Don't have it both ways. Just say whether it should have happened or it. "It was a shame...but ..." doesn't make sense.
Difference in Punjab anti-hindu activities of 1981-84 vs Anti-sikh riots of Nov 1984. Its painful for me to write, I will write it just once; and won't go back and forth. I am not here to win an argument.
1. Number of per-capita murders in Punjab in 1981-84 was 1/6th the per-capita murder of UP, Bihar.
2. Number of sikhs killed by terrorists were more that number of hindus killed.
3. Many murders which may have happened because of usual property disputes were classified as terrorist murders
4. Many police encounters were classified as murders done by terrorists
5. 1984-1992 period in punjab, hundreds of thousand of sikhs were killed and secretly cremated. You understand punjabi. Following is worth a listen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktfuGXpi5qw
Khalra was killed by police for raising this. (many policemen were eventually convicted in his murder)
So, I would just conclude that sikhs were as unsafe in punjab in 80s as were hindus. Hindus were only threatened by terrorists; but sikhs were threatened by both terrorists and police.
Anti-sikh riots were conducted by policemen under the order of politicians. If you are a sikh in delhi; not hiding in some safe place; there was 100 % chance that you would be killed, during those three days.
Its pathetic that I have to state the obvious to people with selective amnesia; who was willing to say "..but.." with the grossest of the acts.
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