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Sikh `genocide' petition tabled in
Australian parliament
Friday November 02, 2012 11:50:40 AM,
IANS
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Canberra:
An Australian lawmaker has tabled in parliament a petition seeking
that the horrific violence that took place in November 1984 in
India following the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi
be recognised as genocide against the Sikh community.
At least 3,000 Sikhs were killed in three days in the Indian
capital New Delhi following the killing of Indira Gandhi on Oct
31, 1984 by her Sikh bodyguards.
Warren Enstch, the chief opposition whip for the Liberal Party,
Thursday tabled the 1984 Sikh "genocide" petition before the House
of Representatives. A number of Sikhs were present in the
parliament galleries when Enstch read the petition, said a press
release from the Supreme Council of Australia.
"It is important to note that today, Nov 1, is 28 years to the day
that these attacks took place," he said.
"And as long as they continue to be referred to as 'anti-Sikh
riots' there can be no closure for the Sikh community. Discussions
around mass violence and genocide will always be controversial but
the continued denial of such historical injustices can only
encourage modern day crimes against humanity."
The petition urged the Australian parliament to recognize that an
organised campaign of horrific violence took place against the
Sikh community in November 1984, and that these killings were
"genocide" as per the UN Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The petition argues that the "the intentional and deliberate
nature of the attacks on Sikh lives, properties and places of
worship during November 1984 makes them crime of `genocide'..."
Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), an international human rights group that
is lobbying to get the violence of November 1984 against Sikhs
recognized as "genocide", supported the tabling of the petition in
the parliament of Australia.
According to Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a human rights lawyer, SFJ
will now provide documents, witnesses and evidence related to
November 1984 Sikh genocide to the Australian ministry of foreign
affairs.
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