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1984 Pogroms: AISSF decides to
file PILs in High Courts
WSN Network
NEW DELHI:
Holding placards and with tyres slung around their necks as a mark
of protest, members of the All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF)
took out a march in India's capital last Sunday, demanding justice
for the victims of 1984 anti-Sikh massacre.
The AISSF
activists and some victim families, who marched from Gurdwara Bangla
Sahib to Jantar Mantar observatory built in 1710, off the posh
shopping district of Connaught Place here, also demanded that the
Parliament acknowledge the riots "as a genocide of Sikhs".
They raised
slogans demanding "justice and punishment to those who perpetrated
the anti-Sikh violence 25 years ago," in which some 4,000 Sikhs were
killed in the capital and other cities.
"Thousands of
Sikhs were massacred in 110 cities in a systematic and organised
manner, and justice has not only been delayed, but it has been
denied," AISSF president Karnail Singh Peermohammed said.
Peermohammed
said the AISSF would file PILs in high courts of the states "where
massacres occurred" to demand that shut cases against police
officers and politicians accused in the riots be reopened.
The AISSF will
file a PIL in the Supreme Court, asking it to take cognisance of the
"fact that the government had failed to protect the life, liberty
and property of Sikhs".
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November 2009
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