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=== Assassination of Indira Gandhi and anti-Sikh riots ===
{{Main|Indira Gandhi assassination}}
[[File:Indira Gandhi 1977.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Indira Gandhi]]]]

On the morning of 31 October 1984, [[Indira Gandhi]] was assassinated in [[New Delhi]] by her two personal security guards [[Satwant Singh]] and [[Beant Singh (assassin)|Beant Singh]], both Sikhs, in retaliation for [[Operation Blue Star]].{{sfnp|Fair, Diaspora Involvement in Insurgencies|2005|p=128}} The assassination triggered the [[1984 anti-Sikh riots]] across [[North India]]. While the ruling party, [[Indian National Congress]] (INC), maintained that the violence was due to spontaneous riots, its critics have alleged that INC members themselves had planned a [[pogrom]] against the Sikhs.<ref name="JohnMichael2000">Guidry, John A., Michael D. Kennedy, and Mayer N. Zald, eds. 2000. Globalizations and Social Movements: Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere. Ann Arbor: [[University of Michigan Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-472-06721-3}}. p. 319.</ref>

The [[Nanavati Commission]], a special commission created to investigate the riots, concluded that INC leaders (including [[Jagdish Tytler]], [[H. K. L. Bhagat]], and [[Sajjan Kumar]]) had directly or indirectly taken a role in the rioting incidents.<ref>[[G. T. Nanavati|Nanavati, G. T.]] 9 February 2005. "[https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/Nanavati-I_eng_3.pdf Report of the Justice Nanavati Commission of Inquiry (1984 Anti-Sikh Riots)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203231408/https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/Nanavati-I_eng_3.pdf |date=3 February 2021 }}" 1. New Delhi: [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141127130507/http://www.mha.nic.in/hindi/sites/upload_files/mhahindi/files/pdf/Nanavati-I_eng.pdf Archived] from the original 27 November 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2020.

Also available via [https://ruralindiaonline.org/library/resource/report-of-the-justice-nanavati-commission-of-inquiry-1984-anti-sikh-riots-volumes-i-and-ii/ People's Archive of Rural India] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507133202/https://ruralindiaonline.org/library/resource/report-of-the-justice-nanavati-commission-of-inquiry-1984-anti-sikh-riots-volumes-i-and-ii/ |date=7 May 2020 }}.</ref><ref name="tehelka_fish">{{cite news|date=25 August 2005|title=What about the big fish?|work=Tehelka|publisher=Anant Media|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=Ne082005_What_about.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913061657/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=Ne082005_What_about.asp|archive-date=13 September 2012}}</ref> [[Union Council of Ministers|Union Minister]] [[Kamal Nath]] was accused of leading riots near [[Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib|Rakab Ganj]], but was cleared due to lack of evidence.<ref name="tehelka_fish" /> Other political parties strongly condemned the riots.<ref>Singh, Swadesh Bahadur. 31 May 1996. "Cabinet berth for a Sikh." ''[[The Indian Express|Indian Express]].''</ref> Two major civil-liberties organisations issued a joint report on the anti-Sikh riots, naming 16 significant politicians, 13 police officers, and 198 others, accused by survivors and eyewitnesses.<ref>Kumar, Ram Narayan, et al. 2003. ''[[Reduced to Ashes (book)|Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab]]''. [[South Asia Forum for Human Rights]]. p. 43.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20060705030307/http://www.punjabjustice.org/report/report.htm Available] via Committee for Information and Initiative on Punjab.</ref>