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.