| Title | 1984 ANTI-SIKH RIOTS |
| Date-wise Events | October 31, 1984:
The news about Indira Gandhi having been killed by her own
guards, who were sikhs, started spreading like wild fire. Rajiv
Gandhi and the President Zail Singh visited the AIIMS hospital.
Emotion filled, organized and well equipped gangs of ruffians
started setting out in different directions from AIIMS. The
violence towards Sikhs and destruction of Sikh properties
erupted. Rajiv Gandhi is sworn in as the Prime Minister. November 01, 1984: Armed mobs took over the streets of Delhi and launched a massacre. Among the first targets were Gurdwaras, the holy temples of Sikhs and the sikhs' residential houses and workplaces. November 02, 1984: Curfew was announced throughout Delhi, but was not effective. The Army was also deployed throughout Delhi too but it could not be effective in the absence of coordination and support of the local administration. So the rampage by the unruly mobs went on. November 03, 1984: Violence continued during the day. By late evening, the national Army and local police units succeeded in subdueing the violence. August 12, 2005: On this day, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the then Prime Minister of India, apologised in the Lok Sabha for 1984 anti-Sikh riots. |
| Description | These riots were a series of pogroms directed against Sikhs in India, by anti-Sikh mobs, in response to the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. According to reports, there were thousands of deaths of which about 3,000 were in Delhi only. |
