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Recordings from past webinars, live events and presentations by SikhRI presenters, as well as creative explorations of Sikh concepts.
Recordings from past webinars, live events and presentations by SikhRI presenters, as well as creative explorations of Sikh concepts.
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The 1984 anti-Sikh violence is one of the most elaborate cover-up exercises by successive central governments over the past two decades.
Many might not know that the 1984 attacks were actually repulsed at first. Although the attackers’ initial attacks were fought off at first, they waited to return stronger.
How were the Sikhs found? What processes were enacted to pinpoint the targets? Identification was made through a variety of methods.
There was large discussion about the root of the attacks. It was concluded that they were likely organized by Congressmen or their supported organizations and associations.
Premeditation was at the core of the 1984 Genocide. The attacks that plagued the Sikh community across Delhi were much more than spontaneous expressions of “madness” or “grief and anger” at the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
The Sikh Genocide was much more than causation. It had been festering for a while.
38 years ago today, a mob of men pounced on the cavalcade of the president of India, Giani Zail Singh. Luckily however, the president’s limousine drove past them before the assailants could reach the convoy.
On this day, 38 years ago, India’s Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, is shot dead by two of her bodyguards at Safdarjung road residence. She was rushed to the AIIMS and an announcement was made specifying that both of the bodyguards were Sikhs.
In “My Bleeding Punjab,” Khushwant Singh speaks of the realization and empathy that arose from the 1984 Genocide. “I realized what Jews must have felt like in Nazi Germany. The killing assumed the proportion of a genocide of the Sikh community.”
