{"id":77838,"date":"2018-09-22T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=77838"},"modified":"2018-09-22T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T14:00:43","slug":"sikh-rights-body-seeks-un-probe-into-1984-killings-of-sikhs-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=77838","title":{"rendered":"Sikh rights body seeks UN probe into 1984 killings of Sikhs in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-lg-8\">\n<div class=\"newsdetailcontent\">\n<p>New York, Sep 22 (TNS): A US-based Sikh rights organization has asked the United Nations to investigate the killings of thousands of Sikhs in India following the 1984 assassination of the then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.<\/p>\n<p>In a briefing to Special Adviser to the UN on the Prevention of Genocide in New York, Legal Adviser to Sikhs for Justice Gurpatwant Singh Pannun said systematic killings of a community fall under the 1948 Genocide Convention and world body cannot just ignore its own mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Pannun said India has failed in its duty to hold the perpetrators of the killings to account, thus making a UN probe essential.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, Sep 22 (TNS): A US-based Sikh rights organization has asked the United Nations to investigate the killings of thousands of Sikhs in India following the 1984 assassination of the then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. In a briefing to Special Adviser to the UN on the Prevention of Genocide in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77840,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77838\/revisions\/77840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}