Exclusive ‘New York Times’ thread on Hindus getting killed by Sikh Separatists post 1984: (When NYT used be unbiased) July 1986- The killers halted a luxury bus, singled out 15 passengers as Hindus and shot them with pistols and automatic weapons as the other passengers watched by the side of the road. One report said that the dead included a Sikh who had not been wearing the sect’s traditional turban and so was mistaken for a Hindu. https://nytimes.com/1986/07/27/weekinreview/the-world-violence-in-india-sikh-extremists-kill-15-on-a-bus.html

August 1986- Others at the temple said Sikhs had threatened violence against their daughters and wives and extorted money. ”They looted our shop and stole all our televisions and radios,” said Jagdish Lal, a shopkeeper. A Problem for Gandhi The authorities say several thousand Hindu refugees from the Punjab have come into the capital in the last several months, creating a major political problem on the doorstep of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Mr. Gandhi’s Government would like to send them back to the Punjab, but officials admit this could not be done until the state settles down. https://nytimes.com/1986/08/03/world/no-end-in-sight-to-sikh-hindu-strife.html

June 1986- Sikh militants shot dead five people in Punjab State today, and a Sikh was killed in retaliatory violence by militant Hindus, the police said. https://nytimes.com/1986/06/13/world/around-the-world-5-in-punjab-shot-to-death-by-sikh-militants.html

April 1986- Sikh extremists shot dead six policemen at a courthouse in Punjab state today and freed three prisoners who were accused of killing a Hindu editor, an Indian official said. https://nytimes.com/1986/04/06/world/6-policemen-slain-in-punjab-as-gunmen-free-3-sikh-prisoners.html

March 29, 1986- Sikh extremists killed at least 13 Hindus and wounded 20 today in the Punjab city of Ludhiana, a city official reported. https://nytimes.com/1986/03/29/world/around-the-world-sikhs-kill-13-hindus-punjab-toll-reaches-80.html

March 30, 1986-Gunmen identified as Sikh terrorists fired submachine guns from a jeep at residents of three Punjab villages today, killing at least 10 people and wounding as many as 15, the police said. The shootings occurred in villages near the town of Nakodar, about 50 miles southeast of Amritsar. All or most of the victims were Hindus, the police said. https://nytimes.com/1986/03/30/world/around-the-world-10-reported-killed-by-sikhs-in-punjab.html

Dec. 1, 1986-Four Sikh extremists hijacked a bus in a rural area of the Punjab today, ordered Hindu passengers off the bus and then shot them with submachine guns and revolvers. At least 23 men and women were reported killed and several others were wounded, according to Indian news agencies tonight. https://nytimes.com/1986/12/01/world/sikh-extremists-hijack-punjab-bus-and-kill-24-people.html

May 23, 1986-Eight of those killed were Hindus and three were Sikhs. Police reinforcements rushed to the area and reported arresting 12 people in connection with the shootings, but news reports said those held were not believed to be directly involved. More than 70 people, mostly Hindus, have been killed in Sikh reprisals since April 30 https://nytimes.com/1986/05/23/world/around-the-world-shootings-in-punjab-kill-11-and-wound-7.html

June 17, 1986-Sikh terrorists who want an independent nation in the Punjab, where Sikhs are a majority, have killed more than 400 people this year. Most of their victims have been Hindus. https://nytimes.com/1986/06/17/world/around-the-world-13000-hindus-arrested-for-a-protest-in-india.html

Jul 12, 1987-Sikh terrorists killed dozens of Hindu bus passengers last week, touching off a new round of sectarian violence and challenges to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Government. On Monday night, 38 bus passengers were shot to death and more than 20 wounded in the northern state of Punjab, where Mr. Gandhi had dismissed the Sikh governor in May in an effort to restore public order. On Tuesday, 100 miles to the southwest, 34 more bus passengers were killed and 30 wounded in Haryana, a predominantly Hindu state situated between Punjab and New Delhi. Five hundred people have been killed this year in Sikh-related violence. https://nytimes.com/1987/07/12/weekinreview/the-world-sikh-terrorists-kill-72-in-attacks-on-buses-in-india.html

