Humanities Genocide; 1984 Anti-Sikh Riot In June 1984 Indira Gandhi asked the indian army to attack the golden temple. The temple was a holy place for the Sikhs. This was the operation Blue Star. Another mission was to assassinate Jamail Sigh Bindrawali. Bindrawali was known to be a great Sikh soldier. To some he was a killer who will kill if people don’t believe in his religion( Sikh). A riot started when Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her bodyguards. Many Sikhs say that her death was unintentional. The anti-Sikh riot in 1984 is genocide because this anti-sikh riot were intended to destroy the religious group by killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, they tried to destroy the group in whole or…show more content… It wasn’t hard to kill the Sikh’s since they know that the The Golden tmple is where they prayed that was why they attacked the temple first before they start the anti-Sikh riot. The Hindu Indians says that Sikh’s are not hard to identify from their appearance. Since Sikh men mostly have long hair meanwhile Hindu men are supposed to shave their head (khalsa, Are Sikhs Hindus? - 10 Ways Sikhism Differs From Hinduism). Killing members of the Sikh were intended to destroy the Sikh’s future. Sikh’s men, women, and children were all dead by torture, butchered or even urned alive(Singh Bal, Sikh Genocide 1984). This action was intended since there were no police or army seen(Singh, 1984 Sikhs’…show more content… Gurdip Kaur a Sikh women who was raped told her story on how se lost her three sons and her husband and still not forgetting the moment when that happened. She said that “Three of the men ran out and were set on fire. My youngest son stayed in the house with me. But they came into the house. Those young boys, 14 and 16 year olds, began to drag my son out even though he was hiding behind me. They tore my clothes and stripped me naked infront of my son. They raped me right there, in front of my son, in my own house. They were young boys, maybe eight of them. After they had taken my honour, they left. I took my son to sit among the women but they came and dragged him away. They took him to the street corner, hit him with Lathis, sprinkled kerosene over him, and burnt him alive. I tried to save him but they struck me with knives and broke my arm. At that time I was completely naked. I had managed to get hold of an old sheet, which I had wrapped around myself. If I had even one piece of clothing on my body, I would have gone and thrown myself over my son and tried to save hi,. I would have done anything anything to save at least one young man of my family. Not one of the four is left.” (Singh, 1984 Sikhs’ Kristallnacht). From this women’s story we can tell how devastating cruel the hindu’s were. They did everything they can to cause serious bodily harm when they raped Kaur and broke her arm when she tried to