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Delhi riots

Delhi riots began from attack of blue star operation. This operation was a “code name given by the Indian government to an attack on golden temple”, which is Sikhs holiest place. This attack on Golden temple was ordered by the Indian government and Indira Gandhi herself because they wanted to arrest Bhinderanwale and his followers. The reason they wanted to arrest him was that he was becoming threat to India because of his popularity in India. He was demanding the rights of Sikhs as “One of the Indians constitution refused to recognize the Sikhs religion as a distinct and does not recognize Sikh marriages”.

There are many reasons why Indian government attacked Sikhs, they wanted to get rid of Sikhs. Also from starting Hindus had problems with Sikhs because when Indian government was writing an Indian constitution that Sikhs are Hindus with long hair but Sikhs refused to do so. “The Indian government broke all their promises and forgot all about the liberties the Sikhs had won for India”. Sikhs asked Nehru about the promise he made about the separate state for Sikhs called Punjab but Nehru refused.

The November 1984 killing in Delhi is one of the darkest periods in the history of indepen


Then there were many Sikhs killed outside Delhi, in many other parts of India. The New Delhi riots had repercussions in Punjab as militants stepped up their activities. Gandhi's son and political successor, Rajiv Gandhi, sought unsuccessfully to bring peace to Punjab with an accord signed with Harchand Singh Longowal, a moderate Sikh leader. Rajiv Gandhi's successors, belonging to the Janata factions, proved to be no more adept at resolving the crisis. Police spread false propaganda against Sikhs to raise the level of fear and hate against them.

Sikh places of worship were sought out to be destroyed and Sikh religious texts and literature, including the Adi Granth, holy book of the Sikhs, were defecated upon. The Sikhs in History by Sangat Singh and Misra Commission. Police not only stood aside and watched as people were killed, but actively participated in the looting and killing and also killed those Sikhs who were trying to defend themselves.

Many hundreds of Sikh families were destroyed, while the men were killed and the women gang raped. A pregnant woman was stabbed and a large number of Sikhs were made to pay to get themselves shaven or face death. The police drove around in jeeps equipped with loudspeakers not only spreading false propaganda, but also telling the Sikhs that they should go to their houses and

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