33 years since anti-Sikh riots post Indira's assassination
As many as 8,000 people are believed to have died across the country in the anti-Sikh riots that started on November 1, 1984. The riots were triggered by PM Indira Gandhi's assassination by her two Sikh bodyguards. Gandhi's assassination was in response to Operation Blue Star, seen as a desecration of Amritsar's Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine.