It has been thirty years since the assassination of the Indian Prime Minsiter Indira Gandhi and Professor Swaran Singh has made a documentary for BBC Radio 4 of his memories of the days immediately after when thousands of Sikhs were massacred in revenge attacks. You can hear the documentary here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mhd58

There have been commemorative events on taking place in the Sikh community all over Britain to mark the genocide of 1984. Professor Singh spoke at the Candlelight Vigil in Birmingham on Saturday 1 November and shared with the crowds his very moving and personal eye-witness experience. He revealed that he was one of the first Sikhs to be physically attacked outside the Hospital in which Indira Gandhi died. He felt a blow at the back of his head, and his turban was knocked off as he fell to the ground. He somehow managed to escape the mobs and make it back to his family residence where they and other Sikh families were the lucky ones as they were given protection by their Hindu neighbours. Professor Swaran Singh went onto say that large swathes of Delhi was burning, streets and alleys were covered with the burnt bodies of Sikhs in their 100’s. All this said Professor Swaran Singh was not a result of mindless rioting mob, but clear and damning evidence of a state enabled genocide.