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Indira Gandhi

1984 anti-Sikh riots

Tuesday Oct 30, 1984
India

Following her cremation, millions of Sikhs were displaced and nearly three thousand were killed in anti-Sikh riots. Rajiv Gandhi on a live TV show said of the carnage, "When a big tree falls, the earth shakes."


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