UK Parliament Member Sardar Jas Athwal, Council Leader Kam Roy, CLR. Sunny Brar, CLR Nav Kaur Johal, etc. paid their respects today during the opening ceremony at Valentine Park, Ilford, by placing a memorial plaque in their memory, expressing sympathy with the families of those killed in the November 1984 Sikh massacre.
The assembled people told investigators, courts and leading politicians of India that we recognize November 1984 as genocide because the Delhi High Court’s decision declared the massacre of Sikhs a ‘crime against humanity’. The Supreme Court of India in its evidence cited the genocide of Jews by the Nazis as genocide, and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) equated it to the 1984 Sikh massacre. India’s PM Narendra Modi said that the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 was a ‘big, terrible genocide’ and the massacre of 1984 is a ‘stain’ which will not be forgotten even after 50 generations.
Speaking to the media on behalf of the Sikh Federation UK, Bhai Dabinderjit Singh, the chief adviser of the federation, said that the Labor government had promised the Sikhs that when we form the government, we will not hesitate to investigate the Sikh massacres in India as a priority. Now their government has been formed in the UK and it is their duty to fulfill the promise made to the Sikhs by making this work a priority.