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30 years since 1984 anti-Sikh riots, we still need to learn lessons on political accountability Empty 30 years since 1984 anti-Sikh riots, we still need to learn lessons on political accountability

Post by confuzzled dude Thu Oct 30, 2014 9:01 pm

Today marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most infamous dates in modern Indian history, the day the Republic turned its back on an entire section of its people, abandoning them to genocidal mobs for four days of mass killing, rape, arson and loot.
The fact that Rajiv did not want the massacre probed or investigated and was happy to let the guilty walk tells us their monstrous crime must have had his approval. The judicial commission he set up under Ranganath Mishra was a farce; subsequent commissions and committees established to probe various aspects of November 1984, such as the complicity of police, were either ineffective or had their recommendations brazenly cast aside. Many of the politicians named by survivors and independent citizens’ inquiries all prospered in Rajiv’s time and later.
What India needs is reform that will make ministers and police officers legally liable for mass crimes like the communal killings of 1984 and 2002, or the ethnic cleansing of Pandits from Kashmir, which they fail to prevent despite being in a position to do so. The day police officers and politicians are jailed for standing by as innocent people are killed will be the day India can begin to exorcise the ghosts of November 1984.
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/when-a-big-tree-fell-thirty-years-since-1984-anti-sikh-riots-we-still-need-to-learn-lessons-on-political-accountability/

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