Iqbal Kaur

Iqbal Kaur’s father and son were killed as her house was looted. She was shot. Her other son was injured. Her daughter lay still between dead bodies. When, traumatized, Kaur told the murderer, “shoot me too,” he responded, “I am out of bullets, otherwise I would.”

Hear Kaur recount the treatment meted to the survivors by the police; the racism displayed at the hospital in November 1984; her son’s hounding after confronting PM Narasimah Rao about the violence on BBC years later; and the family’s eventual migration from India to escape the murderous harassment.