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Worldwide Vigils for Justice for Anti Sikh
Pogroms Victims
WSN News
Over the past and forthcoming weeks, the Sikh community in different
parts of the world are gathering in city centers to remember those
killed during the massacre of the Pogroms which took place in Delhi
in November 1984 and protest for justice.
In the UK, candlelit vigils were organised by the Sikh Federation UK
and Young Sikhs in Derby, Birmingham, Leicester, Bristol, Leeds,
London, to name but a few places.
Candlelit vigils have also been organised across the world in New
York (outside the United Nations), Canada (many locations), Delhi
(outside the Parliament), Chandigarh (outside the Panjab Assembly),
Brussels (outside the European Parliament) and The Hague (outside
the Dutch Parliament).
In London, the Sikh Lobby of Parliament was organised on Thursday 2
November 2006 (2-4pm) to raise four issues: 22nd anniversary of the
November 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms; Census 2011; 5-point action plan
presented to MPs in September; discrimination against Bal Singh (See
separate story elsewhere in this issue of Amritsar Times).
Sikhs from Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Walsall, Leamington and
Coventry met at Chamberlain Square, Birmingham to organise the
vigil.
I felt like a refugee in my country. In fact, I felt like a Jew in
Nazi Germany. -- Khushwant Singh
Criminally led hoodlums killed Sikhs, looted or burnt homes and
properties while the police twiddled their thumbs. -- India Today,
November 15, 1984.
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