This library contains comprehensive information on Crimes Against Sikhs (Crimes Against Humanity), State Terrorism and Sikh Genocide with associated articles, books and reports.
(1992) A report on the aftermath of Sikh genocide.
(1985) Arguments and information presented before the Misra by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC).
(2005) Media press reports from July 2001 to January 2005.
(2009) A great booklet on the events of 1984 Sikh genocide.
(2014) This article was created as a series of 28 blogs by Ajmer Singh in October 2014. With Ajmer Singh's kind permission we have collated the blogs into a single volume so that it may be preserved for the future.
(unknown) Ten commissions and committees have so far enquired into the 1984 Sikh genocide. Most like this one were miscarriages of justice.
(2010) Ten commissions and committees enquired into the 1984 Sikh genocide. Most were miscarriages of justice. However, India has refused to folow its own laws and the RTI Act (Right To Information). India marked public investigations as secret, refused access and then said it no longer had the information.
(2003) A great article on the torture and custodial violence that continued to be regularly reported in Punjab, despite the end of the militancy period in the state in the mid-1990s. In this report, Amnesty International makes the link between the impunity enjoyed by police officers during and after the militancy period and the continuation of torture today. The report focuses on abuses committed in police custody from 1984.
(unknown) Devenderpal Singh Bhullar entered Germany to seek asylum on 18th /19th December 1994. Against UN conventions, he was betrayed by Gernamy authorities and deported back to India on 17th January 1995 to face state torture and the death penalty.
(1985) A short article on the 1984 Sikh genocide by Manushi.
(1994) The bloody conflict in the Indian state of Punjab drew to a close in 1993, but the restoration of an elected government has not meant the restoration of the rule of law. To the contrary, the Punjab police continue to torture, kill or cause their victims to disappear with impunity. The price of the government's apparent success against the separatists is the legacy of these abuses: a corrupt and brutal police force whose recourse to murder and torture has been sanctioned by the state as an acceptable means of combatting political violence. Dead Silence documents incidents of torture, extrajudicial executions and disappearances by the police, which took place between 1991 and 1993. There is no indication that the government at the state or federal level has made any effort to investigate these abuses or prosecute the perpetrators, even though the identity of the latter is well-documented.
(2003) International law establishes that forced disappearances are grave human rights abuses that violate the right to be free from arbitrary arrest, the right to be free from cruel and inhuman treatment, the right to liberty, and the right to life, all rights guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. International law, embodied in treaties and the jurisprudence of international tribunals, requires that States investigate all cases of forced disappearances in which State liability is at issue. States are obligated to conduct effective and thorough investigations of all allegations of forced disappearances and to provide a remedy for those whose rights have been violated. Consequently, the government of India is obligated under international law to investigate all cases of alleged disappearances across Punjab. However it is clear that India has no intention of honouring its obligations.
(1986) A short article on the 1984 Sikh genocide by Manushi and the experience at Tilak Vihar, which was one of the worst affected area's.
(1984) A great short article on the 1984 Sikh genocide by Manushi.
(1986) The sacrifice of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale's life, and the lives of some of his followers, drew attention to the fact that many Sikhs live by a model of society opposed to India's.' 'What is required for the future peace of India and of the Sikh Punjab is the implementation of the Anandpur Sahib resolution.' A great article.
(1987) A booklet from the author on issues faced by Sikhs.
(2004) In the days that followed her death on October 31, mobs encouraged by Gandhi's Congress Party roamed Sikh neighborhoods, butchering men and boys with savage brutality, setting fire to the still-living and the dead. Sikhs were hauled from vehicles and killed on the roads; they were hacked to death on trains. About 3,000 Sikhs (the number is still in dispute) were murdered in nothing less than a pogrom, most of them in Delhi. In many neighborhoods, the police were nowhere to be seen. Almost as many Sikhs died in a few days in India in 1984 than all the deaths and disappearances in Chile during the 17-year military rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet between 1973 and 1990.' A great article.
(unknown) Ten commissions and committees have so far enquired into the 1984 Sikh genocide. Most like this one were miscarriages of justice.
(1987) A critique of the Misra Commission Report on Sikh genocide in November 1984.
(2005) An enquiry into the Sikh genocide of 1984 by hindus led by some members of the Congress party and the Indian governemnt.
(2005) An enquiry into the Sikh genocide of 1984 by hindus led by some members of the Congress party and the Indian governemnt.
(unknown) Ten commissions and committees have so far enquired into the 1984 Sikh genocide. Most like this one were miscarriages of justice.
(unknown) This book sets out, very clearly, why Khalistan is the only solution for Sikhs. A great book.
(unknown) The November 1984 Sikh genocide was systematic and had organized killings of Sikhs in 18 Indian States and more than 100 cities across India.
(2009) This is a copy of Letter Written by Amnesty International to US President Barack Obama regarding Sikh Massacre of November 1984.
(2009) Selected letters from the government of India providing compensation for victims of 1984 Sikh genocide.
(unknown) These words are addressed to all Sikhs and especially those who, like me, are professionals settled outside India. Members of this segemnt of our community have generally been apolitical and have been interested only in their own immeadiate families and their own personal and professional success.' A great article.
(unknown) Ten commissions and committees have so far enquired into the 1984 Sikh genocide. Most like this one were miscarriages of justice.
(1984) An article on June 1984 Sikh genocide and attack on the most holiest Sikh Gurdwara.
