One exit NRIs won’t cry over

In their first reaction after the long-awaited report on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots was tabled in the Parliament, Sikhs in the US have asked the Centre to take action against all political leaders and police officers indicted by the Commission.

‘‘As long as the Government of India fails to punish those responsible for the mass murder of innocent Sikhs, incidents like the Gujarat riots are bound to happen in other parts of India as well, simply because politicians and officials know that nothing is going to happen to them,’’ said Tarunjit Singh, secretary general of World Sikh Council-America Region.

Raghunandan Singh Johar, president of the Sikh Study Circle in Atlanta (Georgia) said that the ATR has sent the message globally that the government was hesitant in taking action against those responsible for the riots.

‘‘Once again, through yet another commission, the government has fortified impunity for perpetrators of mass murder and stonewalled justice,’’ alleged Jaskaran Kaur of Ensaaf, a California-based non-profit group working among 1984 riot victims.