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In pictures: Painful memories
Kuldip Kaur

My children implored with my husband’s killers to let him go. When they set him on fire, they kept saying ‘Oh God, punish these people!’ I kept crying. But they didn’t listen and set him on fire. He was left dead on the doorstep, half-burnt.

There was no dignity in death. I went door to door in my neighbourhood to raise money and gave him a proper cremation. Then I left my home. Forever.

I don’t blame Indira Gandhi for what has happened to us. But the Congress Party let us down.

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