Expressing disappointment at the clean chit given to the Congress leaders in the government’s action taken report on Nanavati Commission report, an association working for the 1984 riot victims today demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on moral grounds. “There is no hope of justice left and we have lost all faith in the government. We were denied justice 21 years back and no justice has been given now… Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should immediately resign on moral grounds,” All India Riot Victims Relief Committee president Kuldeep Singh Bhogal said. The Sikh forum, which has been working for the rehabilitation of riot victims, said, “if the Commission report had used the phrase ‘very probably’ for Jagdish Tytler’s involvement, the government could have at least ordered an enquiry into it.” “But then for this Tytler would have to resign… The Congress has tried to shield its leaders through the ATR,” said Wg Cdr R S Chatwal of the Sikh Forum
“The report is highly disappointing. After over 20 years of fight, we realised that this country is not governed by the rule of law,” said advocate H S Phulka, who represented the victims before the Nanavati Commission. “The ATR has again shown that Congress is anti-Sikh. You can easily kill 3000 people of a community and get away with it,” said Akali Dal (Badal) MP Sukhbir Badal. “We have asked for a debate in Parliament tomorrow. On August 13-14, we are having a general body meeting of the Akali Dal where further course of action would be finalised,” he said.
where im the article it says it is a hindu mob..and who blames hindus for inciting the violence..it is a party which is indicted. The nationalist hindu parties support the sikhs in this issue.
For three days, mobs of Hindus went from house to house in Sikh neighborhoods across northern India, dragging people into the streets and murdering them. Sikhs are easily identified: Sikh men wear turbans and virtually all have the name Singh, while Sikh women are named Kaur. “They pulled out our men, beat them, torched them and killed them, and all of them are still roaming free,” said Nirmal Kaur, 52, whose husband was killed in the riots. “If no justice was to be delivered, why did the government keep us in darkness for 21 years?”
***The Asian Age summed the mood up in a front-page headline that simply said: “Mother of All Cover-Ups.” Newspapers are already talking about the need for something along the lines of South Africa’s post-apartheid truth and reconciliation commission to unravel the truth and heal the wounds. ***
Attacking and killing the civilians is the most cowardly act. Hindus are guilty of such crime and must accept the blame.
No design theory, no justification, no excuses via religious texts is granted.
***Gandhi’s assassination was in revenge for her sending the army to evict Sikh separatists from Sikhism’s holiest site, the Golden Temple, in Punjab state. The government says 2,733 people were slain in reprisal for her killing, but Sikhs say the toll was at least 4,000. ***
If sikhs want him removed, they can try voting him out. That’s how it works in democracy, a concept you are unfamiliar with.
Sikhs compromise 2% of population and have a “real” PM (unlike pakisatani PMs :D) ruling the majority, what can be better revenge/justice than that?!?! Sikhs are the ** most ** patriotic sons of India, sacrificing and kicking enemies ass (ask your army, if you do not believe :D) ) whenever neccesary. ** sat sri akal **
NEW DELHI: Victims of India’s 1984 anti-Sikh riots rejected yesterday apologies from Premier Manmohan Singh and vowed to intensify demands for the prosecution of politicians blamed for the massacre that claimed 4,000 lives. On Thursday, Singh, the country’s first Sikh prime minister, apologised in parliament for the riots after a commission inquiry report said some Congress party leaders may have helped incite the riots. “What took place in 1984 is a negation of what is enshrined in our (secular) constitution and on behalf of government, people of this country, I bow my head in shame for what has happened,” Singh told MPs.
But Sikhs said yesterday they were unimpressed by the apology tendered by the Congress prime minister whose party was in power at the time of the riots and which Sikhs blame for the bloodshed. “Will his apologies return my husband and my four brothers who were burnt alive?” screamed Sheila Kaur as dozens of Sikhs protesters torched effigies of riot-tainted politicians and tyres near parliament in New Delhi. Dalip Singh, president of the All India 1984 Riot Victims’ Association, said the forum would step up its struggle for “justice.” “The prime minister has apologised under (political) pressure.
It also means nothing for those people who have had no homes or jobs since the dark days of 1984,” Singh said. Singh’s apology came after a junior minister named in the report, Jagdish Tytler, quit after the probe found he “very probably” helped organise the riots. Another Congress MP, Sajjan Kumar, also linked by the report to the riots, quit as chairman of the state-run Delhi Rural Development Board. Both men have denied any involvement in the carnage. The report tabled on Monday in parliament created a political uproar with the opposition and the government’s leftist allies demanding legal action. “These resignations are a charade and we demand these two men quit their seats in parliament and the prime minister charge all those named by the commission with murder,” said Dalip Singh. The government has said it will take “all possible steps” to reopen cases against people named in the report “within the ambit of law.” Another Sikh widow questioned the value of an apology given after 21 years. “They dragged my husband and my three brothers and even as they begged for their lives, the mob set them on fire, beat them with rods and killed them,” said Kaushalya Kaur. “Apologies after 21 years? It’s so meaningless.”
Yes there is no sense of apology after 21 years. It is not for the first time that the centre has deceived Sikhs.
The centre of India was even more torturous towards them in mid centuries. Muslim rulres killed many Sikh gurus and burried their minor sons in walls alive.
Manmohan Sing must apologise for that too, but off course no use...so many years have passed.
it's not democracy when u r forced to vote for someone by ur 'feudal land lords'. these land lords are the ones who are more connected with the radical hindu fundementalists in the country. more than half of the population of INDIA lives in rural areas working on other people's land. and as far as i know, this sikh PM was not 'elected', it was that italian indian woman (something ghandi) who was voted to be PM. the only reason india is the largest democracy (something u guyz like to boast about all the time) is because, it has the largest population in south asia.
feudalism exist in only some part of the India.. but actually in all these parts its not the feudal landlords who vield power but the peasents (Read UP and Bihar).They have mostly realize their potential and fight for their rights.
U contradict ur own statement when u say that an Italian catholic Gandhi can appoint a Sikh as prime minister. If it was a hindu feudalistic society then u can never even dream of having that. Is that possible in pakistan that sikh being a prime minster even appointed by a catholic or a Hindu for egs.
Besides buddy its not we who bragg about the wonder about democracy. Ask ur own state where u live and they would say so.
Despite the Prime Minister’s apology, BJP today took exception to the “silence being maintained” by Congress President Sonia Gandhi on the Nanavati Commission report and demanded that she too apologise to the nation for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. “With the Prime Minister’s apology, the resignation of the Ministers and the virtual withdrawal of Action Taken Report, it has been proved that Congress was fully involved in the riots but it is surprising that Sonia Gandhi did not consider it appropriate to utter even a word,”
BJP Parliamentary Party spokesman V K Malhotra told reporters here. Recalling the Congress Chief’s sit-in in front of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue in the Parliament House complex after the Gujarat riots, he said, “her silence on the anti-Sikh riots even five days after the tabling of the Action Taken Report is baffling.” He also wanted the Congress to tell the nation as to why after approving the ATR, the Government changed its stand and virtually withdrew it and secured the resignation of the people indicted in the report. “We would like to know who wanted to save the Minister initially and why it was later decided to re-examine the cases”, he said.
