire
DIE MOTHERf**kIN DIE, hope yo’ ass fry, don’t ask why

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Kids these Days

Writing by shinda on Monday, 14 of May , 2007

You would think that after everyone had the R.I.P Kaka name tags in all there cyber profiles, and after those highly hyped stop the violence meetings at the Gurdwara’s that it be at least a year before folks started rushing out trying to kill one another again, but seems like the tempers and ego’s just couldn’t wait.,

I guess what’s most annoying about all this is that it’s easy to see in hindsight how quickly this could have been anyone from my own generation or own circle of friends from highschool, considering the ego’s back then were just as big as the kids these days, but seems like these kids all got an extra chip on there shoulder for some reason. As if they really have something to prove to the elders and past generations that they’re just as rugged if not more then them. Maybe they’re tired of hearing about the glory day’s of the senior crews, the PM’s, CB4’s, Saraba’s, BBS’s, the Rexdale-Malton beefs of past, or whoever else you may have that came before them and done something so regrettably stupid but made it out alive, that the story later became suburban street folk-lore, setting a standard they feel they need to live up to.

In the end who knows what’s being put in the food of these kids to make them feel so ghetto fabulous, or what hannibal-istic ingredient is being added to their cheerios and fruit loops, infecting them with some next form of mad cow diesease.

And as parents go running looking for the answer, screaming to the giani’s and other youth leaders, blaming them for not being able to rescue there lost child, asking why couldn’t they have gone out of there way to highlight the symptoms and save their blood, one can only wonder what lessons the others may have learned, after all the lesson itself always remains embodied within the action.

Brampton brawl ends with teen slain

19-year-old stabbed in ‘mass chaos’ as youths fight outside party in subdivision. Neighbour puts her house up for sale

May 14, 2007 JIM WILKES STAFF REPORTER

A teen was stabbed to death as a beer-fuelled party spilled into a Brampton street and he challenged battling partygoers.

A handful of teens tried to administer first aid to Amrinder Singh Atwal, 19, as he lay bleeding on Culture Cres. Saturday night.

About two dozen others fled before police arrived.

Residents described the area, near Chinguacousy Rd. and Williams Parkway, as a quiet neighbourhood of young families where the loudest noise is usually youngsters playing basketball in the street.

But a quiet barbecue and party turned violent about 10:15 p.m. Saturday as dozens of teens emerged from a house and began beating each other with beer bottles.

Neighbour Rob Voth said he watched as two teens pinned another against a fence and threw punches as a third kicked him.

The teen was also stabbed, but is expected to recover.

Voth, 38, said he watched another teen, later identified as Atwal, stand in the street exhorting others to fight.

“You could see his hand was up with some kind of weapon in his hand, whatever it was, ready for battle, preparing himself, like, `bring it on,’” he said. “It all happened pretty fast.” Police said the brawl was triggered by a long-simmering dispute among some of the partygoers.

“It was something about, `You didn’t like me in Grade 10,’” said Voth.

“It’s not a good scene,” he said, gazing across a street criss-crossed with yellow police tape. “I’ve only been here two years and now I’m ready to go a little further north into the country, do some home-schooling with my kids and make sure they’re safe.”

His wife Samantha also said they may move from the neighbourhood constructed just six years ago.

“It was mass chaos,” she said. “There were people screaming. It was very scary. You don’t expect something like that to happen on your front lawn.”

She fought back tears as she spoke of the teen’s death.

“You wake up and it’s Mother’s Day and you realize that a mother is without her son,” she said.

Lisa Snelgrove, a 29-year-old mother of children age 12, 10 and 8, didn’t take much time to decide their future.

“I called my real estate agent to put my house up for sale as soon this tape comes down,” she said. She said she moved to Brampton from Rexdale “to give my kids a better life.”

But she doesn’t know where they’ll go next to escape violence. “It’s everywhere,” she said. “My daughter was in tears, crying her eyes out. They asked me if anybody died. I’m not going to lie to them,” she said. “You don’t want to have to explain that to any child.”

Snelgrove watched as teens tried to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation on Atwal. “But by that time it looked like it was too late,” she said.

Peel police said yesterday they hadn’t found the knife used to kill Atwal.

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Punjabi Mafia

Writing by shinda on Thursday, 26 of April , 2007

If you’ve been following the news then you’ve undoubtedly heard about the Airport Taxi/Limo driver protest that happened in downtown city hall the other day. The matter at hand is city hall wanting to pass a bill banning limo drivers from picking up fares from the city, similar to how outside cab’s can’t grab fares from the airport.

Now all’s good minus the fact that the media’s jumped onto the whole matter, labeling the airport limo industry as being nothing more then an extension of the Punjabi Mafia, run from the heart of Malton. Which of course is surprising considering most airport/limo drivers are from Brampton, but lets not knit pick at the facts too much, after all they are just facts after all.

