“According to the villagers interviewed, many young men had absconded because of the occurrences of ‘encounter deaths’ in the districts of Amritsar and Gurdaspur. Rather than surrender and face certain death, they have fled. Several other people have fled because of the terror created by the police.
“Cases are piling up in the special courts; hundreds of people are under threat of conviction on the evidence of anonymous witnesses and corroborative evidence. Memories of humiliation and torture are being kept alive by fresh incidents.
BEWARE OF
ANTI SIKH
RUMORS
Article extracted from this publication >> October 25, 1985
