The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

by Sanam Sutirath Wazir

256 pages, Paperback

Published June 27, 2024

Reviews

[Samita Kaur · Rating 5 out of 5]

"The Kaurs of 1984" by Sanam Sutirath Wazir depicts the most harrowing accounts #1984SikhGenocides. Memories of deserection of Golden Temple, Shri Akal Takht Sahib, and state sponsored killing, riots,violence of worst kinds towards Sikh community is far from imagination. Targeting women , their stories never coming out, justice denied even with evidence and eye witnesses giving accounts of various gruesome events. Reading this book was really difficult for me , had to get up many times ftom reading as it brought in memories of 1984. It is easy for all to say move on but can violence and torture ever be forgotten or erased from memory ? Read so many books on Holocaust and stories of survivors , #SikhGenocide1984 can never be forgotten where the innocents were killed, murdered, tortured, and left to die. Women were humiliated, raped and without a single woman police officer present, they were interrogated and implicated in false cases. There's no excuse for the violence that was insewed upon Sikhs and there's no excuse for denying them Justice. Denying Justice to Survivors of 1984 Sikh Genocide means denying them the basic right as a citizen and, above all, as a human being. - Samita Kaur