Ruins of Sikh Village Hondh Chillar that was destroyed during the Hondh Massacre in November 1984 (File Photo: 2011)

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Garg Commission on Hondh Chillar Sikh massacre turned out to be dump squib

By Sikh Siyasat Bureau

March 29, 2015

Amritsar, Punjab: The Dal Khalsa on Saturday said that the one-man commission constituted by his government on March 5 four years ago to probe into the killings of 32 Sikhs in village Hondh-Chillar has turned out to be a damp squib.

Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh said report by Commission of inquiry headed by Justice T P Garg (retd) on Hondh Chillar tragedy was another cruel joke on aggrieved community, whose wait for justice has come to naught by each passing year.

“Compensation sans justice means nothing, it sounds hollow”, he said and added that Sikhs were sick of lip service and they don’t need compensation or sympathy but identification of perpetrators and stringent action against them.

Expressing their anger against denial of justice, he said, “Once again, we, the Sikhs have been made to understand that there would be no justice either for the anti-Sikh carnage in Delhi or for Hondh-Chiller killings and the reason being the complicity of the top politicians in the killings.

He reiterated that UN led international probe was the only way to dig out the truth and bring the culprits to book.

It may be noted that on November 2, 1984, the entire Hondh-Chillar village was burnt down along with its Sikh population.