Welcoming Canada's Ontario Assembly's decision to treat the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as a “genocide", Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday said the…
Sukhbir Singh Badal (PHOTO: Facebook)
Welcoming Canada's Ontario Assembly's decision to treat the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as a “genocide", Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday said the widespread massacre of Sikhs in Delhi and some other parts of the country in November 1984 was “most certainly a genocide of the community in vast numbers.”
Reacting to the Ontario parliament’s decision to treat the 1984 massacre as a “genocide”, Badal said, “We are indeed grateful to the authorities and the people of Ontario for this very touching gesture of compassion and solidarity. They have called this shameful chapter by its right name and they deserve our thanks. Every Indian, except those guilty of this tragedy, regards it as a genocide,” said Badal in a statement.
The former deputy chief minister also requested the Government of India to formally acknowledge this shameful massacre of Sikhs as “a brutal genocide.”“There is no doubt about this in anyone’s mind that the Congress planned and executed a genocide of the Sikhs in 1984. Senior leaders of that party holding top positions in the government of India actively facilitated, directed and even participated in this gruesome genocide. Orders for this genocide had come from the very top in the government," the SAD president said.
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The entire world was shocked when the then Prime Minister (PM) Rajiv Gandhi publicly justified this inhuman genocide as “a natural reaction to the falling of a big tree (Indira Gandhi’s assassination). Another PM Manmohan Singh later had to apologise for this to the nation, said Badal.
The Ontario Assembly on Thursday has passed a motion that recognises the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India that killed over 2,500 people, as genocide. It was moved by Harinder Malhi, an MP from Brampton-Springdale district.
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