GENEVA : Thousands of Sikhs from across the globe rallied Friday at the UN's Geneva base, demanding an international investigation of a deadly wave of violence against their community in India in 1984. Sikh activists say the killings 29 years ago were state-sponsored genocide, while India blames them on communal rioting. Organisers told AFP they had mustered 10,000 Sikhs from Europe, North America, India, Hong Kong and Australia, while police put the figure at 4,000. Earlier Friday, members of the New York-based group Sikhs for Justice submitted what they said was a million-signature petition to the UN human rights office, where they held talks with officials. “The reason we are petitioning the UN to investigate the killing of Sikhs in November 1984 is that we believe the truth has not been told to the world,”Canadian-born Jatinder Singh Grewal, policy director at Sikhs For Justice, told AFP. “What happened in November 1984 was a systematic and deliberate attempt t...
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