Info & Resources
- Watch/Listen
- Backgrounders
- Articles, Letters & Briefs
- Reports: Human Rights Watch
- Reports: Amnesty International
- Reports: US State Department
- Reports: Other
- UN Documents
- General: Human Rights in India
- Legal Research
Watch/Listen
Protecting the Killers: A Policy of Impunity in Punjab, India
- Tarlochan Singh: video, transcript
- Mohinder Singh: video, transcript
- Rajvinder S. Bains: video, transcript
- Navkiran Kaur Khalra: video, transcript
Jaswant Singh Khalra's Last International Speech: Watch
Who Killed the Sikhs? (SBS Dateline, Australia): Transcript
The following clips have been uploaded with permission from SBS. Media Player is needed to view the interviews. It can be downloaded for free from Microsoft.
Five Minute Post-Mortem: The Chief Medical Officer of a hospital in Amritsar district describes the post mortem process for bodies of victims of extrajudicial executions or custodial deaths. Download (File size: 1.54 MB/0.56 minutes).
The Disappearance of Jaswant Singh Khalra:
- Abduction by Tarn Taran Police (File Size: 1.69MB /1.01 minutes)
- Early Investigations into Illegal Cremations (File Size: 2.15MB /1.18 minutes)
- Mrs. Khalra's Interview (File Size: 745KB/ 0.26 minutes)
The Disappearance of Kulwinder Singh:
- Abduction by Police (File Size: 2.22MB /1.01 minutes)
- Police Extortion (File Size: 3.16 MB/1.55 minutes)
- Impact on Father (File Size: 3.31MB /2.01 minutes)
- Kulwinder Singh's Wife (File Size: 1.05MB /0.38 minutes)
Families of the Disappeared:
- Introduction to Gurcharan Singh and Other Victim Families (File Size: 3.15MB /1.55 minutes)
- Gurcharan Singh and His Desire for Justice (File Size: 1.54MB /0.56 minutes)
Police Denials:
- K.P.S. Gill, former Director General of Punjab Police (File Size: 3.15MB /1.55 minutes)
- Sarabjit Singh, former Director General of Punjab Police (File Size: 1.77MB /1.04 minutes)
Backgrounders
- Context of the Violations
- Chronology
- Punjab Mass Cremations
- Bhalla Commission of Inquiry
- Jaswant Singh Khalra
- People's Commission on Human Rights
Articles, Letters & Briefs
- Submission to the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (November 2007)
- Submission to UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (Ensaaf, REDRESS, CHRGJ) (November 2007)
- Injustice Cost Votes in Punjab Polls, by Jasmine Marwaha and Meenakshi Ganguly (February 2007)
- International Legal Arguments: High Court Petition to Investigate and Prosecute Gill for Murder of Khalra (September 2006)
- Executive Summary: High Court Petition to Investigate and Prosecute Gill for Murder of Khalra (September 2006)
- Communication to Special Representative on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders (Disappearance of Human Rights Attorney Sukhwinder Singh Bhatti) (May 2006)
- Joint Letter to Director, Central Bureau of Investigation, calling for prosecution of KPS Gill for murder of Jaswant Singh Khalra (Ensaaf, HRW, REDRESS, CHRGJ) (May 2006)
- Open Letter to Chief Minister of Punjab on International Human Rights Day (Dec. 2005)
- Summary of Order Convicting Six Punjab Policemen in Khalra's Abduction and Murder (November 2005)
- CHRGJ Letter to The Hon. Dr Condoleeza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, International and Domestic Law Standards Governing Applications for Relief from Extradition Under the Convention Against Torture (case of Kulvir Singh Barapind) (Sept. 2005) (pdf, 1.6 MB)
- The "Disappeared" and the Disappearance of Justice in India (Ensaaf, HRW, and NYU CHRGJ Joint Letter to Congressional Human Rights Caucus) (September 2005)
- The Legacy of India's Counter-Terrorism, Jaskaran Kaur, Boston Globe
- Twenty Years Later: Recent Reports Highlight the Continuing Struggle for Sikh Human Rights, Jasmine Marwaha, Harvard Human Rights Journal (Spring 2005)
- India's Sikhs: Waiting for Justice, Barbara Crossette, World Policy Journal (Summer 2004) (PDF)
- Amicus Brief by Harvard Law Student Advocates and Human Rights Watch (Dec. 2003)
- REDRESS, Letter to Chief Constable and Press Release, Indo-UK police conference (Sept. 2003)
- A Judicial Blackout: Judicial Impunity for Disappearances in Punjab, India, Jaskaran Kaur, Harvard Human Rights Journal (Spring 2002)
- Police Torture in Punjab, India: An Extended Survey, Ami Laws and Vincent Iacopino, Health and Human Rights
Reports: Human Rights Watch
- Protecting the Killers: A Policy of Impunity in Punjab, India (Ensaaf and Human Rights Watch, October 2007)
- Injustice Cost Votes in Punjab Polls, by Jasmine Marwaha and Meenakshi Ganguly
- India: Don't Torture Sikh Activist Extradited by U.S. (Kulvir Singh Barapind)
