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Sikh group asks US to declare 1984 violence as
genocide
Friday February 08, 2013 12:29:15 PM,
IANS
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Washington:
A US Sikh rights group has met State Department officials in
support of its petition to the Obama administration to recognise
the violence against Sikhs in India in November 1984 as
"genocide".
"Contrary to what is commonly portrayed, November 1984 was not the
result of a spontaneous reaction of the masses on the
assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi," Sikh for Justice (SFJ)
legal advisor Gurpatwant Singh Pannun said.
"It was rather an organized, deliberate and politically engineered
action by Congress (party) leaders," he said.
In a media release Thursday, SFJ said to secure support for its
"genocide" petition, it had met various officials of the US
Department of State.
It had also submitted a legal brief, statements of survivors and
evidence relating to the 2011 discovery of mass graves in
Hondh-Chillar, Haryana, and other states of India.
The group also presented official Indian government records
showing that a total of 35,000 claims of deaths and serious
injuries were filed by Sikhs who suffered attacks during November
1984.
More than 20,000 of these claims were from attacks that took place
in the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh,
Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa,
Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, it said.
On Dec 15, a petition with more than 46,000 signatures was
submitted to the Obama Administration urging it to recognise the
violence against Sikhs during November 1984 as "genocide".
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