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Who is Guilty - the Invisible Hand in Sikh Genocide 1984

Where All Fingers are Pointing at? Is there really a direct link between words and actions? Can words and images inspire people to commit acts of genocide? "We must remember Indiraji. We must remember why her assassination happened. We must remember who could be the people behind this. When Indira's assassination happened, there were riots in the country. We know that the hearts of the Indian people were full of anger and that for a few days people felt India was shaking. When a big tree falls, the earth shakes." These infamous words have come to be remembered as Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's justification for the carnage that took place after his mother's death. It seemed to suggest that the Congress party saw the anti-Sikh riots as a natural response to the assassination, a shaking of the earth. The savage conspiracy to kill hundreds of Sikh men, rape women, plunder their homes and mock their religious beliefs in the wake of Indira Gandhi’s ass