Aug. 8, 1987-Those killed at the village were mostly Hindus, witnesses said. The police said terrorists shot five Hindus after a car chase Thursday afternoon on a highway near Amritsar. https://nytimes.com/1987/08/08/world/terrorists-kill-25-in-punjab-curfew-in-sikh-city.html

Oct. 22, 1987-Terrorists said to be Sikhs killed at least 11 people Tuesday night in a burst of shooting here on the eve of a Hindu festival. https://nytimes.com/1987/10/22/world/gunmen-said-to-be-sikhs-kill-11-in-delhi-on-eve-of-hindu-festival.html

March 4, 1988-At least 32 people were killed and 25 wounded when gunmen attacked a village crowd celebrating a Hindu festival in the Punjab Thursday night, the state government said today. Another 12 people were killed in separate incidents Wednesday night. In Thursday night’s incident, Indian news agencies quoted the police in the town of Jalandhar as saying the terrorists, believed to be militant Sikhs, burst into Kari Sari village about six miles from the industrial town of Hoshiarpur and opened fire, killing both Sikhs and Hindus. https://nytimes.com/1988/03/04/world/44-slain-in-sikh-hindu-violence.html……

June 1, 1988-Sikh separatists set off bombs at a Hindu temple and in a crowded market in the northern Indian state of Punjab, killing at least 26 people and injuring nearly 100, the police said today. https://nytimes.com/1988/06/01/world/26-killed-in-punjab-bombings-blamed-on-sikh-separatists.html……

Aug. 7, 1988-Security officials in Punjab said today that they had found the bodies of 41 men, women and children who were tortured to death by Sikh militants in the months that the militants held control of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. https://nytimes.com/1988/08/07/world/bodies-of-41-torture-victims-found-at-sikh-temple.html……
Feb. 8, 1988-Sikh militants opened fire today on a Hindu wedding party, killing the bridegroom and three other people, the police said. https://nytimes.com/1988/02/08/world/sikhs-kill-four-at-wedding.html…… June 22, 1988-The death toll in the explosion in Kurukshetra, a Hindu holy city that is the site of frequent religious pilgrimages, rose to 22 today, https://nytimes.com/1988/06/22/world/two-bombs-in-punjab-shopping-area-kill-24.html……

June 20, 1988-The bomb was hidden in a cloth bag and left among poor Hindu laborers watching a popular Hindu epic outside the shop. Officers said the bomb was apparently detonated by remote control. Shortly after the blast, in Kurukshetra in Haryana State, Sikh radicals assassinated the head of a militant Hindu group in neighboring Punjab State. The Hindu leader’s bodyguard and an aide were also killed. In other violence in the Punjab, Sikh extremists shot and killed three police officers late Saturday, the police reported. https://nytimes.com/1988/06/20/world/sikhs-blamed-in-bombing-at-shop-in-punjab-15-die.html……

April 2, 1988-Eighteen of the killings today occurred at Rajhra village, near Patti. Police officials told reporters that Sikh radicals had surrounded the homes of a Hindu family, rounded up the members, including a 5-month-old infant, and sprayed them with gunfire from automatic weapons. https://nytimes.com/1988/04/02/world/gandhi-urged-to-order-emergency-in-punjab-after-89-die-in-a-week.html……

Nov. 5, 1988-A police spokesman in Chandigarh, the state capital, said 26 people were killed and 50 wounded in the attack on the market when seven bombs exploded in rapid succession. The market is in a Hindu neighborhood in Batala, north of Amritsar. https://nytimes.com/1988/11/05/world/42-slain-and-54-hurt-in-2-attacks-in-punjab.html……

May 24, 1988-Thousands of Hindu migrant workers from eastern India have fled Punjab after more than 50 of them were killed last week by Sikhs, the state’s top police official said today. https://nytimes.com/1988/05/24/world/thousands-of-hindu-workers-flee-punjab-as-sikhs-step-up-violence.html……

