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All Genocide Punjab Sikhs War

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“How easily women become the first casualty of every conflict, large or small. Rape and gendered segregation are common weapons of war and ethnic cleansing.”

War Genocide Punjab Sikhs

Book:The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“Successive governments have advised us to forget the past and focus on the future. Put yourself in our shoes for a second. Is it possible to erase the bloody past?”

War Genocide Punjab Sikhs

Book:The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“I thought all of this will end soon and everything will be normal shortly. But its been thirty years. I'm still waiting for things to get back to normal.”

War Genocide Punjab Sikhs

Book:The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“In this unending chaos, and with the passage of time since then, the voices of the Kaurs who lived through unimaginable horror and trauma have been silenced. And once I became aware of this silence, I wanted to undo it. I wanted to ensure that the voices of these survivors were heard and their stories remembered.”

War Genocide Punjab Sikhs

Book:The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“Most of these women were not educated; many had never stepped out of their homes. They responded to the continuum of patriarchy as they had been conditioned to do so - providing thumb impressions to false statements, and in the case of rape survivors, staying silent because they were commanded to to so.”

War Genocide Punjab Sikhs

Book:The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“Without a male guardian in their lives, and with their mother gone from the house for long hours every day, the children turned wayward and, eventually, dropped out of school.”

War Genocide Punjab Sikhs

Book:The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“A regular exposure to hurt, humiliation, and social isolation made them sink into a world of their own. Depressed and alone, they began having trouble eating and sleeping as they grew older.”

War Genocide Punjab Sikhs

Book:The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women