November 1984

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

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24TH ANNIVERSARY OF NOV 84 SIKH GENOCIDE

SIKH LOBBY

Houses of Parliament, London - Thursday 30 October 2008

Jubilee Room: 3.00-5.00pm

Host: Rob Marris MP, Chair All Party Parliamentary Group for UK Sikhs

Please contact your local MP as soon as possible by ringing 020 7219 3000 and invite the MP to meet you in the Jubilee Room 9: 3-5pm.

A year long campaign of events and activities linked to June & November 1984 is being launched on the 24th anniversary of November 1984

The Campaign 84 Team is delighted to announce that Harvinder Singh Phoolka will be the special guest in the UK from Sunday 26 October – Sunday 2 November 2008. He is a senior advocate in the Supreme Court, and former additional advocate general, Punjab. He stands apart from his colleagues in the legal fraternity. At the risk of incurring the Congress government's wrath, he took up the cases of the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms. He can be credited with keeping alive the fight for justice for the 1984 victims, has been the force behind setting up of the Citizen’s Justice Committee and has spearheaded one of the longest and most torturous legal battles in modern history.

Harvinder Singh Phoolka will speak at a number of Gurdwaras on Sunday 26 October and Sunday 2 November. He will also be the main guest speaker at an event in the UK Parliament on Thursday 30 October at 3pm (Jubilee Room). He will also give interviews and appear on a number of discussion programmes on radio. To enable our message to reach non-Sikhs various meetings are being set up and interviews are also being lined up with the mainstream media to coincide with the 24th anniversary of November 1984.

The programme confirmed for Harvinder Singh Phoolka is as follows:

Sunday 26 October

Morning – Guru Nanak Parkash Gurdwara, Coventry

Midday – Guru Teg Bahadur Gurdwara, Leicester

Evening – Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara, Gravesend

Wednesday 29 October

6.30pm – Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Park Avenue, Southall

Sunday 2 November

Morning – Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara, Slough

Midday – Central Gurdwara, Shepherd’s Bush

Afternoon – Gurdwara to be confirmed

Radio interviews

10am - Monday 27 October: Raaj Radio

7pm - Monday 27 October: Panjab Radio

8pm – Wednesday 29 October: Akash Radio

For further information contact:

• Bhai Amrik Singh – Sikh Federation (UK) 07860 633488
  
• Bhai Dabinderjit Singh – Sikh Secretariat 07919 166163
  
• Bhai Didar Singh – Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Southall 07904 422188
  
• Bhai Gurjit Singh – Khalsa Human Rights 07877 315993
  
• Bhai Kuldip Singh – Federation of Sikh Organisations 07877 067922
  
• Bhai Narinderjit Singh - Guru Nanak Darbar, Gravesend 01474 536393
  

[liveandletlive]

Can the title be edited to 'genocide'?

Sorry.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Can the title be edited to 'genocide'?

Sorry.

Title has been changed to refer to genocide.

'Pogrom' is the correct term as opposed to 'riot' which is incorrect.

[TejiKaur]

This is just 1 case of many. It was our own sisters, mothers and brothers.

Any vigils or programmes being held to remember and ask for justice???

1984: Massacre of Sikhs

Some Case Histories

From Report of the Citizens' Commission, consisting of Justice S. M. Sikri, Badrud-Din Tyabji (Indian Civil Service), Rajeshwar Dayal (Indian Foreign Service), Govind Narain (Indian Civil Service) and TCA Srinivasavardan (Indian Administrative Service). The report was released just a few months after the massacre.

[Reproduced from The Sikh Review, November 2000]

Case-6

A woman from Trilokpuri described her harrowing experience. She and her husband, a Lobana Sikh, originally from Sind, had migrated to Rajasthan in 1947. About fifteen years ago they had moved to Delhi in search of better prospects. During the slum clearance drive of 1974-75, they had been resettled in Trilokpuri.

She and her husband and three of their children survive, but the eldest son aged 18 was killed on 1 November.

She described the mob led by the Congress-I block pradhan as consisting of some people from the same block and others from neighbouring blocks and nearby villages. While the block pradhan identified Sikh houses and urged the mobs to loot, burn and kill, the women were herded together into one room. Some of them ran away but were pursued to the nearby nallah where they were raped. Their shrieks and cries for help fell on deaf ears. From among the women held in the room, the hoodlums asked each other to select whomsoever they chose. All the women were stripped and many dishonoured. She herself was raped by ten men. Their lust satisfied, they told the women to get out, naked as they were. For fear of their lives they did so, hiding their shame as best as possible. Each begged or borrowed a garment from relenting neighbours and sought shelter wherever they could.

gurufateh g

sikhs for justice is signing petitions

we need alot of help if u can

thank u

www.sikhsforjustice.org