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On this day, in 1984, one of the bloodiest and most brutal episodes of communal violence in independent India broke out following the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Over roughly three days, at least 2,733 Sikhs were killed in Delhi.
Replug | If justice remains impossible for the victims of 1984, when the violence took place in the capital and where the evidence is so ample, it seems likely that justice will continue to elude the vast majority of such victims anywhere in the country. http://bit.ly/3ezKaXp
Replug | “There is enough material on record to show that at many places, the police had taken away their [the Sikh residents’] arms or other articles with which they could have defended themselves against the attacks by mobs,” the Misra Commission noted. https://bit.ly/2TF92or
According to the former petroleum secretary Avtar Singh Gill, Lalit Suri of Lalit Hotels told him, “Clearance has been given by Arun Nehru for the killings in Delhi and the killings have started.” Gill described Suri as “the errand boy for Rajiv Gandhi.” http://bit.ly/3jIX47K
Replug | Most liberals keen to defend the Congress bury the truth of the violence of 1984 to retain their social privileges. This is a wilful suppression of the truth. It is a deliberate decision to overlook the stains of murder that still surround them. https://bit.ly/2U5SuH3
