The 1984 anti-Sikhs riots was a riot directed against Sikhs in India, by anti-Sikh mobs, in response to the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards, there were more than 3000 deaths.

(Original Caption) Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India who was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. The news of Gandhi's death plunged New Delhi and other parts of India into anti-Sikh riots for three days; several thousand Sikhs were killed in the aftermath. (Photo by Jacques Langevin/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)