The internation media has not highlighted the Khalistan issue. Sikhs want an independent nation in India.The 1984 Sikh Massacre or the 1984 genocide of Sikhs was a series of pogroms directed against Sikhs in India, by anti-Sikh mobs, most notably by members of the Congress party. Official Indian government reports admit to about 2800 deaths across India, including 2100 in Delhi, other independent sources estimate the number of deaths to be around including at least 3,000 in Delhi. The violence in Delhi was triggered by the assassination of Indira Gandhi, India`s prime minister, on 31 October 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards in response to her actions authorising the military operation to attack the Golden Temple and eliminate any insurgents as it had been occupied by Sikh separatist.



