Anti-Sikh riots

[sarblohsingh2004]

Vaheguru Jee Ka Khalsa, Vaheguru Jee Kee Fateh !

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Anti-Sikh riots: Widows endure long wait for justice

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NDTV Correspondent

Friday, January 28, 2005 (New Delhi):

The Justice Nanavati report on the anti-Sikh riots, which killed nearly 3000 people is now ready.

NDTV has learnt that the report, which will be submitted to the Home Ministry next week will not hold the Congress party directly responsible for the violence.

Instead it will recommend reinvestigation of cases against Congress MP Sajjan Kumar.

Devastated community

It has been more than 20 years since the riots in the capital and the families of the victims are still awaiting justice.

Governments have come and gone and promises have been made and broken, leaving behind a bitter and devastated community.

Collective tragedies

There is a strange unease in the widows' colony of Tilak Vihar where the neighbours are bound together by collective tragedies.

All homes in the area have lost at least one family member and they still wait for justice.

The long wait has made them bitter and angry and all it takes is one question about that day for them to vent their anger.

They are tired of deposing endlessly at various courts and commission without any impact.

Rehabilitation attempts

Attempts at rehabilitating the widows are all over. A

sewing centre was started immediately after the riots but the average earning is just Rs 30 per day and provides employment to only 14 widows.

And yet women like Amrit Kaur, who at 90 is too old to sew, continue to come here out of habit.

The other women hope that with age even their memory will fade so that they are not obsessed with the riots anymore.

"Indira Gandhi's killers have been hung. What about those that have killed our men?" said a victim.

Crude reminder

When these women were widowed, they had to leave their homes and look for jobs, leaving behind children at home who grew up neglected.

Many of them took to crime and drugs.

This entire colony is a reminder of the atrocities that were committed on the Sikh community and yet it seems they are forgotten.

An entire generation has grown up being unable to come to terms with their past and with an uncertain future.

[Bachan Vidya]

We as sikhs with our multi -million pound gurdwaras!

We never did enough to help them!

He it says the kids went to drugs and crime. Another report said how many young girls are prostitutes!

What value are our huge gurdwaras when this is happening!