(unknown) This great article covers the untold story of the 1984 Sikh genocide.
(1984) A great short article on the 1984 Sikh genocide by Manushi and the call for a petition to the Supreme Court of India.
(1947) DiscoverSikhism.com found this information in the UK national archives. UK High Commissioner Terence Shone writing to the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 14 October 1947 about partition.
(1998) Written by a well known human rights activist, this book examines genocide of the Sikhs by India. A great book.
(2007) This 123-page report examines the challenges faced by victims and their relatives in pursuing legal avenues for accountability for the human rights abuses perpetrated during the government's counterinsurgency campaign in the Punjab. The report describes the impunity enjoyed by officials responsible for violations and the near total failure of India's judicial and state institutions, from the National Human Rights Commission to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to provide justice for victims families.
(1991) Since 1984, the security forces have adopted increasingly brutal methods to stem the Sikhs, resulting in widespread human rights violations. Countless civilians and suspected militants have been summarily executed in staged "encounter" killings or have "disappeared" while in police custody; thousands have been detained without trial and subjected to torture. The evidence Asia Watch gathered indicates that these abuses are not random but have been carried out as a matter of state policy.
(2005) This report represents the first public document detailing human rights violations committed by Indian security forces in the recent militancy-related arrests. Government officials have not publicly acknowledged, investigated, or redressed the violations. Thus, the majority of detainees whose experiences are discussed in this report remain in the custody of Indian security forces and continue to be at risk of custodial abuse.
(2003) "This report on disappearances in Punjab is the first published piece in a massive and on-going undertaking by a small group of very committed scholars and activists."
(1993) An analysis of Sangh parivar politics which allows hindus to commit crimes like Sikh genocide.
(2012) Generally speaking, right to self-determination means the right of a particular group of people to freely determine and control their political, economic or socio-cultural destinies. This has been denied to Sikhs by the racist policies of the Indian government.
(unknown) A short booklet which describes how Sikhs were and are liberators.
(1986) This paper provides an objective analysis of the religious, political, social and economic factors, which led to the sad and extremely tragic events in the Punjab. The paper concludes with a discussion of the aftermath of the destruction of the Sikhs' holiest shrine, the Akal Takhat, and the barbaric violence against Sikhs outside Punjab. The issues raised and discussed in this paper are fundamental for the understanding of the current situation facing the Sikhs in India.
(1985) The Citizens Commission that was set up for the purpose of probing the 1984 Sikh genocide consisted of people with impeccable 'establishment' background.
(2007) This important article contains the court summary and judgment papers in the case of State of India Vs Balwant Singh Rajoana (and others) where Beant Singh (chief minister) was killed. Beant Singh usurped the power after 1992 elections in the State of Punjab. Beant Singh was responsible for the indiscriminate atrocities against innocent Sikhs in the Punjab and countryside as also for the illegal arrests, tortures, during investigation and elimination of the detenees in fake encounters.
(1985) A short article on the 1984 elections and a 'ray of hope'.
(1986) After the Sikh genocide of 1984, during July 1985 a 'Punjab Accord' was signed by Harchand Singh Longowal and the Prime Minister of India, what happened to it? (with referecnes to Badal and Tohra). Small pamphlet publication. Guru Nanak Dev Mission Series.
(2009) A short booklet on the 1984 Sikh genocide by massviolence.org
(1858) A book on the uprising of 1857 in India.
(unknown) Although this presentation does not directly mention Sikhs, it applies to all humans and immeadiately exposes what has happened to Sikhs. A great article.
(1984) A weekly newsmagazine pulished in India during the 1984 Sikh genocide.
(2007) The Punjab Mass Cremations Case represents the best opportunity to challenge institutionalized impunity in India. Its ultimate resolution will set precedent in India on the redress of state-sponsored human rights violations.
(1985) This report was the first one to discern and declare categorically that the holocaust of November 1984 could hardly be described as a communal riot. The report showed that the killing were a one-sided affair in which Sikhs did not play an aggressive role at all.
(1984) The book: "They Massacre Sikhs - A report by Sikh Parliament SGPC" was published after the Nirankari massacred innocent Sikhs in Amritsar in 1978.
(1985) Three short article's on the 1984 Sikh genocide by Manushi.
(unknown) A spate of false propaganda, prejudiced reporting, distortions and one sided versions of the Punjab Problem have filled the columns of newspapers. As a result most people in India and abroad have not formed a correct assessment of the problem.'
(2006) Senior political party officials and police carefully orchestrated the Sikh massacres of November 1984. This great report focuses on the massacres organized against the Sikhs in Delhi; Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh; and Bokaro, Bihar. The documentary evidence focuses on these areas because the government-appointed commissions and committees that examined these massacres included only these areas in their terms of reference.
(1984) Proof that the British conspired with India to attack the most holiest of Sikh places of worship and commit Sikh genocide.
(1984) DiscoverSikhism found documents which exposed UK PM Margaret Thatcher's active position against Sikhs. UK Cabinet meetings show a hostile Sikh policy with no sympathy towards the many thousands massacred in Sikh Genocide. The 1984 Conservative Government gagged the media and banned legitimate Sikh protests. Democratic rights including the freedom of speech and the right to assemble were curtailed for Sikhs at the behest of a foreign government.
(1984) This report was one of the initial documents issued on 1984 genocide of Sikhs in Delhi and other parts of India in the month of November 1984.
(unknown) A great article reviewing human rights and Sikh genocide from 1984 onwards.
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