{"id":325,"date":"2004-06-07T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T20:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/06\/07\/british-mps-release-1984-report\/"},"modified":"2004-06-07T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T20:53:09","slug":"british-mps-release-1984-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/06\/07\/british-mps-release-1984-report\/","title":{"rendered":"British MPs release 1984 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a232'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">As Sikhs <A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/3780105.stm\">gathered<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> throughout the UK to remember the carnage of 1984, British MPs commemorated the 20th anniversary of Operation Bluestar last week by releasing a report by the Truth and Justice Campaign at the House of Commons.&nbsp; The report, titled 1984 Sikhs&#8217; Kristallnacht, gives eyewitness accounts and individual cases drawing from the 1984 Army attack on the Darbar Sahib complex in Amritsar and the pogroms against Sikhs.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">British campaigners also presented a petition signed by 10,000 individuals, calling for an independent Commission on Truth and Justice to inquire into the 1984 massacres.&nbsp; For more information, contact the 1984 Genocide Coalition at <\/FONT><A href=\"mailto:1984genocide@khalsa.com\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">1984genocide@khalsa.com<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The BBC has collected <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/06\/05#a231\">memories<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> from eyewitnesses and survivors of Operation Bluestar.&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Sikhs gathered throughout the UK to remember the carnage of 1984, British MPs commemorated the 20th anniversary of Operation Bluestar last week by releasing a report by the Truth and Justice Campaign at the House of Commons.&nbsp; The report, titled 1984 Sikhs&#8217; Kristallnacht, gives eyewitness accounts and individual cases drawing from the 1984 Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1472"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}