CHANDIGARH, Punjab—On the eve of launching a campaign to get justice for the 1984 Sikh genocide victims, the human rights body Amnesty International demanded that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Union government of India to probe cases related to Sikh genocide of 1984 should make its investigations public. The Amnesty International said that the SIT was not working in a transparent manner.
Interacting with media, Amnesty International‘s campaigner Mr. Sanam Sutirath Wazir sought comprehensive legal and policy reparations and reforms. He said that the SIT should frame charges against the suspects wherever it gets sufficient evidence of crime.
“The SIT raised hopes among victims and survivors that they would finally get justice. But the SIT’s apparent lack of transparency so far has been disturbing” said campaigner Wazir.
It may be recalled here that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) was constituted in February 2015 by the BJP led Union government of India to re-probe the cases of Sikh genocide of 1984.
Initially, the SIT was asked to submit the report within six months of its appointment but later its validity extended in two phases to February-2017.
WHAT CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE RSS MODI GOVERNMENT – they were trying to get Sikhs Justice …. no they are trying hide the culprit…… how much more delay can there be. As for Harinder the most anti-human troll still keeps poking his nose in can shut the hell up – he has no feelings for any humans so long as hindus are protected. His empires and nations are his major concern as always.
32 years on and what has the authorities done — NOTHING! Good learning of human nature is when all RSS Kute are shot down and taken out of the streets of Punjab and this includes all RSS Agents ……
Read History, Sikhs know how to get Justice learned from their Master Guru Gobind Singh Ji.
Yes let the Sikhs waste their time and energy on fruitless pursuit of Christian concept which has no relevance to their faith and keep scuttling around in Indian courts as they have been doing for past 32 YEARS! That should keep them busy, eh Harinder?
All of this is good learning of human nature.
Soms answer for genocide3 is resurrection and a persistent pursuit of a legal remedy.
1984 genocide was a trap which our simple leaders fell into.
It is not simply ‘human nature’ to commit human rights abuses and crimes against humanity. It is not natural to brutally murder, rape and loot. You make a choice to do that. The fact that the State encouraged you to make the wrong choice does not detract form individual responsibility to be decent and moral – the Nuremburg Trials rejected the defence offered by war criminals that what they did was in the name of the State with its full approval so they were not guilty of crimes against humanity. Indians – no white men involved despite your desire to pass culpability to phantom foreign empires of your mind – forgot their humanity and orchestrated the brutal MURDER, RAPE, ARSON and LOOTING of SIKHS and were and continue to be protected by the Indian State because they acted in her name. The brutal killing, looting and raping of Sikhs during the “November 1984 Sikh Genocide” took place in Delhi, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Jammu & Kashmir, Chattisgarh, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Maharashtra. As per official records over 3000 Sikhs were killed but the fact is, over 30,000 were killed (mostly burnt alive) throughout India and over 2,00,000 were displaced. Hundreds of Sikh women gang raped throughout India by goons, police officers and civil administrators and told that next generation (after rape) will be loyal to Government. Hundreds of Gurdwaras and thousands of Guru Granth Sahibs were burnt and desecrated. Around 300 Sikh soldiers done to death in uniform by fellow soldiers. 120 Sikhs working at the Bokaro Steel Plant Jharkhand thrown alive into burning furnaces. Children as old as 13 days of age roasted alive on gas stoves in Kanpur and other cities in India. In Agartala, Tripura 40 Sikh families who took refuge in a police station to save their lives were burnt alive in the police station. In Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh 12 Sikhs were hanged from the ceiling at the railway platform. Small children killed ruthlessly by pulling their legs apart whil their mothers being raped. In Haryana and Madhya Pradesh Sikh women taken into hostage and raped during November 1984, still held in captivity by the goons. Sikh women taken from refugee camps and raped even after November 6, 1984. Sikhs on public roads burnt alive, dragged out from trains and lynched on the railway platforms and set on fire Property of Sikhs worth millions was looted and destroyed. Massacre