WhenA TreeShook Delhi

1984m assacre of 3000Si khs by Rajiv Gandhi’s

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Neha Seth
November 1, 2007
Thursday is the twenty-third anniversary of the anti-Sikh riots of
1984. Now a new book levels serious charges against top
Congress leaders implicated in the riots.

The book, When A Tree Shook Delhi, authored by journalist

Manoj Mitta and lawyer HS Phoolka will be released later this
week. November 1, 1984, a massacre began. Over 3,000 Sikhs
were hacked to death. But the police and the Government
looked the other way.

Commission after Commission whitewashes the guilt of the

accused. Now 23 years later a new book nails the guilty in
chilling detail. Among the accused –

Kamal Nath, now Union Minister for Commerce, he led the mob
outside Gurudwara Rakab Ganj, where two Sikhs were roasted
alive, in the immediate vicinity of the Lok sabha.

Amod Kanth (now Chief Vigilance officer, Delhi Jal Board)

abetted mass crime against a single Sikh by making a victim out
to be an aggressor.

Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler and Dharma Dass Shastri,

Congress leaders led mobs and forced the police to release
rioters.
Nikhil Kumar now Congress MP from Aurangabad, failed to
pass on information in time, said at the time, he was only a
guest artist and press fellows were exaggerating.

Author Mitta says, “Much worse than

Gujarat, right in the heart of the Capital, not
just mobs but influential congress leaders.
No justice till now.”
The Congress, ever ready to accuse the justice process in the
Gujarat riots, feels that justice has been done to the victims of
1984. Congress Spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi says,
“We have atoned, prime minister was apologised.”

Four hundred Sikhs were butchered here alone in Block 32 of

Trilokpuri, The killings were discovered by journalists.
According to the book, if they had not come here the police
would have kept the horrifying incidents at Trilokpuri a secret.

Approximately 1000 died in Gujarat, three

times that number perished in 1984.
So far only 13 have been punished.