23.05.2005 - Source: BBC News

Delhi: 1 person killed and at least 49 injured in blasts at 2 cinemas showing a film criticised by Sikh leaders for denigrating their faith; another person was injured in explosion that followed the cinema blasts ("Fresh blast rocks Indian capital") [#32183],  [ID 6626]

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13.01.2005 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Annual report on human rights situation in 2004 ("World report 2005") [#28211],  [ID 6627]

"[...] The Congress Party itself has failed to provide any justice to the victims of serious abuses against the Sikh community in Delhi and Punjab twenty years ago. [...]
2004 marked the twentieth anniversary of Operation Blue Star, a focal point in the conflict between Sikh nationalists and state security apparatus in the Punjab in the 1980s; and the anti-Sikh riots in New Delhi, which resulted in more than three thousand Sikh deaths. In July, the National Human Rights Commission called for claims in cases of summary execution in Punjab. The assignment of individual criminal responsibility for those and other crimes committed during the period, however, remains elusive. Also in July, the Nanavati Commission of inquiry served former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, who was home minister in the Congress Party government in 1984, a notice for his failure to act to prevent the attacks on Sikhs. Two others who have similarly been served notices have recently been appointed ministers in the new Congress government. [...]"

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22.05.2004 - Source: BBC News

Manmohan Singh, a Sikh, has been sworn in as prime minister to lead the Congress Party's coalition government ("India swears in its first Sikh PM") [#22594],  [ID 6628]

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14.03.2003 - Source: Amnesty International

Davinder Pal Singh Bhuller sentenced to death after being found guilty of involvement in the 1993 bombing of the Youth Congress Office in New Delhi/ there are serious concerns that he may not have been given a fair trial ("India - UA 21/03") [#11465],  [ID 6629]

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21.01.2003 - Source: Amnesty International

UA 21/2003 ("UA 21/2003") [#10973],  [ID 6630]

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2002 - Source: Harvard Human Rights Journal

Report on the disappearance of Sikhs in Punjab on hand of the police ("A Judicial Blackout: Judicial Impunity for Disappearances in Punjab, India") [#21835],  [ID 6631]

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14.09.2001 - Source: Federal Foreign Office (Germany)

Stellungnahme v. 14.09.01 an VG Leipzig ("Stellungnahme v. 14.09.01 an VG Leipzig") [#4367],  [ID 6632]

"Zu den Fragen über Sprachkenntnisse der Sikhs ist folgendes anzumerken: Sikhs sprechen normalerweise Punjabi als Muttersprache und zusätzlich Englisch. Die Beherrschung von Hindi kommt durchaus vor. In Chandigarh ist die Schulsprache Hindi. Daher ist es nicht ungewöhnlich, wenn Sikhs, die dort zur Schule gehen, in Hindi schreiben können, die Schriftsprache des Punjabi (Gurmukhi) aber nicht beherrschen."

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