Worldwide Candlelit Vigils

All over the world, candlelit vigils will be held to call for justice for the victims of the 1984 anti-sikh pogroms. The cities involved in this are, Birmingham, Derby, Leicester, London, Bristol, Leeds/Bradford, New York, Toronto, Dehli, Chandigarh, Brussels and The Hague.

As can be read in the poster; Birmingham's will be held in Chamberlain Square from 4:00 Pm until 7:00 Pm. Leicester's at the Clock Tower from 5:00 Pm until 7:30 Pm. London's will be outside of the Houses of Parliament from 4:00 Pm until 7:00 Pm. Bristol's will be held at the Bristol City Centre Promenade. And Derby, my hometown's, will be outside the Derby Assembly Rooms near the Cornmarket from 4:30 Pm until 7:00 Pm.

All the vigils are to remember those slaughtered during the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms, and those widows and orphans who were and still victimised for being Sikhs. It has been 22 years and no justice has been served. If a guilty person were too be set free here in the UK, their would be an uproar, people crying "that person is guilty, he's committed crimes" in no time at all. However, over the last 22 years no ones been crying out for those people to be punished for their crimes against the Sikhs. And those who have been have either been silenced or murdered.

It would be a great inspiration to see you at one of these events, even if you do not stay the whole time, just to show your support and light a candle. Please show up, it was your brothers, uncles, fathers who had tyres put around their necks, drenched in oil and set alight. It was your sisters, aunties, mothers who were pushed onto the ground, clothes ripped off them and raped. Don't sit in silence.

The person who sits in silence witnessing a crime and does not do anything is worse than the person actually committing the crime.