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Ensaaf and Human Rights Watch Release Joint Report
"Protecting the Killers: A Policy of Impunity in Punjab, India"

 The Indian government must take concrete steps to hold accountable members of its security forces who killed, "disappeared," and tortured thousands of Sikhs during its counterinsurgency campaign in Punjab from 1984 to 1995, Ensaaf and Human Rights Watch said in a new report released on October 18, 2007. The 123-page report, "Protecting the Killers: A Policy of Impunity in Punjab, India," together with a photo essay and video testimonials, examines the challenges faced by victims and their relatives in pursuing legal avenues for accountability for the human rights abuses perpetrated by security forces. The report describes the near total failure of India's judicial and state institutions to provide justice for victims' families. In order to end the institutional defects that foster impunity in Punjab and elsewhere in the country, the government should take new legal and practical steps, including the establishment of a commission of inquiry, a special prosecutor's office, and an extensive reparations program.

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