The riots took place in many parts of India. Plus many killings took place is cities like Bhillai, Bhokaro. The same forces who had plotted the assassination of Indira Gandhi had plotted the massacre of the innocent Sikhs. The services of several local Congress leaders were of course utilised for the purpose.
The attempt to point fingers merely at the local Congress leaders for the gruesome events is nothing but an attempt to conceal the role of the real conspirators behind the plot. The Delhi police was ordered to stay away to let mobs kill Sikhs, rape women and burn their houses and properties. Sikh policemen were not allowed to go out. Because they knew that if Sikh policemen were allowed then they will certainly act to save lives. And it was not riots but very well planned, organised and executed Sikh Genocide by Congress Govt.
The Congress leaders with address lists were leading mobs to attack Sikh houses and businesses. The sad thing is that Hindutava majority voters supported Congress for killing thousands of innocent Sikhs, by giving Congress the largest majority in the Parliament elections. Rajeev Gandhi openly justified the killing by saying, When a big tree falls, it shakes the earth.
And Rajeev Gandhi openly rewarded and protected the guilty Congress leaders and police officers involved in innocent killings. And still in 34 years the ruling Govts. Very shameful thing for justice system. For a writer of English, SHekhar Gupta is quite illiterate.
He and others keep calling this a riot. A riot is a violent clash between two groups. Anyone who says that only Congress was involved can continue to live in their world full of lies.
Congress initiated it but everyone else rejoiced in the rape, murder and plunder. There are were three populations — the perpetuators, the silent majority who justified and rejoiced in these killings and the minority a miniscule number who stood by the Sikhs.
India has sown the seeds of hatred in the 80s against the Sikhs and these seeds are bearing fruit today in the violence against every citizen. How old are you Sir?
Do you have any idea behind the root cause? India always loved Sikhs more than the rest of the community. It loves them till date.
How long you will betray your self? You have nothing to achieve anymore. Be useful to society now. Come down from the wall between GODI media and sincere media. I have been admiring you since almost 30 years. Shekar Gupta does not want a closer to 84 riots as he seems to have ran out of his walk the talk and losing his ground if Gujarat riots cannot be blamed on Ataljee led BjPso also Congress party no doubt some Congress men were involved. Noone talks of the Godhra train burning an organised and deliberate attack on Hindus.
Hindu bashing is a fashion for commies and pseudos. Shekhar Gupta why it took you to publish this as late as What did you do. You just did the reporting. Could you and others not have filed an FIR. You are just stoking up old fires during the time of Election. An offence is carru d out by an individual or group of individuals In furtherance of common intent to fulfill the conspiracy.
A political party unless it supports such violence should not be blamed particularly when the a political leader often seen to change the sides. Rajeev Gandhi did make the unfortunate analogy of large tree falling and the earth shaking. But that is not good enough to hold that it was Congress who was responsible.
Forget blaming parties , we need to recognise the appeal that communalism and violence still dominate our lives. I fully agree with you General. Having grown and lived in Delhi and that too opposite to Gurdwara I have seen and been with sikh citizens.
If one can find two really gentlemen sikh, one would find more the other way. It was silent anger which got burst out which I think should be condemned as no should be allowed to kill in name hatred others. You are not the only one who has said this. Many people have said this. It has also appeared in Quora from first hand witneses accounts. The Army was not called. Who was responsible for this deliberate omission? Was the Congress not in power at the Centre?
Was the Lt. Governor of Delhi not told to stay inert? Was the murderousness and looting not intentionally allowed? This is a fine example that when citizens are banned from owning personal safety weapons they died worse deaths than as a POW.
Could the mob kill so many people and fanilies if they owned bunch of personal weapons, semi automatic rifles and pistols for their safety? People that are denied weapons at home registered are Basically a slave race. However BJP leaders have no right to talk about Sikh riots when their own hands blood strained ever since demolition of Babri Masjid and of course Gujarat riots.
What non-sense? Many Sikh leaders will attest to this in Delhi. There was no doubt, a general anger among Hindus against the sikh militancy but this was more prominent in Haryana and Eastern Punjab, not at all in Delhi.
So also Congress leaders were in forefront saving sikh. I would still condemn where sikhs or others in Gujarat. I am all aware of the kind of hatred spread by jansangh in Punjab. Our Hindu neighbours reassured us that they would protect us. Street patrols were formed and young people were placed on rooftops to look out for approaching mobs.
We patrolled the area with whatever weapons we could find: hockey sticks, cricket bats, tennis rackets, axes, broomsticks. My father had a ceremonial Sikh sword, four feet long, but it was blunt and useless. I walked with it unsheathed, unsure whether I would have the nerve to ever use it.
We could see fires raging in the distance. We heard that Sikhs were being killed in large numbers, but there was no way to find out. I have never before or since experienced what we felt for the next three days: a sense of being hunted.
I was the enemy in my own country; some of my own countrymen were looking for me and my family. Unbeknown to us, mobs had been collected by senior members of the ruling Congress party. Electoral lists were distributed so Sikh households could be identified. The mobs, already suffused with anger, were plied with alcohol, paid a thousand rupees each, and given canisters of kerosene.
The mob would surround a Sikh house and shout for all the males to step outside. The men would then have their legs broken before being doused with kerosene and set on fire, as the women and children watched. The violence continued for three days. About 8, Sikhs were killed in North India, with more than 3, in Delhi. We went looking for a family we knew a few miles away but the streets were deserted and the family had fled. We found a relief camp and left her there.
Several thousand of the widows and children from the carnage were rehoused in what is now known as the Widow Colony. The women were in state of perpetual mourning, the children neglected and left to their own devices. All around they could see people who had killed their fathers, grandfathers, uncles and brothers; the killers safe in the knowledge that they were beyond the law.
Along with some friends, I started visiting the colony, initially just to play with the children and to give them some comfort. They entered Sikh neighbourhoods and killed Sikhs indiscriminately. The violence continued in Punjab in the s due to the armed separatist Khalistan movement, which sought independence from India. Operation Blue Star was a military operation carried out between June 1 and 8, , to flush out Bhindranwale and other armed militants from the Golden Temple complex.
The military action was criticised by Sikhs worldwide who had interpreted it as an assault on the Sikh religion. Bhagat died due to long illness in Bharatiya Janata Party and its ally Shiromani Akali Dal have time and again attacked Congress leaders for their role in the massacre. You can manage them any time by clicking on the notification icon. This section is about Living in UAE and essential information you cannot live without.
By clicking below to sign up, you're agreeing to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Friday, November 12, Asia India. India Pakistan Philippines. All Sections. Sikh shops and establishments were targeted and burnt in Delhi during anti sikh riots in Relatives grive at a funeral after the sikh riots in Delhi. Over three days in Nov , Sikhs had lost their lives here. Image Credit: AFP. Later, Bhindranwale made the sacred complex an armoury and headquarters of Khalistani militants.
In the operation, Bhindranwale died and the militants were removed from Golden Temple.
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