Sikh demonstrators commemorate 'genocide' and demand separate state

Thousands of members of the Sikh community marched through central London yesterday in protest of the massacre at the Golden Temple in India over 30 years ago, reports the BBC.

Protestors demanded that the 1984 massacre of Sikhs be recognised as a genocide, whilst others called for the Sikh people’s right to self-determination to be upheld.

In San Francisco, an estimated 15,000 people showed solidarity with the Sikh demands for a separate homeland in the Indian state of Punjab.

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