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Indira Gandhi's assassination

Looking back in shame – Delhi cops remember assassination aftermath

By Joydeep Gupta • Nov 3rd, 2009
Indira Gandhi

New Delhi, Nov 3, Three days, 3,000 Sikhs – days that still haunt Delhi Police officials who admit their failures and even complicity but even 25 years later will not go on record on the pogrom that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi when marauders had a free run of the city.



‘21 male family members were killed within hours’

By Mayank Aggarwal • Nov 2nd, 2009
Manjeet Kaur

New Delhi, Nov 2,She was 20 then, happily married for two years. But Manjeet Kaur’s world came to be covered in blood the night of Nov 1, 1984 when her husband along with 20 other men in the family were butchered right outside their homes in the mindless anti-Sikh violence.



A nowhere trail of commissions and blatant omissions

By Murali Krishnan • Oct 31st, 2009
Indira Gandhi

New Delhi, Oct 31, Two commissions, eight committees and 25 years later, the truth behind the 1984 riots, when over 3,000 Sikhs in the national capital were massacred by organised mobs that trawled the streets for almost four days, has been wilfully buried by the political machinery.



‘Father didn’t kill Indira Gandhi to make Sikhs happy’

By ians • Oct 31st, 2009

Chandigarh, Oct 31, Twenty-five years after Beant Singh emptied his revolver into then prime minister Indira Gandhi, the assassin’s son says his father didn’t do it to appease anyone in the Sikh community but wanted to personally avenge the army’s Operation Bluestar.