There’s no denying that the Airport limo drivers are perceived as a strong lobby group in terms of political sway within the community. After all, if they weren’t then politicians wouldn’t go abouts seeking their blessings and making a sales pitch to them when elections came around. All the same, one needs to consider how much power any lobby group really has considering the various groups that exist within the community. After all if any group is to given Soprano like status you would have at least thought the various Gurdwara committee’s (Looking at places like new Rexdale in particular) would have been the first to garnish such an accolade.

Anyway’s I figured I’d share the media coverage on the topic considering that a good number of those involved in the whole fiasco are Singhs that we’ve all seen and or worked with at various times, and also in light to add to the whole media bias that seems to be rising up against the community, calling to arms that it’s time that the community take its PR more seriosly, and take caution when dealing with sensative issues that will undoubtedly receive as much media coverage as they do.

Below are some excerpts from various media regarding the topic, the first is a blog entry by Mike Stafford, a radio personality in GTA who did a segment on his show, followed by a video clip from CTV news on the matter.

I’m just about fed-up with the taxi and limousine industry in this city. If you listen to any advocate, and I don’t, 95% of the drivers are PhD’s whose credentials are waved away by employers because of racism. My guess is 95% of them (at least the downtown taxi drivers) are unemployable misanthropes who couldn’t pass an official driving test if they bribed the instructor.

I watch these clowns every day and I lived in the city ten years without a car so I know the inside as well. The cars are a mess, the drivers spend the entire ride chatting on a cell phone and some of them are clearly “on” something.

But it’s the airport limo mafia that makes me puke. A largely Punjabi phenomenon, these pirates routinely and illegally steal rides from the downtown clowns. Politically influential (I’m looking at YOU Harinder Takar) they run the GTAA limo stand like Tony Soprano. They treat passengers like garbage and today they made a mockery of the political process at City Hall.

Enraged that Toronto would cut them off from downtown hotel pickups, the limo louses started a mini-riot that had Council speaker Sandra Bussin almost at wits end (memo to Sandra: maybe the speaker’s job isn’t for you).

The audio and video sounded and looked like a fight in a foreign parliament. Completely ridiculous. And they got their way…even though there were a couple of arrests and trespassing tickets, the buggers had the issue put off until later.

Enough already. Build a fixed link to Pearson and put these bullies out of business.

Source: Stafford’s blog

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Amu The Film

Writing by shinda on Saturday, 17 of February , 2007

Even though most of you have your attention and sights set on All Star Weekend, I thought it would be safe to share some info about some other happenings, specifically Amu, a movie that looks at the whole 1984 Riots in Delhi.

I haven’t seen the movie myself, but will probably try and make it sometime to check it out soon, just because it does seem promising. By promising I mean that it does seem to have some potential to educate if not give some insight into just a part of what happened in 1984. I remember few years back there was Hawyian, but that movie no where near lived up to the hype surrounding it, and instead felt more like a SSA/COSS meeting that was aimed at tackling a problem, but instead settled everything by pulling the whole “mis-communication” line.

Hopefully Amu will be different. Hopefully it will take a solid stand and not really sit on the fence as much as I feel Hawyian did. From what I’ve been told by those who have watched it, the movie is worth watching and supporting, so I’ll give it a chance and see what happens.

I’ll probably follow up with a review of it if I do get a chance to check it out, which I do hope is pretty soon. For those interested, below is the official trailer with the synopsis from the site and local show times. The organizers are hoping to get enough people out this weekend to help fuel this movie’s play time at the given theaters since it is limited and the theaters intent on keeping the movie running is motivated almost entirely by ticket sales.

Summary:

Amu is the journey of Kajori Roy, a 21-year-old Indian American woman who has lived in the US since the age of 3. After graduating from UCLA Kaju goes to India to visit her relatives. There she meets Kabir, a college student from an upper class family who is disdainful of Kaju’s wide-eyed wonder at discovering the “real India”. Undeterred Kaju visits the slums, crowded markets and roadside cafes of Delhi. In one slum she is struck by an odd feeling of déjà vu. Soon after she starts having nightmares. Kabir gets drawn into the mystery of why this is happening particularly when he discovers that she is adopted.

Meanwhile Kaju’s adoptive mother – Keya Roy, a single parent and civil rights activist in LA, arrives unannounced in Delhi. She is shocked to discover that Kaju has been visiting the slums. Although Kaju mistakes her mother’s response to a typical Indian over protectiveness – Keya’s fears are deeper rooted.

