Khalistan Rally Was Organized in Canada in the Memory of the "1984 Sikh Genocide"

In honor of the “1984 Sikh Genocide,” the secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) planned a truck and car rally that drew more than 8,000 Sikhs. At one time, the rally blocked the motorways going into downtown Toronto.

Hundreds of recognizable Canadian trucks drove on the main highway waving flags of Khalistan and chanting, “1984 Sikh Genocide,” as dozens of connected routes became congested. Long lanes of traffic were established on the highway by slowly moving vehicles carrying flags. The posters on the trucks read, “8-day-old Sikh newborn burned alive by Hindu rioters.” Additionally, the vehicles carried symbolic coffins to internationalize the 1984 Sikh atrocity.

Tens of thousands of Sikhs are anticipated to cast their votes at Paul Coffee Arena during the second round of the Khalistan Referendum, which will be held on November 6 in Mississauga and is being organized by Sikhs For Justice (SFJ). More than 110,000 Sikhs participated in the first phase of the Khalistan Referendum on September 18 and voted in favor of it. Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the founder and general counsel of the SFJ, considered the 1984 Sikh Genocide, an effort to erase Sikh identity and religion, to be one of the worst crimes against humanity. Sikhs want to liberate Punjab from Indian occupation through a democratic referendum that will allow Sikhs to vote on the question of Punjab’s future association with India, Pannun said, demanding justice for the community.

Sikhs await justice, and the real justice will be the Sikh homeland of Khalistan, Pannun said. The RSS-BJP administrations, according to Pannun, are promoting a narrative that will result in another genocide of the minority in India. The Sikh leader addressed the gathering, saying that the previous Indian administrations utilized violence against Sikh sovereignty to stifle the independence movement, but now is the moment the community must vote in a referendum to create an independent Sikh country Khalistan.

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Following the murder of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984, planned attacks were launched across India against the Sikh population to destroy the community, with the direct complicity of the police and government.

More than 100 Indian cities experienced ongoing violence against Sikhs over several days, leading to nearly 30,000 killings, tens of thousands of women being molested, hundreds of Gurudwaras being burned, and more than three million people being forced to abandon their homes. The intentional nature, scope, and scale of the violence against Sikhs in November 1984 was genocide, according to reports by numerous international human rights organizations and the most recent report, “Mass Violence Against The Sikh People In India: The Events of November 1984 – A Case of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (updated October 2022),” written by the UK-based Global Diligence LLP.