Jaswant Singh Khalra (1952–1995) [1] was a Sikh human rights activist. He garnered global attention for his research concerning 25,000 illegal killings and cremations involving the Punjab police, and that the police had even killed about 2,000 police officers who …

In September and October 1995, Indian security forces illegally detained, tortured, and killed her husband, human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, for his work uncovering over 2,000 cases of extrajudicial executions and secret cremations in Amritsar district alone.

2018年11月28日 · Shaheed Jaswant Singh Khalra (1952-1995) was a human rights defender who was born in Khalra village of Amritsar district. He was a bank employee in Amritsar during the 1980's.

2025年1月30日 · When it opens in August, Jaswant Singh Khalra Elementary will be the first public school in North America to be named after a person of Sikh descent.

We remember S. Jaswant Singh Khalra on the anniversary of his disapperance. We reflect here on his work, his death his legacy and how the uproar over his abduction caused ripples in Canada. Jaswant Singh Khalra's Abduction & Murder.

Jaswant Singh Khalra (1952-1995) was a notable Sikh Human rights activist who investigated and highlighted the 25,000 unclaimed (Sikh) dead bodies cremated by the security forces of Panjab during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

In 1995, the Indian state abducted, tortured, and murdered human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra for uncovering thousands of enforced disappearances, custodial killings, and illegal cremations of Sikhs by the Punjab Police.

2016年9月6日 · A bank director at first, Jaswant Singh became a human rights activist after a government-led genocide centered in New Delhi, India s capital, killed thousands of Sikhs in the streets at broad daylight.

2013年9月7日 · Jaswant Singh Khalra led the campaign against Human Rights abuses in Punjab and fought against death threats and intimidation from the authorities to achieve justice for those who had been ill served.

2024年12月19日 · Jaswant Singh Khalra was an unparalleled zealot for justice, dedicating himself to meticulous research in his relentless pursuit of truth. During his research, he discovered the municipal cremation records- where people tagged as “unidentified" were disposed of en masse, often labeled as militants.