Slowly Kaju starts piecing together what happened to her birth parents and mother and daughter clash as Kaju discovers she has been lied to her whole life. What was the truth? Why was it suppressed? As Kaju and Kabir undertake this quest they both discover their families involvement with a man made tragedy of immense proportions which took place twenty years ago in the capital city of India: the massacre of thousands of people of the Sikh faith. In a searing climax the young people are forced to confront the reality of the past and how it affects the present.

Official Website: http://www.amuthefilm.com 

Local Showtimes (as found on the website):

TORONTO

Opening: Feb 16:

Cineplex Carlton
20 Carlton St. (at Yonge St.), Toronto
(416) 598-2309
Show Times: Mon – Fri: 4 30, 7, 9.30
                   Sat Sun: 1.30, 4.30, 7, 9.30

AMC Kennedy Commons
33 William Kitchen Rd.
Scarborough
(416) 335 5323
Show Times: Mon – Thurs: 4.30, 7, 9.45
                   Fri: 2, 4.30, 7, 9.45
                   Sat. Sun: 11.30, 2, 4.30, 7, 9.45

Empire Square One
100 City Center Drive
Missisauga
(905) 275 2640
Show Times: 1, 4, 7, 9.40

Empire Empress Walk
5095 Yonge St. (Empress Ave.)
North York
(416) 223-9550
Show Times: Fri – Sun: 1, 4, 7, 10
                   Mon – Thurs: 4, 7, 10

Hindi print: without subtitles
Rainbow Woodbine
Woodbine Center Mall
500 Rexdale Blvd. (at Hwy 27)
Etobicoke
(416) 213 9048
Show Times: 12.45, 2.50, 4.50, 7, 9.10

MONTREAL

Opening: Feb 23

AMC Forum 22
2313 St. Catherine West
Montreal
(514) 904 1250

VANCOUVER


Opening: Feb 23

Empire Granville 7
855 Granville St.
Vancouver
(604) 684 4000

Cineplex Strawberry Hill Grande
12161 72nd Ave
Surrey, BC
(604) 501 9400

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Ghetto Fantasy

Writing by shinda on Thursday, 1 of February , 2007

Let me try and paint you a picture. The only people I can really trust are my boys. We all grew up together, we’ve all seen the same shit, and we’re all down for one another. We got each other’s backs through thick and thin. We’ll roll up on whoever disrespects us, and the whole one for all and all for one thing isn’t just something we say, its something we breathe, and bleed. Whoever thinks that they’re bigger then us, tighter then us or whatever is just another arrogant fuck who needs to be shown his place. If they think they got number’s then we’ll show them who got’s balls. If they think they got balls, then we’ll see how large. Man, they don’t even know who we really are. They don’t know my cousins they don’t know that we down with those next crews those next legends. Those guys from that next school they’re all pussies, they don’t got nobody. They all talk, and they all snitches. That next mans crew from down there, those guys are just clowns and if it ever came down to it, they ain’t down for shit. Gats, bats, golf clubs whatever it takes you gotta protect yourself and your boys. You gotta take it to them before they bring it to you, you can’t let them think you’re soft, not even for a minute.  I’ve seen and heard it all. I’ve seen things with my eyes that I can’t even begin to explain to anyone else, not my parents, teachers not the preachers none of them will ever be able to understand a thing about the life that I’m living. Yea, I session still and ya I’m flexing that next chic. Man that dude thinks hes hard because he dealing that girl, man I could flex her in a minute, she ain’t shit. Bun it yo, everyone’s fucked.

The above is the ghetto fantasy that we’re living in. The reality of the matter is, is that our neighborhoods are mostly all middle class. That the people at the other schools really don’t care that much for us, and that we really aren’t near as big or as bad as we like to believe. None the less most our high school lives we play the above roles adopt the above mind set, and we become characters to our own delusions, which are fed by our friends and older siblings every day. Stories of the older generations pass down year by year at every high school, narrating tales that rival those of Tony Montana, leading us deeper and deeper into being characters that are filled with more hate and disrespect then the last. While every generation had its own war stories, its fights, its crews, and everything else in between end of the day none of it really counts for much or matters for anything, a small minuscule piece of who we are; a time in our lives that we can usually accredit to being nothing more then adolescent stupidity. Yet with every passing year, that character we all once played becomes darker and filled with more disrespect and hate, the chances of new youth leaving it behind and being able to reflect on it and lay claim to their own acts of adolescent stupidity grows less and less. That’s because somewhere down that line the character consumes them, it becomes who they want to be and they can no longer tell between what’s real and whats fake. That fantasy is all they come to know and all they care to know, and that’s what needs to change.

