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Oral History Interview with Shanti Shah
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Shanti Shah was born in India and immigrated to the U.S. as an adult. She is one of the original founders of SILC and has served as a teacher, administrator and board member.

Oral History Interview with Chitra Subrahmanian
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Chitra Subrahmanian was born in India and immigrated with her parents to the U.S. She attended SILC as an older student and now serves as the principal of SILC.

The Punjab Crisis and Human Rights
Book by Iqbal Singh entitled The Punjab Crisis and Human Rights, published by Citizens For Human Rights and Civil Liberties in June of 1985. The publication chronicles the 1984 attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar and subsequent mass killing of Sikhs in Delhi.

1984 Sikhs' Kristallnacht
Publication by Parvinder Singh entitled "1984: Sikhs' Kristallnacht" and published in 2009. The publication chronicles the 1984 attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar and subsequent mass killing of Sikhs in Delhi, including many images of the massacres and drawing comparisons to the persecution of Jews in 1930s Germany.

Cover of "1984: Breaking the Silence"
Cover of "1984: Breaking the Silence," a collection of essays relating to the mass killing of Sikhs in 1984 and subsequent coverup by the Indian government. Published by Pardeep Nagra Singh and Dr. Parminder Kaur Mann.

Illustration by Vishavjit Singh
Illustration by Vishavjit Singh; the image is a political cartoon depicting a multiple-choice question asking “What do Chile, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Punjab all have in common?” The circled answer is “Witness to war crimes within the last 30 years.” This refers to the mass killing of Sikhs in Delhi in 1984. This image is a duplicate.

"Fake Encounters That Killed By The Thousands"
Illustration by Vishavjit Singh; the image tells the story of Jaswant Singh Khalra, who documented evidence relating to the 1984 mass killing of Sikhs and was subsequently abducted and killed by Indian police officers in 1995. It also depicts Harinder Singh, killed in 1990, as one of a mountain of skulls.

"Mapping Justice: An Indian Roadmap"
Illustration by Vishavjit Singh; the image is a political cartoon entitled “Mapping Justice: An Indian Roadtrip.” The “map” starts in 1984 with “Kill, burn alive and rape thousands of innocent Sikhs” and ends in 2003 with “19 years is not enough to convict a single guilty person.” The “rest areas” are captioned as “Government appointed commissions to make recommendations with no judicial powers.”

Illustration by Vishavjit Singh
Illustration by Vishavjit Singh; the image depicts a Sikh man writing a message: “in memory of thousands of innocent Sikh children, women, [and] men [...] killed by the Indian army attack on Darbar Sahib in June 1984.”

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