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WASHINGTON, April 12 (PTI) The California State Legislature has passed a resolution urging the US Congress to formally recognize and condemn the 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide.
The resolution was Introduced by assembly Member Jasmeet Kaur Bains, first-ever elected Sikh member of state assembly, on March 22, and was passed unanimously by the State Assembly on Monday.
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It was co-sponsored by Member of Parliament Carlos Villapudua. Only fellow Hindu member Ash Kalra also voted in favour.
Noting that the Sikh community in the United States has yet to recover from the physical and psychological trauma of the riots, the resolution urges the United States Congress to formally recognize and condemn the anti-Sikh violence of November 1984 as genocide.
“Widows’ colonies” in New Delhi still house Sikh women who were beaten, raped, tortured and forced to witness the mutilation, burning and murder of their families, and they are still calling for justice for the perpetrators, the resolution said.
In a statement, Pritpal Singh, coordinator of the American Sikh Caucus and other Sikh groups in the United States, thanked members of the California Assembly for proposing and passing the resolution.
In 2015, the California Legislature also passed a resolution characterizing anti-Sikh violence as pograms.
Violence erupted in Delhi and other parts of the country after former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984.
More than 3,000 Sikhs were killed across India in the ensuing violence, mostly in the nation’s capital.
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