What the records say
- When
- 31 Oct 1984 – 3 Nov 1984
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 2,800
- Coordinates
- 30.77° N, 75.47° E
- Description
- anti-Sikh riots in India
1984 anti-Sikh riots
Series of organised pogroms in India
The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also known as the 1984 Sikh massacre, were a series of organised pogroms against Sikhs in India following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. Government estimates were that about 2,800 Sikhs were killed in Delhi and 3,350 nationwide, whilst other sources estimate the number of deaths at about 8,000–17,000.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Anti-Sikh mass murder takes place in Delhi and various parts of India following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Inde : Indira Gandhi est assassinée par ses gardes du corps sikhs”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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