Dal Khalsa to or­gan­ise Sikh Geno­cide Re­mem­brance March at Bathinda on 1 No­vem­ber to protest anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984 across In­dia.

Am­rit­sar- Call­ing it 33 years of pain, mis­ery, in­jus­tice, hope and re­mem­brance, the Dal Khalsa will hold ‘Sikh Geno­cide Re­mem­brance March’ at Bathinda on Nov 1 to com­mem­o­rate the mass killings of Sikhs through­out In­dia in Nov 1984.

Brief­ing the me­dia, party gen­eral sec­re­tary Paramjit Singh said the march would high­light the role of the then In­dian gov­ern­ment in plan­ning the pogrom ex­e­cuted through mas­querad­ing mobs of lumpen el­e­ments with full sup­port of the po­lice and the Con­gress lead­er­ship.

One thing is clear, the car­nage started af­ter Ra­jiv Gandhi was sworn in as Prime Min­is­ter of In­dia on 31 Oct along with his four col­leagues in­clud­ing P V Narasima Rao. Both as a coun­try’s top ex­ec­u­tive along with Con­gress lead­er­ship had a tac­ti­cal role in the car­nage”, said the party leader.

He said the march will be­gin from Gur­d­wara Haji Rat­tan and cul­mi­nate at Gur­d­wara in­side Qila Mubarak where trib­utes will be paid to vic­tims of mind­less vi­o­lence.

In­dia and its me­dia re­fuses to ac­knowl­edge the killings of of­fi­cially 2733 and un­of­fi­cially 8000 as car­nage or a geno­ci­dal pogrom and have re­duced it in writ­ing and oral par­lance as a “riot” be­tween the Sikhs and oth­ers. If a mass killing of more than 3000 peo­ple of one par­tic­u­lar com­mu­nity is not geno­ci­dal, then what it is? asked party sec­re­tary for po­lit­i­cal af­fairs, Kan­warpal Singh.

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Re­fer­ring to the pass­ing of a mo­tion in the Canada’s On­tario state as­sem­bly call­ing the mass killings of Sikhs in 1984 as ‘geno­cide’, he said the world com­mu­nity has grad­u­ally started ac­knowl­edg­ing the role of the In­dian state in en­gi­neer­ing the car­nage.  He re­it­er­ated that 1984 events have taught the Sikhs to fol­low the path of free­dom and seek right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion.