What the records say
- When
- 31 Oct 1984
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 28.60° N, 77.21° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Assassination of Indira Gandhi.
Summary
Assassination of Indira Gandhi: Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her two Sikh security guards in New Delhi. Anti-Sikh riots break out, leaving 10,000 to 20,000 Sikhs dead in Delhi and surrounding areas with the majority populations of Hindus. Rajiv Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India.
2 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Assassinat d'Indira Gandhi, par ses gardes du corps sikhs”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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