There are striking similarities between the killing of Sikhs in 1984 and of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002. To name a few: 1. The ruling governments at the time – Congress in Delhi and Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat – had declared both massacres to be “spontaneous” reactions of Hindus to the preceding triggers. 2. In closed-door meetings held immediately after the triggering events, both parties elected to give a free reign to attackers for three days to systematically target minority households, Sikhs in the case of the Congress and Muslims in the case of the BJP. 3. The police...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
