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Twenty years after the Indian Army attacked the Harmandir Sahib complex in Amritsar, and looted and destroyed the Sikh Reference Library, the historic texts have not been returned.  After recently convening a meeting with the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), the Central government has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to trace these texts: […]

A controversy erupted this week over the Nanavati Commission’s stance towards Sajjan Kumar, an MP who has been cited repeatedly by survivors and eyewitnesses as a major perpetrator and organizer of the 1984 pogroms of Sikhs.  First, at the last hearing of the Nanavati Commission, MP and Union Minister Jagdish Tytler, Vasant Sathe, and Kamal […]

In his affidavit before the Nanavati Commission, also investigating the 1984 pogroms of Sikhs in India, then Lt. Gov PG Gavai blamed Rajiv Gandhi’s government for delaying the deployment of the Army, thus allowing the massacres to continue without interference: P G Gavai has blamed the Rajiv Gandhi government for the delay in calling in […]

The Nanavati Commission, investigating the 1984 pogroms of Sikhs, scheduled its last hearing for August 27.  Senior Congress leaders Kamal Nath (currently Commerce and Industry Minister), Jagdish Tytler (currently MP and Minister of State for NRI Affairs) and Vasant Sathe have decided not to cross-examine witnesses who deposed against them, leading to their Section 8B […]

Retired New York Times reporter Barbara Crossette has published an article in this summer’s issue of the World Policy Journal titled India’s Sikhs: Waiting for Justice.  In this article, Crossette explores the problems leading to impunity for perpetrators of human rights violations against Sikhs, from the November 1984 pogroms to the decade of disappearances in […]

The central government extended the term of the Nanavati Commission’s inquiry into the 1984 pogroms against Sikhs.  The Commission’s term was set to expire on August 2, 2004, but was extended for the seventh time.  It will now function until November 2, 2004. Last week, the Gujarat government also extended the scope of the Nanavati […]

A new film called Kaya Taran (Chrysallis), based on a Malayam short story called When Big Trees Fall, uses memories of the 1984 Sikh pogroms to reflect on the 2002 Gujarat pogroms against Muslims: Shifting through past and present, the tale follows the lives of Preet (Angad Bedi), a Delhi reporter working on a story […]

The Delhi High Court has allowed the appeal by the Central Bureau of Investigation against the acquittal of MP Sajjan Kumar in the last case against him, arising from the November 1984 pogroms against Sikhs The Court had earlier criticized the CBI for failing to file the appeal in a timely manner: On April 6, […]

The November ’84 Carnage Justice Committee issued a release today about the Nanavati Commission’s steps against Former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao for his role as Home Minister in the massacres of Sikhs during November 1984.  Similar to steps taken against Ministers Jagdish Tytler and Kamal Nath, the Committee has issued a Section 8B notice against […]

Jagdish Tytler, the current Minister of State for NRI Affairs, may not stay long in this position.  Witnesses and survivors of the 1984 pogroms of Sikhs have consistently named Tytler as one of the organizers and perpetrators of the massacres.  The Nanavati Commission investigating the massacres has also issued a Section 8B notice against Tytler, […]

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