The 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots in India

They were also arrested. (Auerbach 1688) That's all it took for this riot to come into play, a few people unhappy about the way the police handled the situation. The next thing you know its a few thousand unhappy people.

The human rights which were violated were: right to life, liberty, personal security; freedom from torture and degrading treatment; right from interference with privacy, family; and right to adequate living standard. The right to life was violated by the Indian Army in many instances, one being when “Sikh youth were lined up against a wall..and killed with a machine gun.”(Dogra). The liberty and personal security of Sikh people was disregarded during the riots as the police did not stop Hindu mobs from looting, destroying Sikh households and murdering Sikh people. Sikh people in India were even stacked and burnt, once again, the police had their eyes closed. The right to adequate living standard was breached by the Indian government because it offered the victims of the riots horrible housing in poverty ridden communities, and atrocious pension. According to Michael Hamlyn, a reporter for “The Times”, reporters were taken from their hotels and dropped in nearby towns and left without any assistance, also, transport going in and out of the main Punjab towns was banned. This media blackout kept the Indian government mostly safe from accusations regarding human rights violations because there was little to no footage and testimonial

Disputes over land seem to be a catalyst for almost every hostility and war since the dawn of time. The addition of politics and religion into the matter only serves to aggravate an already tense situation. Kashmir knows this all too well. The conflict between Hindus and Muslims seems to be an ever reoccurring battle. This is also evidenced in population battles. Hindus make up the social majority of the population of India by almost eighty percent. Feelings of tension and uneasiness are a natural reaction to being dominated by a majority and are a problem unto itself.

The second day (Thursday, April 30, 1992) of rioting, the storekeepers did not stay put, but fought back to protect their shops. News channels televised store owners fighting back with arms and other weapons to protect what was theirs. Their attempts were

Between the 6th and 11th of August 2011 thousands of people rioted in cities across England participating in looting, arson and vandalism. The rioting occurred after a peaceful demonstration on the 4th of August in Tottenham over the death of local 29-year-old father of four Mark Duggan who was a victim of a still-unresolved shooting by the police.

The government should take strict measure against them. (add citation). He said despite promising before independence to improve the treatment of Sikhs and give them their own country. The government proceeded to utterly destroy the state of Punjab. Due to the partition Punjab was ruined both economically and socially. Instead of receiving even the minimal amount of government help, Sikhs began facing economical, social, religious discrimination. Punjab's agriculture industry was completely broken by the central government. Farmers faced unjustly higher taxes on their produce and had lower selling prices forced on their crops. the central government even went as far to banning selling their produce in other states because that would give them higher prices for their labour. Even the electricity produced in Punjab by dams in Punjab was not given to them, majority of it was diverted to neighbouring states and the small amounts given to them still cost more, a problem that still exists today. In addition to this seventy five percent of the water available in Punjab is given to other states. Also seventy percent of revenues produced by the people of Punjab to improve their states was given sent to other states, less than one percent of that revenue is used for the development of Punjab. the investment was the lowest in all of India, yet Punjab is also the state with the highest taxes. Soon Sikhs faced restrictions if they wanted to join the armed forces,

(Document 5) This shows that even though Britain gave education to Indians they only gave it to who could afford it and hardly anyone could. Lalvani claims that over the 200 year span of British imperialism, India’s religions felt safer and less discriminated against. ( According to Dr.Lalvani) Although the British thought this was true it actually was not. Christians were mocking and discriminating against Muslims and Hindus. (Gandhi) Similarly Hinduism believes in nonviolence so when the protest at Amritsar took place the Indians were brutally slaughtered while being unarmed. (Gandhi) Because of their non-violence beliefs the Hindus had no defense and were killed by what they thought was their

Koreatown was not the first ones to be attacked by riots. Florence and Normandie Avenues were the first riots police officers had to deal with. The news always on cameras on the riots for every hour of rioting. Families would watch as the attacks on the avenues increased against police and stores. Rioters run around the streets destroyed cars and harming people as well. The rioters would retreat, but came

