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Twenty-five years ago, in the wake of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, members of the police and Congress (I) Party perpetrated mass murder against Sikhs in New Delhi, as well as cities throughout the country.

A Preliminary Quantitative Analysis FAQs

This report analyzes reported fatal violence across Punjab during a period of conflict from 1984 to 1995. This preliminary, descriptive statistical analysis by Ensaaf and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) at Benetech uses systematic and verifiable quantitative research to interrogate the Indian government's portrayal of the Punjab counterinsurgency as a successful campaign with isolated human rights violations.

The report by Ensaaf and HRDAG, “Violent Deaths and Enforced Disappearances During the Counterinsurgency in Punjab, India,” presents empirical findings suggesting that the intensification of counterinsurgency operations in Punjab in the early 1990s was accompanied by a shift in state violence from targeted lethal human rights violations to systematic enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions, accompanied by mass “illegal cremations.” Indian security officials have dismissed claims of human rights violations as unavoidable “aberrations” during the counterinsurgency against alleged terrorists in Punjab from 1984 to 1995.

Re: Submission by Ensaaf regarding India for the Universal Periodic Review session scheduled April 2008.

India: Time to Deliver Justice for Atrocities in Punjab Investigate and Prosecute Perpetrators of 'Disappearances' and Killings

RE: General Allegations and Individual Case Submissions on Enforced Disappearances in Punjab, India

The November 1984 Pogroms of Sikhs in India

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - High Court Petition to Investigate and Prosecute Gill for Murder of Khalra

International Legal Arguments - High Court Petition to Investigate and Prosecute Gill for Murder of Khalra

Re: Disappearance of Human Rights Attorney Sukhwinder Singh Bhatti (India)

Joint Letter to Director, Central Bureau of Investigation, calling for prosecution of KPS Gill for murder of Jaswant Singh Khalra

Summary of Order Convicting Six Punjab Policemen in Khalra’s Abduction and Murder

In May and June 2005, Ensaaf organized the Physicians for Human Rights and the Bellevue/NYU School of Medicine Program for Survivors of Torture to conduct a study of 127 families who survived the disappearance of a family member in Amritsar, Punjab.

Punjab Police: Fabricating Terrorism Through Illegal Detention and Torture