of Sikhs planned in a meeting organized at 24 Akbar Road, New Delhi on October 31, 1984 attended by members of Parliament and senior members of the Congress party including Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar, Kamal Nath, Dharam Das Shastri, Vasant Sathe, HKL Bhagat, Lalit Makhen, Arjun Das amongst others. State media showed inflammatory speeches and scenes with slogans “Khoon ka badla khoon” (blood for blood) and “Khoon ke chintey sikhon ke ghar tak pahunchni chahiye” (Splashes of blood should reach the doorsteps of Sikhs). Police commandos from Police headquarters Madhuban, Haryana on the orders of Bhajan Lal, the then Chief Minister of Haryana send to commit the massacre of Sikhs. Expert arsonists and professional goons brought from outside and transported to different areas in Government buses supplied with inflammable materials to burn Sikhs, Sikh houses, businesses and Sikh temples. Police either actively participated in committing the massacre of Sikhs or stood as silent spectators while Sikhs burnt alive. Police even supplied diesel from police jeeps to the arsonists. Police disarmed the Sikhs before mobs attacked them. No curfew imposed or army called while most of the killings took place. When army called, deliberately designed to be ineffective. We know these facts not just form the witness testimony of Sikh victims despite media blackout and massive intimidation but because of SIKh NRIs, outside charities, NGOs and even the leaked cables form the US embassy and from the cabinet papers of Downing Street. After 32 years the organizers and perpetrators of the Genocide roam free and even enjoy positions of power – the Congress Party showing no shame let alone remorse even tried to appoint Kamal Nath as their chief officer in Punjab, homeland and heartland of the Sikhs. None punished for killings of the Sikhs. Ten commissions have failed to bring Justice. Affidavits filed before commissions found lying at the residences of those accused of organizing and committing the massacre. The Public did not react with mix of sponsored and spontaneous anger as you have tried to claim in previous posts – they were proactively instigated and manipulated by the State (led by Indira Gandhi’s son intent upon vengeance – what other democracy in the world would appoint the child of a assassinated leader to head the police and army?!) to commit murder against Sikhs and think afterwards (as you do) that it was okay. What was done to the Sikhs was not okay then and it is not okay now.
SIKHS WERE STABBED IN THE BACK BY ENGLAND AS WELL, WIKI LEAKS DOCUMENTS SHOWED THAT ENGLAND PM KNEW INDIRA WAS PLANNING TO ATTACK SIRI DARBAR SAHIB, SIKHS GAVE THEIR LIVES FIGHTING FOR THE BRITISH DURING WORLD WARS, AND THEN THEY GOT STABBED IN THE BACK BY THE ENGLISH PM MARGARET, SIKHS HELPED THE BRITISH BEAT THE STUPID SO CALLED “FIRST WAR OF INDEPENDENCE” IN INDIA AGAINST THOSE LOSERS FROM EASTERN PARTS OF INDIA WHO THOUGHT THEY CAN BEAT THE BRITISH THEN CONTROL THE ENTIRE INDIAN SUBCOTINENT BUT NO, SIKHS HELPED BRITISH BECAUSE DURING THE SIKH-ANGLO WARS, THOSE SAME PEOPLE HELPED BRITISH DEFEAT SIKHS SO WHY SHOULD SIKHS HAVE HELPED THEM? SO SIKHS HELPED THE BRITISH MAINTAIN THEIR COLONIAL RULE AND THE JEWELS AND PROPERTY THAT THE BRITISH STOLE FROM THE SIKH EMPIRE HELPED THE BRITISH FUND THEIR COLONIAL RULE SO BRITAIN WHY DID YOU NOT GET INVOLVED TO HELP SIKHS IN 1984? WHERE WERE YOU? HUH? WHY DID YOU TURN YOUR BACK AGAINST A VERY SMALL MINORITY GROUP THAT PLAYED A HUGE ROLE IN HELPING YOU WIN WARS IN EUROPE AND IN INDIA AND YOU LOOTED FROM US AND STOLE OUR KINGDOM BUT WE STILL HELPED YOUR SORRY ASSES AND THEN WHEN INDIA INVADED PUNJAB AND ATTACKED OUR GURDWARAS AND OUR PEOPLE WHERE WERE YOU ENGLAND? WHERE WERE YOU? WHAT DID YOU DO?
SOMETIMES IT IS SO ANNOYING WHEN PEOPLE COMPARE SIKH STRUGGLES TO JEWISH STRUGGLES, YES A GENOCIDE IS A GENOCIDE BUT SIKH GENOCIDE HAPPENED IN INDIA, NOT IN WESTERN DEMOCRATIC NATIONS OR IN EUROPE…. INDIA IS A SUBCONTINENT AND SIKHS HAVE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES ON THEIR OWN, NO ONE CAME TO HELP SIKHS WHEN THIS DISGUSTING NATION OF INDIA INVADED PUNJAB WITH THEIR DISGUSTING ARMY AND MASSACRED PEOPLE IN AMRITSAR… INDIA SPREAD PROPAGANDA, MASSIVE PROPAGANDA TO JUSTIFY THEIR ACTIONS… SIKHS EVEN FAUGHT IN WORLD WAR TWO AGAINST THE NAZIS, SIKHS FOUGHT AGAINST THE MUGHALS AND HELP STUPID INDIA WIN WARS, NOW LOOK AT SIKHS, SIKHS ARE TREATED LIKE CRAP AND NO ONE HELPED THEM, NO ONE IN INDIA WHO WAS NON-SIKH STOOD UP AND SAID THIS WAS WRONG, WOW, WHAT A DISGUSTING NATION, TURNED THEIR BACKS AGAINST SIKHS AND BLAMED THEM FOR EVERYTHING WHEN ALL THEY WANTED WAS MORE AUTONOMY AND JUSTICE AND TO BE TREATED EQUALLY
We must deal with the 1984 Genocide -3 in a manner the Jews did in World War -2.