On April 28, 1992, several riots erupted throughout Los Angeles, California due to the unjust trial when several officers were caught on video brutally beating Mr. Rodney King on the street. Thousands of African-Americans were unhappy with the decision of the court allowing the four officers to get off with no charges. During the LA Riots, over 55 people were killed, 2,000 were injured, and 7,000 were put into police custody. It was nearly $1 billion in damages done to property and 4,000 buildings in the city were burned. The three days of the LA Riots will be remembered in history because of the police brutality, national reaction to the violence, and the people's

On April 29th the day of the verdict, there were reporters both inside and outside the court room. This would add to how wide spread the unrest would occur and how fast it would develop. The verdict had come out that all four police officers were found not guilty on all accounts except for one account on one officer in which it was ruled a mistrial on that account.4 With the large amount of media coverage and the anticipation of a guilty verdict by many of the local citizens, the disturbances and violence spread quickly .

4 police men all but one charge connected to a severe beating because the man was in a high speed pursuit ,but then he stopped and got caught.So now the cops all but one got a charge for beating the african american motorist in march 1991.A result of 50 people were killed,more than 2,300 people were injured and about thousands were arrested on that night in the riot.About 1,100 buildings ended up being wrecked.The cost for the buildings was about 1 billion dollars for the damage that people had done to the buildings.It was the most devastating riots in american history.And still is to this day.There was a lot of damage in the riot.White police force practiced racial profiling and engaged in racist

During his final years, Gandhi walked from town to town where Hindus were being murdered in retaliation for the killings of Muslims of Bihar. The massacres and fighting ended because of

During the riot, the first fire started at a shoe store on 12th. Officers were starting to line up with shields standing next to each other to block the rioting from spreading any further. There were authorities having a meeting to try and stop the riot. They were trying to make peace patrols but the police officers were blocking them from entering the area of the riot. The police officers were still trying to take control of the situation but their officers were being injured and the rioters started to outnumber them by a lot. As the police officers were giving up the firefighters were putting out fires. There were new fires starting as fast as they were being put out.

The decision to engage in terrorism can occur for many reasons: logical choice, political strategy, ennui with the elite, and lack of opportunity for political participation. Air India flight 182 was a flight operating on from Montreal-India. On 23 June 1985, the airplane operating on the route was blown up in midair by a bomb in Irish airspace in the single deadliest terrorist attack involving an aircraft to that date. Two men were known to have left two pieces of luggage for check in, but never boarded the flight. The incident represents the largest mass murder in modern Canadian history. 329 civilians died on the flight, over 270 Canadians. The bombing was the joint project of at least two Sikh terrorist groups with extensive membership in Canada, USA, England and India. Their anger had been sparked by an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest Sikh shrine in Amritsar in June 1984. Sikh militants were seen preaching that "Indian planes will fall from the sky" and urging his followers to "kill 50,000 Hindus." (Sikh extremism enters mainstream Canadian politics, 2007).

An event that has relation to war today is the tension in the northern region of India, Punjab, where the Sikh holy book was ripped up and thrown. Many Sikhs gathered in a peaceful protest, trying to bring to justice the people who were responsible, but the police ended up shooting and killing two peaceful protestors. Simran Jeet Singh, is one of the authors, who writes on this topic. He takes up this topic, because it represents part of the unjust that happened to Sikhs in 1984 where they were killed and murdered in the thousands by the Indian government. Singh says, “I was born in the United States in the summer of 1984, during the height of the anti- Sikh violence in Punjab” (Singh 1). He goes on to say how he feels the pain of his Sikh brothers and sisters who were killed in the year 1984, for their religious beliefs. Background about Singh shows us the importance of mediated narratives, as they show that Singh is trying to raise awareness about the issues going on in Punjab in an attempt to try to avoid the destruction that happened in 1984. Another one of these authors is Nirmala Ganapathy, who is part of The Straits Times. She takes up the same interest as Singh, as she works to raise awareness on the issues affecting her homeland of India. She writes about why Sikhs have been blocking major roads in India and the influence this has. Her curiosity is what has