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www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionWhen a Genocide is perpetrated, It is usually by one or a small group of Individuals e.g. Kings / Government leaders for their personal gains. This was the case for genocides of the Sikhs (Need a quote by reputable author to substantiate this claim, otherwise it counts as just an opinion).World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgA Sikhwww.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America Region

The Sikh beliefs:Always remember The One, the Creator who pervades every part of Creation.Be truthful in your daily conductWork for your living. Share your blessings with others.See The One in everyone and protect The Ones/everyones dignity.

World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgSikhs stand for justice and dignity

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionSikhs have always protected everyones dignity and stood against oppression regardless of faith. The ninth Sikh living Guru, took a stand against forced conversion of the Hindu population and sacrificed his life for this principle (freedom to practice ones faith) even though he absolutely did not believe in the teachings of his ideological opponents (Hindus).World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgIndira Gandhi

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America Region(Perhaps better use TADA here) In 1984 Indira Gandhi the then Prime Minister of India, planned and initiated a genocide of Sikhs that continued through 1998 and beyond. This was a result of the Sikh opposition, which resulted in mass peaceful protests, to the forced sterilizations and other oppressive policies during Indira Gandhis Emergency Rule from 1975 to1978. Thereafter Sikhs became targets of Indira Gandhi, her son Rajiv Gandhi, and then of Narshimha Rao - Prime Ministers of India in succession.

World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgSikh Genocide Phase 1Indian army attacked Sikh Religious Centers across Punjab (June 5, 1984) on the day of heaviest attendance.www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe first phase of the Genocide started with the army attack on over 40 historic Gurdwaras across Punjab on the same day with over 700,000 soldiers cordoning off the state from the eyes of the outside world.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgHarmandar Sahib Amritsar (Darbar Sahib)

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionFirst target was the Darbar Sahib Amritsar, erroneously known to Western world as Golden Temple, considered as Vatican of the Sikhs.

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www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe date of the attack was carefully selected to cause maximum damage. It was the martyrdom anniversary of the fifth Sikh Guru when the attendance at the Gurdwaras - especially the Darbar Sahib Amritsar (Golden Temple) was the highest. The complex can accommodate more than 25,000 people.

This picture shows a typical crowd in front of the Akal Takht that lead to Darbar Sahib, (Golden Temple) AmritsarWorld Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgAkal Takht Sahib

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe crowds in front of the Akal Takht Sahib, a building in the Harmandar Sahib (Golden Temple) complex.

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www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe Indian Army was deployed in large numbers. The attack was meant to be brutal, killing everyone in sight. These Indian Army posts around the Darbar Sahib complex were erected well before the June 1984 attack.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgHeavy Artillery Attacks

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America Region Heavy artillery, tanks and helicopter gunships was used to demolish and burn the complex, especially blowing up the Akal Takht the seat of Sikh Sovereignty, killing everyone inside.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgDevastation in progress

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe surrounding buildings within and outside the Harmandar Sahib complex were reduced to rubble. All these buildings were historic.The picture is of Nishan Sahib next to Akal Takht Sahib.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgThe devastation

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe structural damage to Sri Akal Takht, was viewed by Sikhs when they were allowed to go back in the complex a few weeks later July 1984.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgSoldiers around the Sikhs they killed

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe army attack resulted in mass murder of the Sikhs while visiting their place of prayer/worship.In this picture army men are seen dragging the dead bodies (see person in the distance dragging a body by the foot), while others are stealing from the dead.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgThe Killing Continued for 4 days??

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe dead bodies were lined up in the corridors of the entire complex. Due to the Government blackout this may be the only available picture of the mass killings during those four days. The number of killed in these attacks are estimated to be in tens of thousands. There were over 20,000 pairs of shoes unclaimed at Harmandar Sahib.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.org2nd PhaseOPERATION WOOD ROSEwww.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionAfter mass killings at the Gurdwaras in the four day operation, the army moved to the villages of Punjab, where most of the rural population was Sikh.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgThe Sikhs were rounded up from their homes and from shops

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionDuring this phase, code named Operation Wood Rose. Any initiated Sikh was considered Terrorist and the Sikhs were rounded up from their home and businesses and taken away without any charge under the draconian POTO and TADA laws.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgCaution The next six slides are very graphic in nature. However, the Sikh collective feels that these need to be shared with the world so that the extent of the atrocities can be properly communicated. www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionWorld Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgTortured to death after interrogation

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionSikhs were brought into the interrogation centers, tortured, and finally killed. Picture of Avtar Singh Chatrana with his son looking at his murdered father by the Indian regime.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgBoiled in cauldrons of water as part of Interrogation.

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThis Sikh was boiled in large cauldron full of water as part of interrogation till his body burst.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgEntire families Tortured to death after interrogation

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionEntire families murdered with their women and children by claiming them as terrorists. One of the rare occasions dead bodies were handed over to the relatives..World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgA three year old terrorist?Killed in police custody

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionEven a three year old boy was a target of the same state terrorism. See his left arm tortured and crushed and his nipple has been cut off.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgAfter tortureKilled in fake encounters

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionDue to complaints of large numbers of Sikhs killed in police custody, the killings were moved to the fields. Thousands of Sikhs were killed and thrown into canals, never to be seen again. Pakistan government complained on several occasions about thousands of dead bodies showing up on the other side of the border as all the rivers and canals flow from the East to West.

