1984 anti-Sikh riots: Lawyer of victims launches video series

The 12-part video series, Phoolka said, is disposable connected his YouTube channel. Eight different videos (in Hindi) volition beryllium released aboriginal this month, helium added.

“It has been 40 years contiguous waiting for justness and lone 12 execution cases (related to the riots) person ended successful conviction,” helium said.

Referring to the caller Lady of Justice statue without a blindfold connected her eyes, helium said that the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots were denied justice.

However, praising Delhi’s media, helium said they played a large relation successful keeping live the contented of justness for the victims.

Victims of the riots besides addressed the property conference.

Sharing her experience, Darshan Kaur said, “While sitting successful our location successful Trilokpuri, we came to cognize successful the evening (October 31, 1984) that Indira Gandhi had been assassinated. The adjacent time radical came successful a tempo with bottles, and swords and attacked the houses of Sikhs.

“My brother-in-law was thrown retired of the location and killed… I had a 15-day-old girl successful my lap. In the evening, a person came successful a achromatic car and the rioters gathered astir him. He told the assemblage to termination sardars (Sikhs)… Then, they bushed up my hubby and burnt him alive.”

As per authorities estimates, 2,733 Sikhs were killed successful Delhi unsocial during the 1984 riots.