CHANDIGARH: Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh, who visited Hondh Chillar village in Rewari district — the site of November-1984 Sikhs massacre — on Thursday, declared that the PM Manmohan Singh and AICC President Sonia Gandhi should visit the place, if they had any feelings for the victims of the crime against Sikhs.
The Jathedar was apparently moved by the ruins of the abandoned village and said that it appeared as if the Sikhs were "still living like slaves in a free country`` since the perpetrators of the crime were roaming free even after 26 years of having committed it.
"Till the time, the guilty are not punished, Sikhs would continue to suffer the agony of the massacres,`` he told mediapersons at the site.
In Amritsar, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) urged the Prime Minister to hold a detailed and time-bound investigation into the massacre. The Akal Takht Jathedar has also asked the All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) and Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) to look for similar incidents in places like Bokaro and Kanpur where Sikhs were targeted in 1984 but not many details could emerge "just like the Hondh village``.
The Jathedar was apparently moved by the ruins of the abandoned village and said that it appeared as if the Sikhs were "still living like slaves in a free country`` since the perpetrators of the crime were roaming free even after 26 years of having committed it.
"Till the time, the guilty are not punished, Sikhs would continue to suffer the agony of the massacres,`` he told mediapersons at the site.
In Amritsar, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) urged the Prime Minister to hold a detailed and time-bound investigation into the massacre. The Akal Takht Jathedar has also asked the All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) and Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) to look for similar incidents in places like Bokaro and Kanpur where Sikhs were targeted in 1984 but not many details could emerge "just like the Hondh village``.
With thanks : Times of India : link above for detailed news.
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