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http://news yahoo com/sikh-activists-seek-us-prosecution-indian-pm-171753385.html
New York City (AFP) - Sikh activists vowed Thursday to deliver a summons on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a US visit to prosecute him over violence against the community.
A New York-based group calling itself Sikhs For Justice said it planned to use a US law that allows victims of genocide or other major human rights violations overseas to seek redress through US courts.
The complaint said that Singh's "culpability in the crimes of torture and extrajudicial killings of the Sikh community started in 1991, when he took office as the finance minister."
Thousands of Sikhs were killed in India in 1984 in riots that erupted after prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in retaliation for ordering a raid on the faith's holiest temple to crush a separatist uprising.
The complaint said that Singh -- who is Sikh himself -- authorized cash rewards for security forces and, after becoming prime minister in 2004, shielded members of his Congress Party from accountability over the past violence.
Under US law, a court can decide on action if a defendant does not reply to a summons within 21 days.
Sikhs for Justice acknowledged they were unlikely to be able to deliver the summons to Singh but said it would serve the order to his security detail or US officials meeting the prime minister.
The group said it delivered a similar summons to Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi, the daughter-in-law of Indira Gandhi, when she visited the United States for medical treatment.
Singh is paying what will likely be his final trip to the United States of his near-decade in office, during which he has encouraged the rapid warming of ties between the world's two largest democracies.
New York City (AFP) - Sikh activists vowed Thursday to deliver a summons on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a US visit to prosecute him over violence against the community.
A New York-based group calling itself Sikhs For Justice said it planned to use a US law that allows victims of genocide or other major human rights violations overseas to seek redress through US courts.
The complaint said that Singh's "culpability in the crimes of torture and extrajudicial killings of the Sikh community started in 1991, when he took office as the finance minister."
Thousands of Sikhs were killed in India in 1984 in riots that erupted after prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in retaliation for ordering a raid on the faith's holiest temple to crush a separatist uprising.
The complaint said that Singh -- who is Sikh himself -- authorized cash rewards for security forces and, after becoming prime minister in 2004, shielded members of his Congress Party from accountability over the past violence.
Under US law, a court can decide on action if a defendant does not reply to a summons within 21 days.
Sikhs for Justice acknowledged they were unlikely to be able to deliver the summons to Singh but said it would serve the order to his security detail or US officials meeting the prime minister.
The group said it delivered a similar summons to Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi, the daughter-in-law of Indira Gandhi, when she visited the United States for medical treatment.
Singh is paying what will likely be his final trip to the United States of his near-decade in office, during which he has encouraged the rapid warming of ties between the world's two largest democracies.
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