21-10-2019 17:37 via kvoa.com

Library removes Sikh memorial after criticism from India

NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut library has removed a memorial to Sikhs killed in India 35 years ago after a protest call from the Indian Consulate in New York.
The memorial, which was put up in June, included a plaque, flags and a portrait of a Sikh separatist movement leader who was among those killed in a June 1984 attack by the Indian army on the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated five months later by two of her Sikh bodyguards, leading to
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