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NY Sikh, Muslim workers allowed religious headwear. New Yorks Sikh and Muslim transit workers will be allowed to wear religious head coverings without a government agency logo after years of bitter legal battles that started after the 9/11 terror attacks. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-05/D9V3C6780.htm

October 31-November 3, 1984, were days of horror for Sikhs in India, when mobs killed thousands of Sikhs and destroyed or pillaged Sikh property. Yet the perpetrators, many of them clearly identified, were never brought to justice. Sikhs are now seeking, through signatures on an international petition, to have the United Nations declare those tragic events to be genocide.  http://www.sikhsiyasat.net/2012/05/20/aissf-sfj-launched-1984-yes-its-genocide-campaign-to-collect-signatures-in-support-of-petition/.