Jalandhar: The White House has stated, in response to a "request genocide" driven by a Sikh group that serious violations of human rights took place during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, but do not call it genocide as required.
The Obama administration has further stated that the U.S. monitor and report publicly on the serious human rights violations that occurred and the atrocities committed against members of the Sikh community. The U.S. response, which came on a petition with 30,517 signatures driven by Sikhs For Justice (USF) and seek killings November 1984 and recognized as "Sikh genocide" also mentioned the denial of fair public trials and disappearance of Sikhs.
He noted, "the official national reports from the State Department on human rights practices, for example, cover the violence and its consequences in detail, with sections on political killings, disappearances, denial of fair public trials, the negative effects on freedom of religion and the government's response to civil society organizations to investigate allegations of human rights violations. "