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Canada Sikhs remember 1984 victims
WSN Network
VANCOUVER: Sikhs
in Metro Vancouver recalled the 1984 state-sponsored massacre that
witnessed hundreds of Sikhs being burnt alive on the roads of
India's national capital Delhi in peace times. Local Sikhs here
organized ardas, film showings, candle light vigils and blood
donation camps. “Since the victims of the massacre have not been
given justice, we decided to bring their voices out,” Harpreet Kaur,
the maker of a documentary, The Widow Colony, told an audience that
gathered to see her film last week at the Surrey Arts Club.
Parvkar Singh
Dulley, a young Sikh activist, was among the local organizers
sponsoring the film show based on interviews with the widows of the
anti-Sikh pogroms.
A key witness of
1984 massacres, Jasbir Singh, whose existence was questioned by the
CBI at one stage in an effort to give a clean chit to Jagdish Tytler,
also addressed the audience at the Gurdwara Dashmesh Durbar in
Surrey.
Jasbir Singh witnessed Tytler, a Congress MP and a former minister
of India, leading mobs during those dark days in
Delhi.
He said he was ready to testify before the CBI.
The gurdwara
also organized a candle light vigil that attracted many despite
heavy rain and chilly weather. Also part of the rememberance
activities were a number of blood donation camps throughout B.C.
12 November
2008
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