The 1984 anti-Sikh riots or the 1984 Sikh Massacre were a series of pogroms directed against Sikhs in India, by anti-Sikh mobs, most significantly by members of the Congress party, in response to the murder of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. There had to do with 2800 deaths across India, including 2100 in Delhi. The Central Bureau of Investigation, the major Indian examining agency, feels that the acts of violence were organized with the assistance from the then Delhi cops and some central government authorities. Rajiv Gandhi was vowed in as Prime Minister after his mother's death and, when asked concerning the riots, said "when a huge tree falls, the planet shakes".
During the Indian Emergency enforced by Indira Gandhi in the 1970s, countless Sikhs campaigning for self-governing government were imprisoned. The erratic physical violence continued as a result of an armed Sikh separationist group which was designated as a terrorist body by the Indian government. In June 1984, during Operation Blue Star, Indira Gandhi ordered the Indian Army to assault the Golden Temple and remove any insurgents, as it had actually been occupied by Sikh separationists which were stockpiling weapons. Later procedures by Indian paramilitary forces were launched to remove the separationists from the countryside of Punjab state.
The violence in Delhi was triggered by the murder of Indira Gandhi, India's prime preacher, on 31 October 1984, by 2 of her Sikh bodyguards in response to her activities authorizing the armed forces procedure. The most affected regions were the Sikh areas in Delhi.
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