See as fun as that whole fantasy is, as glamorous as that life may seem at that time, that life is one that has no future. There are no winners only losers. A fantasy that leaves many with addictions and habits that they spend there entire lives trying to fix. Demons that become so real that fear is all they come to know. A paranoia that they just can’t look past. And as redundant as it may seem we need to stop praising and glorifying it. The sessions, the bar fights, the jams the whatever the only way we can ever kill the fantasy is by killing the false sense of glory that we associate with it. This game of tag that we play where instead of tagging one another we beat each other into coma’s and into hospital beds needs to not get the praise that we all tend to give it, because sooner or later we all get a chance to be “it”, and in trying to deal with the pressure we cross the lines, each time trying to outdo one another that sooner or later we reach the point of no return.

Now many people may disagree with me. Saying and feeling that their own reality is different. That they’re more then just characters. That maybe I was a character, or lived the way I described but I don’t know the half of it. Then please prove me wrong. If we do want to live a thug life and the whole gangster life and all of that, then just stop being cowards. Lets all get together, every crew, every school whatever and lets have a revolution. Let’s go to where there’s a fight and help out. Darfur, Rawanda, Burma heck even India. You don’t even need to leave the country, start the revolution right here. Socail causes are a dime a dozen pick one support it, create change. But lets face it we don’t want to do that, we just want to be characters. We just want to be be cartoons, but if we really wanted to do something, if we were all that tough then lets start a revolution, lets get out of here, lets do something. If we’re going to get shot at, beat up, or fight then at least let it mean something. Let it have some meaning. Let it stand for something. Thats all I’m trying to say.

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Highlights from the Komagata Maru Meeting

Writing by shinda on Saturday, 2 of December , 2006

Last week there was a meeting held by the Government of Canada, at Pearson convention center to get the community’s input on what they wanted to see from the Government in an effort make amends for the Komagata Maru incident of 1914.

Incidentally enough the community came out in all its diverseness to put forth its views for the respected camps they represented. Having found and read the following posts [1, 2, 3, 4] on the whole thing I only felt it fare to toss my 10 cents into the mix and share some notable suggestions from the day, or at least those few that I can still remember.  (Note:- None of these are direct quotes, rather me paraphrasing to the best of my memory. Notably some names have been replaced, due to lack of memory of who actually said what, also other names have been replaced with groups who I felt pretty much said the same thing.)

Don’t insult the Sikhs, by referring to the incident as an Indo-Canadian tragedy. Majority of those involved in the tragedy were themselves Sikhs and seeing as how the Government and constitution of India [article. 25], fails to recognize and continues to deny Sikhs their rights, don’t ad insult to injury by lumping Sikhs and Indians together in the same boat.
- Pardeep Singh Nagra

Prime Minister, Stephen Harper is God incarnate. May all praise be upon Mr. Harper for doing what is not only morally right but for taking a firm stand for the protection of human rights. May God shower Stephen Harper with a long and prosperous life, and may the Conservative party continue to lead Canadians on the moral and just path. 
- Sam Hundal

If the government is truly sorry for the incidents of the Komagata Maru, and is serious about making amends, then it needs to also reflect and focus upon the policies that led up to the event just as much as it does on the actual event itself. We are seeing similar preferential, racial treatment today being reflected not only in Canada’s immigration laws and policies, but also in the judicial, and government offices appointments that mirror the racial and prejudicial policies and attitudes that existed in 1914. Apologize for yesterdays mistakes by not continually repeating those same mistakes today. 
- Sikhs For Social Justice and few other Sikh youth speakers, including COSS.

Focus on grass roots education in history classes, by giving the incident more then just an aside note in history books and making the Komagata Maru incident an essential part in the study of Canadian History. Reflect upon the Sikhs contribution to Canadian society and help to uncover the history, role and acknowledgement of the Sikhs throughout Canada’s formation. (I.e Details in regards to Sir John A McDonald’s recognition of the Sikh martial tradition.)
- Sandeep Singh Brar [Sikhs.org], COSS, and many others

Stop discriminating against us now. Give our elders old age pension.
- Various Sikh elders.

Other suggestions that were reflected by many included such things as:

  • A formal and written apology by the Government, in the house of commons
  • Memorial erected at Stanley Park to commemerate and educate about the tragedy.
  • Create a heritage commercial, on the incident.  [Click a segments on the right to play]
  • Make parliamentarians watch the documentary, (A Continuous Journey), on the Komagata Maru in the House of Commons
  • Play the documentary of the Komagata Maru on CBC (National Television)
  • Make an effort to honour the families of those aboard the Komagata Maru, and offer the kin of those rejected a chance to settle and immigrate to  Canada.

There were other points also discussed but the above was most of what stood out to me and that I was able to take back. There were various other speakers who also spoke, but I feel the above sums up the majority of what was spoken. Now that the ball is back in the Governments hands, lets see what they do, considering they want to get this done before April so that it doesn’t end up getting swallowed and forgotten about in another election.

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The Story of Jebus

Writing by shinda on Sunday, 26 of November , 2006

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