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Archiving Memory in Law: 40 Years After the 1984 Sikh Massacres
Thursday, October 3, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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2024 marks 40 years since the Indian Army’s siege and massacres across Punjab in June 1984, and the anti-Sikh genocide that spread across India that November. The deadliest decade for Punjab and Sikhs ensued, with enforced disappearances, secret prisons, suspension of habeas corpus, and terror. Since then, the Sikh community, lawyers, human rights investigators, and community-based human rights organizations have used human rights law to address the violence caused by state illegality in India. However, the politics of international human rights law often exclude specific groups from accessing meaningful remedies for systematic violent crimes of state actors. This panel will discuss the generations of human rights and memory work around those “disappeared” and lost to the Punjab conflict. RSVP HERE. Lunch will be served!
Speakers include:
Mallika Kaur: Lecturer, Berkeley Law; author of Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper
Guneet Kaur: DAAD Doctoral Fellow, Law and Society Institute, Humboldt University-Berlin; LLM UC Berkeley
Harjot Singh: M.A. Candidate in Human Rights Studies, Columbia University; 2021 Berkeley Human Rights Center Fellow
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