- India: Draconian Response to Naxalite Violence (References KPS Gill)
- Letter to National Human Rights Commission on Mass Cremations Case
- Other Screams of Terror, by Meenakshi Ganguly
- Dead End in Punjab, by Brad Adams
- India: Prosecute Killers of Sikhs (1984 Pogroms)
- Brief to Indian National Human Rights Commission (with HLS Advocates) (pdf)
- Dead Silence: The Legacy of Abuses in Punjab (with PHR) (pdf)
- Punjab in Crisis: Human Rights in India (pdf)
- India: Justice Eludes Families of the “Disappeared” in Punjab
Reports: Amnesty International
Reports
- Break the Cycle of Impunity and Torture in Punjab, January 2003 (PDF) English | Punjabi
- A Trial of Unlawful Killings in Jammu and Kashmir: Chithisinghpora and its Aftermath, June 2000 (pdf)
- Defending Human Rights in India, April 2000
- A Vital Opportunity to End Impunity in Punjab, August 1999
- A Mockery of Justice: The “disappearance” of Jaswant Singh Khalra, April 1998
- Harjit Singh: In Continuing Pursuit of Justice, January 1996
- Determining the Fate of the “Disappeared” in Punjab, October 1995
- Punjab Police: Beyond the Bounds of the Law, April 1995
- Harjit Singh: A Case Study of “Disappearance" and Impunity, March 1995
- Reaction to the Government Response to Amnesty International's Report on “Disappearances” and Impunity in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, June 1994
- “An unnatural fate”: Disappearances and Impunity in the Indian States of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, December 1993
- Three Reports of Deaths in Custody and "Disappearances" in Punjab, March 1993
- Human Rights Violations in Punjab: Use and Abuse of the Law, May 1991
Public Statements
- India: Victims of anti-Sikh riots face further delays, August 2005
- India: Punjab - Twenty years on impunity continues, October 2004
- AI membership expresses solidarity to the families of the disappeared in Punjab, February 2003
- India: Day of the “disappeared”—still no justice for the victims, August 2001
- Proposed amnesty for security personnel must be rejected, August 2001
- State continues to obstruct justice in Punjab, April 2001
- Arrest of witness points to continuing police harassment, September 2000
- Will past human rights violations in Punjab remain forgotten? August 1999
Reports: US State Department
- 2007 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: India
- 2006 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: India
- 2005 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: India
- 2004 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: India (Read Ensaaf’s blog post)
- 2003 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: India
- 2002 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: India
- 2001 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: India
- 2000 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: India
- 1999 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: India
- 1998 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: India
- 1997 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: India
- 1996 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: India
- 1995 India Human Rights Practices
- 1994 India Human Rights Practices
- 1993 India Human Rights Practices
Reports: Other
- Protecting the Killers: A Policy of Impunity in Punjab, India (Ensaaf and Human Rights Watch, October 2007)
- The Punjab Mass Cremations Case: India Burning the Rule of Law (Ensaaf, January 2007)
- Physicians for Human Rights and Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture Report Submitted to National Human Rights Commission
- Punjab Police: Fabricating Terrorism through Illegal Detention and Torture (June 2005 to August 2005)
- Twenty Years of Impunity: The November 1984 Pogroms of Sikhs in India
- Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab
UN Documents on Punjab
- Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions
- Special Rapporteur on the Question of Torture
- Special Representative on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders
- Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
- Human Rights Committee
General: Human Rights in India
- Human Rights Watch Documents on India
- Amnesty International Library
- South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre Report
Legal Research
- Indian Bare Acts: Access to the acts in force in India
- Judgment Information System (Judis): Databases of judgments from the Supreme Court of India and various High Courts
- Law Commission of India: Information and announcements of the Law Commission of India, responsible for evaluating and recommending revisions to Indian laws
- India Code: Provides links to legislation and bills
