Sikh March
Hundreds of Sikhs marched from the Beverly Center to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust on Saturday to mark the 1984 anti-Sikh massacre and protest human rights violations in India.
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Manmeet Singh, 19, of Riverside participates in the remembrance walk.
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A Sikh man wears an article of faith known as a kirpan -- a religious knife or sword -- during the remembrance march.
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Janki Kaur, 55, participated in the march, which marks the three days of anti-Sikh pogroms across India in 1984. She says she is still haunted by the memory of the violence directed at her family. “It’s difficult, but it’s important that I share the pain,” she says.
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Manmeet Singh, 19, of Riverside participates in the march.
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