Impact and Legacy
“It seemed easy for Rajiv Gandhi to say, ‘When a giant tree falls, the earth below shakes.’ Our trees fell and we can still feel the tremors.” -Victim whose husband was burned alive during the pogroms
The attack on the Sikh community in India is remembered annually in the UK with a remembrance march through London bringing together thousands of Sikhs from all over the UK. The Sikh Pogroms are cited as a reason to support creation of a Sikh homeland in India, often called Khalistan.
Many ordinary Indians of different religious dispositions made significant efforts to hide and help Sikh families during the rioting.
Recently on 15 July 2010 the Sikh high clergy (Jathedar) declared the events following the death of Indira Gandhi to be a Sikh "Genocide" replacing the widely used term "Anti-Sikh riots" used by the Indian government, media and other writers. The decision came soon after a similar motion was raised in the Canadian Parliament by a Sikh MP.
Read more about this topic: 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots
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