Community Organizing & Education
We educate the general public and organize survivors to advocate for their rights to truth, justice, and reparations.
Updates
View our photo essay on Operation Blue Star, containing images from the assault and eyewitness accounts.
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Notable Achievements
- Five Officers Convicted. Ensaaf provided key litigation support in the conviction of 5 officers for Jaswant Singh Khalra's abduction and murder.
- International Experts Engaged. Ensaaf partnered with the Nobel-prize winning organization Physicians for Human Rights on a torture and trauma study.
- Recognized as a Ground-breaking Organization. Ensaaf Co-Founders received the Echoing Green fellowship award in 2006.
Extrajudicial Killing of Kulwant Singh
This video, based on footage shot in 1990, includes eyewitness testimony describing the extrajudicial killing of Kulwant Singh. This testimony highlights traits common to other cases, such as how the police killed an unarmed youth and staged the body.
25th Anniversary of November 1984 Pogroms
On November 2, Ensaaf launched an ad campaign in the San Francisco Bay Area's metro system, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the November 1984 pogroms of Sikhs in India. On the same day, the Mercury News also published Ensaaf's op-ed discussing the anniversary of the pogroms and its continuing impact on Sikhs. Earlier in the week, TIME magazine published an article on November 1984, featuring quotes from Ensaaf's Co-Director. That article reached #1 on TIME's Most Emailed list.
Multimedia
Ensaaf's multimedia platform brings together Ensaaf videos, photo essays, and podcasts. The videos draw from raw footage shot during the period of abuses, as well as contemporary interviews with survivors. Learn more about these videos, photo essays, and podcasts, comment on them, and share them with your friends through our platform.
Presentations & Conferences
Ensaaf makes several presentations a year at conferences and academic workshops. Most recently, Ensaaf presented at November 1984 anniversary events commemorating the 25th anniversary of the pogroms of Sikhs in India, such as the Sikh Art and Film festival (hosted by Sikhlens) where Ensaaf received the Heritage Award.
Newsletter
Ensaaf's quarterly newsletter Dispatch provides updates on litigation, developments in Punjab human rights issues, as well as news about Ensaaf.