World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgBodies collected to be hauled off in dumpsters

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe bodies were collected from the police stations and hauled to dumpsters for cremation with no records whatsoever. World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgTotal Numbers ???Mr. Jaswant Singh Khalra, a human rights worker, reported that 25000 bodies of the Sikhs, classified as unidentified, were cremated in just three cremation sites in a single district (Amritsar) in just two years.This is in addition to the bodies that were identified and the ones thrown into the canals.For this report, Mr. Khalra was later abducted by the DG.KPS Gill, tortured, was then killed by tying each leg to two different Jeeps and driving in different directions by police. www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionWorld Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgPlan for ethnic cleansingIndira Gandhi had planned a nationwide ethnic cleansing of the Sikhs - code named Operation Shanti for the first week of November 1984www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionDr. Sangat Singh, the onetime director of strategic planning in the intelligence and disinformation office of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has categorically stated in his book, Sikhs in History that Indira Gandhi had a plan to eradicate Sikhs all over India code named Operation Shanti.The Sikh military sources claim that Mrs. Indira Gandhi had planned to start a war with Pakistan that would start at the Punjab border. The first step would be to slowly withdraw Indian forces back from the Punjab border so that the Pakistani forces would devastate the area when they advance into Punjab while Indian forces through mass aerial bombardment decimate the rural Sikh population of Punjab, destroying what was still left. This process would have assured complete destruction of all people in Punjab. The evidence indicates that Indian forces were sent to the Pakistan Border in the early days of October 1984. The Indian government has never ever challenged this statement and Dr. Sangat Singh still lives in New Delhi.

World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgIndira Gandhi Shot

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionTwo of Indira Gandhis body guards, who were Sikhs saved millions of Sikhs from total annihilation shot and killed her. This did scale down size of the planned Genocide of the Sikhs, even though it did not stop it, rather prolonged it over nearly two decades. The Jews tried to assassinate Hitler 19 times because of similar crimes but were unsuccessful.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgThe 3rd PhaseThe Plan Activated

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe shooting of Indira Gandhi was taken as a Sikh revolt and the plan to eliminate Sikhs from all over India was activated.The pre-planning is evident from the way it was executed. Trained Hindu Terrorists were distributed metal rods, kerosene, and were guided by the political leaders of Indira Gandhis partyWorld Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgThe targets, selected from lists burning

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe leaders with government procured lists of all Sikh homes and businesses. And the way the Hindu Terrorists Groups were then called off.The police had been told not to interfere. So in vast majority of cases simply stood by, looked the other way and went out of the way to disarm Sikhs with licensed weapons and/or preemptively arrest them.

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www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe Sikh places of business and their homes were set on fire in hundreds of major Indian cities..World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgSikh homes set on fire

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe Sikh homes were burnt by Hindu Terrorists sent by Indira Gandhis son Rajiv Gandhi sworn in a Prime Minister even before she was cremated. He publicly stated, when a big tree falls the earth will shake to justify the mass murder of Sikhs.

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www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionNothing was spared while the Hindu Terrorists actively participated egged on by Hindu politicians in power.

World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgGurdwara Sahib attacked, caretaker beaten up,even the Sikh holy book was set on fire

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionGurdwara Sahibs attacked, caretakers were beaten up and killed, while Sri Guru Granth Sahib (the Sikh holy scripture) was burnt and desecrated.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgSikh pulled from public transportation and beaten to death

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionThe Sikhs were pulled out of trains and buses, physically beaten or burnt to death by dousing them in flammable material like kerosene, phosphorus, and then burning them with tires.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgDead bodies on luggage carts

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionUnattended Sikh dead bodies lying for days at a train station while passersby keep walking.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgCAUTION Be aware that next four slides are very graphic in nature. However, the Sikh collective feels that they need to be shared so that the extent of the atrocities can be properly communicated. www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionIt is my responsibility to make your aware that next few slides are might be considered graphic in nature by some. However Sikhs feel that they are World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgAll Sikh males from the homes pulled out and set on firewww.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America Region

A young Sikh boy is doused with kerosene oil and set on fire.. World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgSikh Males beaten up and then burnt alive

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionAnother Sikh male pulled out of his home, beaten up, doused with kerosene and set on fire by Hindu Terrorists. There are dozens of photographs like these. Sikh Females were left alive to be gang raped and enslaved for menial tasks around the housesWorld Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgNot an isolated case

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionSikh males were all killed, no one was left even to take care of burnt bodies. No dignity in death while dogs eat the burnt flesh.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgNot an isolated case

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America Region90 Sikhs boiled in oil and then burnt to death and finally thrown in a public restroom.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.org

Mass Grave site, HOND-CHILLER

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionA complete village population was killed and houses destroyed. The Police reports were either not recorded or destroyed. A mass grave of entire village killed was discovered in village Hond Chiller after 26 years - 2011.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.org

Gurdwara Gian Godri (before demolition)

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionIn Hardwar, a holy city of Hindu faith, a historic Gurdwara building associated with Guru Nanaks visit was demolished, and the land grabbed by neighbors and local politicians. World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.org

Total Sikh lives lost

Dr. Sangat Singh, Director of Indias strategic studies at ministry of defense, Author of the book, Sikhs in History, estimates the total number of Sikhs killed from 1984 to 1998 to be 1 to 1.2 Million.www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionWorld Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.orgSikhs waiting for Justice

www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionSikhs have been pursuing all possible peaceful ways to seek Justice within Indian judicial system, but have not seen any action by the government. It has been 30 long years of legal battles and not a single person has been charged. In fact the government officials involved in the Genocide have been promoted to higher positions and the politicians have been reelected and nominated to positions of higher power.

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WHAT CAN THE SIKHS DO?

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Your suggestions are welcome

World Sikh Council America Region thanks you for your time.www.thirdsikhgenocide.org World Sikh Council - America RegionSo after thirty years of continued efforts, the question still remains, What can Sikhs do to get Justice?

Your comments are highly valuable to the Sikhs.World Sikh Council - America Regionwww.thirdsikhgenocide.org