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Brand New Book. Book Description Hardcover. Special order direct from the distributor. Seller Inventory ING This shocking expose of a true-life Orwellian plot of nightmarish proportions reveals the chilling events of November following Indira Gandhi s assassination and the cover-up by the Indian Government.
For over three days, armed mobs systematically butchered, torched and raped members of the Sikh community in Delhi and other places, unchecked. In Delhi alone 3, people were killed. Thirty-three years on, the full extent of what took place has yet to be fully acknowledged. Based on victim testimonies and official accounts, this book exposes how the largest mass crime against humanity in India s modern history was perpetrated by politicians and covered up with the help of the police, judiciary and media.
A book that posits fundamental questions, it will shake you to the core. Book Description Hardback. Language: English. Brand new Book. Based on victim testimonies and official accounts, this book exposes how the largest mass crime against humanity in India's modern history was perpetrated by politicians and covered up with the help of the police, judiciary and media. But to a woman who did not object to having bodyguards from a hugely resentful and vengeful community in the wake of Operation Blue Star, what Beant Singh and Satwant Singh did was nothing short of unspeakable treachery.
A trust was violated and the nation paid its price. Today the cries of revenge have died down but not all the pleas for justice. In fact, this is not a new theory, as Singh admits, first floated by human rights activist Amiya Rao in December That in itself is enough evidence that both Congress and the Sikhs have moved forward from the calamitous consequences of Captain Amarinder Singh, the former maharajah of Patiala, who had resigned his parliamentary seat and membership of Congress, is Punjab chief minister now.
Written in two separate segments as The Crime and The Cover-up Singh is at his weakest ground when postulating that Congress had an agenda to teach the Sikhs a lesson even without the Gandhi assassination. Gandhi not only knew of, allowed and condoled the violence, he took advantage of it. He was advised that this was politics as usual, and he did not question this advice in any way. Kothari, in a nutshell, explains the failure of Rajiv Gandhi as a prime minister.
This is important and should not be forgotten, although, in what has become a farce, people only slam Narendra Modi for post-Godhra riots targeting Muslims but not the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After spending a year in India and talking to survivors, I decided that I had to tell the story of how an entire state apparatus was utilised to commit a heinous mass crime and to ensure decades of subsequent cover-up.
On my return to Britain, I kept a close eye on the series of court cases in India that exonerated the key politicians accused of complicity in the killings. I tried to raise awareness of November with human rights groups, political parties and trade unions but faced a wall of bewilderment — nobody was aware of the events I was describing.
My frustration began to mount, not only with the apathy of these organisations but also with rabble-rousing Sikh groups, whose blustering made little tangible difference to the status quo. The distortions of a true-life Orwellian plot of nightmarish proportions had worked, and for most people it has stuck. In my book, I have attempted to join a series of obscured and murky dots by making extensive use of often harrowing victim testimonies, official accounts, eyewitness statements and media reports.
Collectively they reveal not only the extent of the genocidal massacres and rapes that took place over those four hellish days, but they also lay bare the conspiracy of silence, censorship and impunity offered to the guilty that has persisted for well over three decades.
The violence described in my book is graphic and I make no apology for that. It is also available as an eBook from Amazon. Pav Singh was born in Leeds, England, the son of Punjabi immigrants. As a member of the Magazine and Books Industrial Council of the National Union of Journalists he has been instrumental in campaigning on the issues surrounding the massacres.
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