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JAMMU: Demanding action against perpetrators of 1984 anti-Sikh riots, member of Sikh community staged protest seeking justice and probe in all such massacres of minorities in India.
Various Sikh organisations including Sikh Intellectuals Circle, Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), International Sikh Federation, Sikh Students Federation and Jammu Kashmir Sikh Youths on Thursday took out a protest rally from Indra Chowk to Press Club of Jammu in memory of thousands of Sikhs killed in November 1984 in entire India and Jammu region of J&K State.
The protesters expressed serious concern over the delay in justice delivery system in India and said Sikh community can never forget such organised genocide.
Sikh leaders with one voice said that after the lapse of nearly 33 years the minority Sikh community is still striving for justice and culprits are roaming freely, enjoying protection and patronage by successive regimes of this so called democracy. “In November 1984, 17 innocent Sikhs were burnt alive in Gurdwara at Talwara Reasi and unfortunately till date not a single person has been arrested. Similarly successive regimes in Jammu and Kashmir have failed to deliver justice in January 1989 Sikh Massacre in Jammu and mysterious killing of 35 innocent Sikhs in Chhitisingpura (Kashmir) in 2000,” they emphasised.
Narinder Singh Khalsa said that continuous denial of justice is an endorsement of the crime against humanity by successive regimes in India, which has badly shaken the faith of Sikh community in so called democracy and justice in India. He appealed to the UNO, World Human Rights organisations to constitute truth and justice commission for probing all such massacres of minorities in India.
Parvinder Singh, Sukhdev Singh, Gagandeep Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Nain Singh, Jagjeet Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Jagdev Singh, Balwinder Singh, Rashmeet Kour, Gurdev Singh, Mamohan Singh, Sukhdev Singh, Manjit Singh Rocky, Amrinder Singh, Ravinder Singh and Ranjeet Singh were also present.