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UNESCO Asked to Preserve 1984 Haryana Massacre Site
PROKERALA NEWS
New York, U.S.A.
A Sikh community group has asked UNESCO to preserve and manage the ruins of Hondh-Chillar in Haryana, India, where a mass grave of Sikh victims of 1984 pogroms was recently found, under the World Heritage Programme.
The demand was made by a delegation of Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) which met UNESCO Director, General Irina Bokova, recently to apprise her about the discovery of the "mass grave" of Sikhs in Hondh-Chillar, according to Tejkaran Kaur, Youth Coordinator, SFJ.
In a memorandum to Bokova, SFJ said since UNESCO is mandated to protect ruins and sites across the world, SFJ was asking the UN body to preserve the Hondh-Chillar ruins "before they are completely destroyed just like many such sites across India where Sikhs were attacked and killed in November 1984."
SFJ has also invited reputable archaeologists from Europe and North America who have worked on Jewish Holocaust sites and Armenian Genocide sites in order to seek expert guidance in preserving the Hondh-Chillar Genocidal site, Gurpatwant Singh, legal advisor to SFJ said.
April 14, 2011
Conversation about this article
1: N. Singh (Canada), April 14, 2011, 8:18 PM.
Thank you.
2: Parminder (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada), August 06, 2011, 8:03 PM.
It is a good idea to browse through this website and learn. It tells us about the History of the Sikhs.