An SBS Dateline program on Punjab describes human rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalra’s discovery of the Punjab police’s use of secret cremations to hide evidence of extrajudicial executions. The clip includes an interview with human rights activist Ram Narayan Kumar. (Apr. 2002, Uploaded with permission from SBS.)
Further Resources:
- Khalra Advocacy Page
- Analysis of case in Ensaaf/Human Rights Watch report, Protecting the Killers: A Policy of Impunity in Punjab, India (Oct. 2007)
- Biography of Khalra: Chapter 1 of Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab (pdf) (May 2003)
- Case filed against KPS Gill for Role in Crimes against Khalra, Ensaaf (Sep. 2006)
- Khalra Criminal Case: High Court Upholds Convictions of Five Police Officers & Awards Life Sentences, Ensaaf (Oct. 2007)
