European Parliament Motion On The Massacre Of Sikhs During The Events Of 1984

Green MEP Jean Lambert has initiated a motion in the European Parliament on the massacre of Sikhs during the events of 1984, particularly the Indian Army attack on the Golden Temple in June and the Sikh pogroms in November. The motion states:

The European Parliament notes with immense concern and alarm the carnage of 1984, in Panjab and India, involving the deaths of tens of thousands of Sikh civilians. This Parliament notes the considerable number of reports from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, documenting widespread abuse of human rights of Sikh activists and Sikh civilians by the Indian authorities. This Parliament notes the report "1984 Sikhs' Kristallnacht", which documents information from a wide-range of sources about the events of 1984 (in Panjab and India). This Parliament calls upon the European Union to study this report, and other human rights material from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. This Parliament supports the call for a Commission of Truth & Justice under the auspices of the UN to comprehensively investigate whether the slaughter to which Indian Sikhs were subjected to in 1984 constitutes genocide as defined in the Genocide Convention and the relevant international law.