BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 3. Sikhs represent not
only a religious but also an ethnic and racial community, Lead
Executive of the Sikh Federation (UK), Sidhu Dabinderjit Singh,
said at an international conference titled "June 1984, events in
Amritsar: India's transnational repression of ethnic minorities in
the context of genocide", held in Baku, Trend reports.
According to him, genocide is the deliberate and systematic
destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial, or
religious group.
"Genocide is widely considered the most serious crime against
humanity.
According to Article 2 of the 1948 UN Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, a certain
threshold of proof must be met for genocide to be recognized.
Intent to destroy a protected group must be proven.
There is no doubt that Sikhs are such a protected group. We
represent not only a religious community, but also an ethnic and
racial community," said Dabinderjit Singh.
