Atrocities by Indian Government against Sikhs

Given below are some of the methods of torture, humiliation and atrocities used by Indian Government against the Sikhs (These have been mentioned by the Humanitarian Organizations and Amnesty International):

1. To interrogate the Sikhs, a round log of wood is placed on their legs, and after putting heavy weight on the log it is rotated on the legs.
2. Chilly powder is sprinkled in the eyes and sex organs of the Sikhs.
3. Sikhs are hung upside down from the ceilings till they became unconscious.
4. The body joints are battered.
5. Electric shocks are administered to the genitals making most of the youth impotent.
6. Sikh women, during interrogation, are hurt in their sex organs. Filthy abuse is showered on them.
7. Violence is inflicted on the parents in presence of their sons and daughters and vice-versa.
8. Brothers are forced to beat sisters and vice versa. Violence is inflicted on adult girls after stripping them naked and their sex organs are damaged. They are sexually assaulted; pregnancies are terminated of the expectant females.
9. The victims of inhuman violence are made to sit naked in winter and under the sun in summer kept sleepless for days in solitary cells.
10. Sikhs are subjected to severe beatings and filthy abuse in the presence of their village folks.
11. Dead bodies of Sikhs killed in fake encounters are not handed over to their parents to conceal marks of excessive violence
12. The state manipulates tailored post mortem reports from the doctors and burns the dead bodies of the Sikhs after falsely declaring them unclaimed.
13. All sorts of excesses are made on the parents of underground Sikh youths.
14. Indiscriminant atrocities are committed on the parents of the underground youth of the area where some militant action takes place.
15. Atrocities are committed without caring for one's age, health, life or death. If someone luckily survives such brutal excesses, it is well and good But if one dies while under "interrogation", then such a dead body is taken out, pierced with some bullets, and a news item is sent that a dreaded terrorist has been shot dead in an encounter.
16. Houses of underground Sikh youths are demolished, their belongings are looted, crops destroyed, their tube well motors are taken away, and they are prevented from sowing crops.
17. False cases are registered against innocent Sikh youths, later they are let off taking fat bribe.
18. Press is used to launch vicious and false propaganda against the Sikhs.
19. Thousands of innocent pilgrims, children, females, aged people, who got encircled in the Golden Temple during operation Bluestar were made to die through starvation and thirst. The whole of Punjab was converted into a vast jail by clamping curfew on the entire area. The army bulletin branded all Amritdhaaree's as terrorists.
20. The injured during the attack on the Golden Temple were subjected to extreme partiality. Whereas every assistance and facility was made available to the injured army personnel, there was no such provision for the wounded belonging to the other side.
21. The number of prisoners taken was rather small. There is ample scope for doubt that the Indian army had thought it better to eliminate the thousands of people seized in the Golden Temple instead of taking them prisoners or having to provide them with medical assistance.
22. No need was felt to give a list of the dead to the Red Cross or any other International Agency.

Despite such atrocities, no commission was appointed to go into this dark episode. Even the Britishers, the foreign rulers, had cared to appoint the Hunter commission to inquire into the Jallianwalla Massacre which was of a much less magnitude on the other hand. The Indian government, on the other hand, took all steps to hide the excesses of the army.