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SIC Releases
Glorification & Demonization: Hindutva Regime’s Agenda
“Breaking Their Skulls”: Indian Army’s Atrocities Against Sikhs “Grenades and poisonous gas shells were thrown at the men, women, and children who had locked themselves in the rooms, bathrooms, and toilets of Guru Nanak Niwas, Guru Ram Das Serai, and Teja Singh Samundri Hall. Those who tried come out were […]
Kite Fights: New Report Questions Motive for Kabul Gurdwara Massacre
Regional proxy wars and Hindu nationalist agenda linked to slaughter of Sikhs (KABUL, June 16, 2020) The March 25, 2020 massacre of Sikh worshippers at Gurdwara Har Rai Sahib in Kabul, Afghanistan sent shockwaves through the global Sikh community, yet the violence was not the only shocking thing about the […]
Indian Consulates Lobby Against American Sikh Efforts to Recognize 1984
Sikh Genocide Resolution in Pennsylvania Reversed to Committee (HARRISBURG, November 19, 2018) Pennsylvania almost became the third U.S. state to recognize the 1984 Sikh Genocide. House Resolution 1160 resolution, an act “condemning the November 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide,” has mystifying been reversed back to committee after being […]
Indian Consulate Silenced by Protests at Guru Gobind Singh Seminar
“The Guru’s crown was salvaged from desecration,” remarks Singh after protest (LOS ANGELES, November 10) An all-day seminar claiming to honor Guru Gobind Singh at Loyola Marymount University was interrupted at the outset when a Singh raised his voice in protest as the event organizers attempted to place a turban […]
India Charges American Sikhs With Sedition For Attending Religious Summit
U.S. Sikhs call on Congress to “demand India stop bullying our American Sikh leaders” (AMRITSAR, November 17, 2015) After mass arrests of organizers and participants in a Sikh religious summit hosted in Punjab, India, authorities have filed sedition charges against several, including four American Sikhs. A North American Sikh summit […]
Indian Police Mass Arrest Sikh Media, Clergy, Politicians After Global Sikh Convocation
International Sikh community demands release of all, warning the Indian government wants control over their religion (AMRITSAR, Nov. 12, 2015) The preventative detention on Nov. 11 of several key Sikh leaders and a journalist by Indian police at the conclusion of a global convocation of Sikhs called “Sarbat Khalsa” is […]
U.S. Citizen Jailed in India Beaten at Court as Family in California Pleads for His Release
“Silence of the U.S. authorities is deafening,” says Sikh community of Ravinderjit Singh’s imprisonment (STOCKTON, April 13, 2015) Ravinderjit Singh Gogi, a U.S. citizen from Central California, has been jailed in Punjab, India since February 26, but despite repeated appeals from his family, local community leaders, and a human rights […]
Riverside Students Gathering in Honor of Murdered Activist Hear “Genocide in India Has Not Stopped”
Jaswant Singh Khalra’s work to expose genocide commemorated on 18th anniversary of his disappearance (RIVERSIDE, September 9, 2013) Over the weekend, students and families gathered at Gurdwara Sahib Riverside to hear Navkiran Kaur Khalra commemorate her father’s legacy alongside three more speakers at “Remembrance of the Disappeared” seminar. An emerging […]
U.S. Congress Urged to Blacklist Gujarat Chief Minister Modi for U.S. Travel
“Architects of genocide have no right to cross the borders of the United States,” say Sikhs (SACRAMENTO, August 10, 2013) Sikhs in Northern California launched a campaign on Friday seeking assistance from local congressional representatives in obtaining a U.S. visa denial for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, arguing that “architects […]