SERIOUSLY SHUT THE HELL UP HARINDER OKAY, HOW DID JEWS DEAL WITH GENOCIDE? THIS IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT ISSUE BECAUSE EUROPE WAS AT WAR AND ONCE THE GERMANS WERE DEFEATED, MANY WESTERN COUNTRIES WERE ALLIES AND HELPED CREATE THE UNITED NATIONS, ETC ETC, ….. SIKHS DO NOT HAVE A NATION AND THEY ARE NOT PART OF THE WESTERN WORLD AND THE WESTERN WORLD ONLY CARES ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS WHERE IT BENEFITS THEM, THEY DONT CARE ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN INDIA AND THATS ANOTHER REASON WHY INDIA GETS AWAY WITH BEING THE WORLDS FAKEST DEMOCRACY… JEWS DIDN’T JUST RECEIVE JUSTICE BY THEMSELVES, OTHER COUNTRIES AND PEOPLE HELPED THEM AND KILLED NAZIS OR ARRESTED THEM
The Jews dealt with their genocide in world war 2 by establishing their own sovereign homeland country of Israel where there was no chance of them ever being persecuted ever again.
We greatly appreciate the efforts Amnesty International is putting to get justice for the victims of 1984 genocide . Trouble is majority community residing in India doesn’t know the meaning of human rights. No matter which political party comes into power their discriminatory attitude towards the minorities be it Sikh, Christian Muslim etc is the same. Unless their attitudes changes ( which I don’t think is going to happen) nothing concrete will come out these inquiries.
ITS NOT JUST ABOUT PEOPLE BEING UNAWARE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, THE BIGGEST FACTOR IS THAT INDIAN POLITICS ARE SO CORRUPT AND EVIL TO THE CORE BUT HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES THIS IMAGE TO THE MAJORITY THAT THEY ARE “DEMOCRATIC”, AND “CARING” AND “FOR THE PEOPLE” ETC., BUT IN REALITY SIKHS AND MANY OTHER MINORITIES KNOW WHAT INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICIANS REALLY ARE, THEY ARE DISGUSTINGLY CORRUPT TO THE CORE SO FOR EXMAPLE THE ENTIRE CONGRESS PARTY WAS INVOLVED IN THE SIKH GENOCIDE, IT IS A KNOWN FACT THAT MEN LIKE ARUN NEHRU, KAMAL NATH, AMITABH BACHAN AND JADGISH TYTLER WERE ALL VERY VERY CLOSE ALLIES TO RAJIV GANDHI AND INDIRA GANDHI SO IF KAMAL NATH AND HIS FRIENDS GET CONVICTED, IT WILL BE PROOF THAT RAJIV GANDHI WAS ALSO INVOLVED SO THEY ARE ALWAYS GOING TO DENY SIKHS JUSTICE SO THEY CAN PROTECT THEIR CONGRESS BRAND AND LEGACY OF THE INDIRA GANDHI FAMILY, EVERY YEAR SONIA GANDHI AND HER DISGUSTING CHILDREN THROW FLOWERS AT MURTHIS OR STATUES OF RAJIV GANDHI AND INDIRA GANDHI TO COMMEMORATE THEIR MEMORY, HOWEVER, IF THE CONGRESS PARTY LEADERS GET LEGALLY HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS GENOCIDE THEN IT WILL RUIN THE ENTIRE IMAGE,…. WHAT SIKHS NEED TO CONTINUE TO DO IS CREATE AWARENESS AND KEEP EXPOSING THESE GOONS UNTIL THERE IS A PUBLIC OUTCRY IN INDIA FOR THESE GOONS TO FINALLY BE THROWN IN JAIL … I ALSO LIKE THAT SIKHS FOR JUSTICE HAS FILED CASES AGINST THESE DISGUSTING CREATURES IN CANADA AND THE USA SO IF THEY EVER COME TO THESE COUNTRIES, MAYBE THEY CAN BE CONVICTED FAIRLY RATHER THEN IN CORRUPT INDIA WHERE CRIMINALS ALWAYS GET AWAY