In June 1984, the Indian Army attacked Harmandir Sahib, popularly known as the Golden Temple, as well as 41 other gurudwaras (Sikh places of worship) throughout Punjab. The assault, codenamed “Operation Blue Star,” marked the beginning of a policy of gross human rights violations in Punjab that continues to have profound implications for the rule [...]
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Photo Essay: New Statistical Analysis Points To Widespread Human Rights Violations
January 26, 2009 – 3:54 AM
Ensaaf and the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group released a photo essay in accompaniment to their joint report, Violent Deaths and Enforced Disappearances During the Counterinsurgency in Punjab, India. This report uses quantitative methods to scientifically demonstrate the implausibility that these lethal human rights violations are random or minor aberrations as suggested by Indian [...]
Police Denials: KPS Gill, former Director General of Police
October 26, 2008 – 4:37 AM
In an SBS Dateline program on Punjab, Geoff Parish challenges former police chief KPS Gill about the secret cremations documented to have occurred when he was police chief of Punjab. The secret cremations have been confirmed in the Punjab mass cremations case proceeding before India’s National Human Rights Commission. (Apr. 2002, Uploaded with permission from [...]
Navkiran Kaur Khalra: “We are proud of what our father did.”
October 26, 2008 – 3:38 AM
Navkiran Kaur Khalra, daughter of murdered human rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalra, recounts her family’s struggle for justice and her father’s discovery of thousands of killings and secret cremations by the Punjab police to hide evidence of wrongdoing. (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.)
Jaswant Singh Khalra: Investigations into Illegal Cremations
October 26, 2008 – 3:11 AM
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.)
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.)
Police Denials: Sarabjit Singh, former Police Chief
October 24, 2008 – 1:19 AM
In an SBS Dateline program on Punjab, former Director General of Police Sarabjit Singh tells Geoff Parish that without a dead body, there can be no crime of murder, thus allowing the police to evade justice by destroying evidence of their crimes through secret cremations and other methods. (Apr. 2002, Uploaded with permission from SBS)