This summer, Ensaaf interviewed over 1,000 individuals - including hundreds of survivors - to capture stories of disappearances, unlawful killings, and torture in Amritsar during the Punjab counterinsurgency.
This ambitious achievement, which represents the largest deployment of human rights investigators in Punjab in over a decade, was only realized due to the financial support we received [...]
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Thank You Video Tribute & Special Appeal
November 19, 2009 – 10:10 AM
The Extrajudicial Killing of Kulwant Singh: “The boy was begging with folded hands.”
November 12, 2008 – 4:09 AM
This video includes testimony about how the Punjab police detained and beat an unarmed Sikh youth, pulled his hair and chased him as he begged for his life, and then shot him at point blank range on July 8, 1990 in Mohali, Punjab. Eyewitnesses describe how the police staged the body, placed a gun in [...]
Tarlochan Singh: A Mockery of Justice
October 26, 2008 – 3:54 AM
Tarlochan Singh describes his son Kulwinder Singh’s abduction by the Punjab police, and his 18-year continuing legal struggle for justice for Kulwinder Singh’s extrajudicial execution. (Oct. 2007)
Mohinder Singh: “What justice can we get from here?”
October 26, 2008 – 3:51 AM
Mohinder Singh discusses the abduction and murder of his son by the Punjab police and his pursuit of numerous avenues of justice. (Oct. 2007)
Rajvinder S. Bains: “This procedure has failed completely.”
October 26, 2008 – 3:45 AM
Rajvinder S. Bains, a human rights attorney in the Punjab & Haryana High Court for over 20 years, discusses his experiences with the High Court in cases filed on behalf of victims of disappearances or extrajudicial executions. (Oct. 2007)
Jaswant Singh Khalra: Last International Speech–The Struggle for Truth
October 26, 2008 – 3:31 AM
In his last speech (download available here) made to a Canadian audience, Jaswant Singh Khalra discusses his investigations into the thousands of illegal killings and secret cremations by the Punjab police and his readiness to die to expose the truth about these crimes. Jaswant Singh Khalra begins his speech with a moving fable about the [...]
Jaswant Singh Khalra: Abduction by Tarn Taran Police
October 26, 2008 – 3:19 AM
An SBS Dateline program on Punjab recounts how the Punjab police abducted human rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalra for his discovery of thousands of illegal killings and secret cremations by the Punjab police. (Apr. 2002, Uploaded with permission from SBS.)
Mrs. Khalra Reflects on her Fight for Justice
October 26, 2008 – 3:02 AM
In an SBS Dateline program on Punjab that aired in April 2002, Mrs. Khalra tells Geoff Parish about the hurdles she faces in her husband’s murder trial against Punjab policemen. (Apr. 2002, Uploaded with permission from SBS.)
Introduction to Gurcharan Singh and other Victim Families
October 24, 2008 – 1:37 AM
In an SBS Dateline program on Punjab, Geoff Parish focuses on a meeting called by human rights activists to gather evidence from survivors of the disappeared and killed. The clip includes interviews with Chaman Lal and Gurcharan Singh, whose sons were killed by the police. The police are threatening to kill Lal because of his [...]
Gurcharan Singh and his Desire for Justice
October 24, 2008 – 1:29 AM
In an SBS Dateline program on Punjab, Geoff Parish discusses the Punjab government’s offer of compensation to 17 families, with no investigation or admission of liability by the state, in the Punjab mass cremations case. Gurcharan Singh rejected this offer. (Apr. 2002, Uploaded with permission from SBS.)