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Euro Parliamentary Motion on 1984
April 3, 2004 | Comments Off on Euro Parliamentary Motion on 1984
According to the UK-based 1984 Genocide Coalition, Green MEP Jean Lambert has initiated a motion in the European Parliament on the massacre of Sikhs during the events of 1984, particularly the Indian Army attack on the Golden Temple in June and the Sikh pogroms in November. The motion states:
The European Parliament notes with immense concern and alarm the carnage of 1984, in Panjaab and India, involving the deaths of tens of thousands of Sikh civilians. This Parliament notes the considerable number of reports from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, documenting widespread abuse of human rights of Sikh activists and Sikh civilians by the Indian authorities. This Parliament notes the report “1984 Sikhs’ Kristallnacht”, which documents information from a wide-range of sources about the events of 1984 (in Panjaab and India). This Parliament calls upon the European Union to study this report, and other human rights material from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. This Parliament supports the call for a Commission of Truth & Justice under the auspices of the UN to comprehensively investigate whether the slaughter to which Indian Sikhs were subjected to in 1984 constitutes genocide as defined in the Genocide Convention and the relevant international law.
The 1984 Genocide Coalition states that three House of Commons motions on 1984 have been signed by over 90 MPs so far.
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