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The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also known as the 1984 Sikh massacre, was a series of organised pogroms against Sikhs in India following the assassination of...

June 1984 to remove Sikh militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and other Sikh militants from the buildings of the Golden Temple, a holy site of Sikhism. A...

Hondh-Chillar massacre (Punjabi: ਹੋਂਦ-ਚਿੱਲੜ ਕਤਲੇਆਮ [hɔ́nd tʃɪlːəɾ kə̀lːuɡɑ̀ɾɑ]) refers to the killings of at least 32 Sikhs on 2 November 1984 in a hamlet...

'Sikh Genocide Memorial'. It has been built under the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee. After a long wait, The memorial of 1984 Sikh massacre...

Sikh genocide or Sikh massacre may refer to: Chhota Ghallughara, Punjabi for "Smaller Massacre", a massacre of Sikhs near Gurdaspur, India by the Mughal...

Sikh Reference Library. Gandhi's assassination by her Sikh bodyguards led to the 1984 Sikh massacres which were instigated by political figures from the...

2012, a skit about the Sikh runner Fauja Singh, which included jokes about the 1984 Sikh massacre, was sharply criticized by the Sikh community. In 2011,...

death led to the slaughter of Sikhs in the ensuing 1984 Sikh Massacre. These events played a major role in the violence by Sikh militant groups supported...

other ethnic and religious minorities. For example, in the 1984 Sikh massacre, 3,000 Sikhs were brutally killed in an orderly pogrom. And the 2002 Gujarat...

The 1983 Dhilwan Bus massacre was a massacre of 6 Hindus by Sikh extremists amidst the Insurgency in Punjab. It occurred on 5 October 1983, when a bus...

ਘੱਲੂਘਾਰਾ [tʃʰoːʈäː kəl˨luːkäː˨ɾäː], "Smaller Massacre") was a massacre of a significant proportion of the Sikh population by the Mughal Empire in 1746. The...

The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting was a mass shooting that took place at the gurdwara (Sikh temple) in Oak Creek, Wisconsin on August 5, 2012, when 40-year-old...

The Chittisinghpura massacre refers to the mass murder of 35 Sikh villagers on 20 March 2000 in the Chittisinghpora (Chittisinghpura) village of Anantnag...

States–Sikh Wars, Early Mughal-Sikh Wars, Mughal-Sikh Wars, Wadda ghallughara, Chotta gallughara and the 1984 Sikh massacre. Joti Jot Shaheed Shrine Kharku...

assassinate an Indian politician in retribution for his involvement in the 1984 Sikh massacre. On 12 April 2023, four Indian Army soldiers were killed in Bathinda;...

major incidences include the 1961 Jabalpur riots, 1969 Gujarat riots, 1984 Sikh massacre, the 1989 Bhagalpur riots, 1989 Kashmir violence, Godhra train burning...

Khalistan movement is a separatist movement seeking to create a homeland for Sikhs by establishing an ethno‐religious sovereign state called Khalistan (lit...

Movement started by the Sikhs in the early twentieth century. At the time of the massacre, there was a growing demand in Sikhism that the traditional hereditary...

The Mehjoor Nagar Sikh massacre refers to the fatal shooting of Sikhs on 3 February 2001 in the Srinagar district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. In this...

Ghalughara (the Smaller Massacre). Mostly non-combatants were killed in the event, and an estimated that 10,000 to 50,000 Sikhs were killed on 5 February...