08-Jan-1989-Sikh militants shot to death 14 Hindus today in two attacks in the northern Indian state of Punjab, apparently seeking to avenge the hanging of two Sikhs convicted in the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. https://nytimes.com/1989/01/08/world/sikhs-kill-14-hindus-after-executions-in-india.html……

Nov. 11, 1989-Suspected Sikh extremists stormed an engineering college before dawn today, killing 19 students sleeping in a dormitory, the police said. The militants, armed with Chinese-made AK-47 rifles, entered Thapar Engineering College and knocked on the door of the dormitory, said a police spokesman. https://nytimes.com/1989/11/11/world/sikh-extremists-raid-school-killing-19-sleeping-students.html……

Jan. 13, 1989-Police Superintendent Govind Ram said the headman of Bhujiawali village and his three brothers, all Hindus, were kidnapped Wednesday night by a raiding party of five Sikhs and found hanging from trees the next morning. He said a note claimed responsibility for an underground Sikh militia and threatened more hangings of Hindus in revenge for the executions of Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh in New Delhi. Most victims of the Sikh militants are Hindus, but the militants also attack moderate Sikhs who oppose the separatist campaign. https://nytimes.com/1989/01/13/world/punjab-militants-said-to-kill-36.html

Nov. 23, 1990-The Press Trust of India quoted unidentified police officials as saying that 25 people were killed. The agency said militants forced passengers “of a particular community” to get off the buses and killed them. The phrasing indicated that the victims were Hindus. https://nytimes.com/1990/11/23/world/sikh-militants-slay-at-least-16-in-an-attack-on-buses-in-punjab.html……

May 16, 1990-Sikh militants impersonating Government security troops shot and killed seven Hindus after luring them out of their homes in the northern state of Punjab, the police said today. The killings occurred late Monday in Darrowali, 42 miles north of the Sikh holy city of Amritsar. https://nytimes.com/1990/05/16/world/sikhs-slay-6-in-north-india.html……

April 16, 1990-A bomb hidden in a tractor exploded outside a Hindu temple in the Punjab town of Ludhiana today, killing 5 people and wounding 25 who were watching a popular television program at a nearby shop, the police in the northern area of India reported. The officers said militant Sikh separatists were responsible. https://nytimes.com/1990/04/16/world/bomb-near-hindu-temple-kills-5-in-northern-india.html……

Nov. 27, 1990-The authorities imposed an indefinite curfew today on a town in Punjab state after Sikh separatists shot 15 Hindus to death there in a new surge of political violence in India. https://nytimes.com/1990/11/27/world/punjabi-town-put-under-curfew-after-15-hindus-die-in-new-strife.htmlNov…….

April 4, 1990-At least 34 people were killed in Punjab State today when a bomb believed to have been set by Sikh radicals exploded in the middle of a Hindu religious procession. https://nytimes.com/1990/04/04/world/34-killed-in-bomb-blast-at-hindu-rite-in-punjab.html……

27-Dec-1991 —A group of gunmen, reported to be Sikh separatists, marched through a hijacked passenger train in Punjab state this evening and systematically shot Hindu passengers, leaving at least 49 dead and 20 wounded, Indian news agency reports from the area said. https://nytimes.com/1991/12/27/world/49-slain-by-gunmen-on-train-in-india.html……

Oct. 18, 1991-Two bombs exploded at a Hindu celebration in this northern town on Wednesday night, killing at least 41 people and wounding more than 140. The police blamed the attacks on militant Sikh separatists. https://nytimes.com/1991/10/18/world/2-bombs-kill-41-and-injure-140-in-india.html……

Aug. 11, 1992-Sikh militants herded 17 relatives of police officers into a school playground today, shooting and killing them to avenge the death of a guerrilla chief. Nine more people were killed in raids on nearby villages. All 26 victims were relatives of policemen. Elsewhere in Punjab, five policemen or their relatives were killed. https://nytimes.com/1992/08/11/world/26-relatives-of-police-slain-in-punjab-separatist-strife.html

(This article has been compiled from the tweet thread posted by @BefittingFacts on December 17, 2023, with minor edits to improve readability and conform to HinduPost style guide)