Members of the Sikh community at the Wall of Truth, a memorial for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims, at Gurdwara Rakabganj in New Delhi on December 18, a day after Sajjan Kumar was convicted. PTIIndian voters who will turn 18 before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections were not born in 1984. Thirty-four years is the time some of the survivors of the anti-Sikh riots waited to see the first influential political leader accused of leading blood-thirsty mobs get convicted. Common to these mass crimes were the targeting of minorities and the attacks spearheaded by the dominant political actors being facilitated by the law enforcement agencies. She was 16 in 1984 when she saw her father being burnt by a mob, and whose statement helped the court sentence Sajjan Kumar for life.

Source: The Telegraph December 18, 2018 13:41 UTC