1984 Sikh Massacre: Explained

On November 19, 1984, when Rajiv Gandhi made the statement that `when a big tree falls, the earth shakes’, he said, it was first time that the Prime Minister was addressing the nation after the massacre. “But instead of saying that it was very sad that so many people have been killed and assuring that the guilty will be punished, he made this statement which justified the macabre incidents and sent a straight message to the state machinery that the tree has fallen, 7000-8000 Sikhs died because of it, so just let it be.”
The Wire explains the 1984 Sikh massacre that happened 34 years ago and how the failure to deliver justice and punish the guilty of 1984 paved the way for the killings of Gujarat in 2002.
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