No surprise that the Indian channel CCN-IBN refers to the anti-Sikh pogroms as “riots,” but these TV interviews help to begin to understand the extent of human tragedy that resulted from the organized massacres of Sikhs
“Revisiting the 1984 Sikh riots”
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“The blackened, stiff corpses lay against the walls… with their eyes open. The burn victims were Sikhs, identifiable only by the steel bracelets worn on their wrists.”
(Washington Post, Nov. 3, 1984)
“Like being a Jew in Czarist Russia or Nazi Germany” Violence makes Sikhs fear for their future in India."
(New York Times, Nov. 11, 1984)
“When the history is written of the horrors that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the 32nd block of Trilokpuri Colony will be remembered as a place where civilization disintegrated."
(LA Times, Nov. 6, 1984)
