Massacre  

The court also upheld the life imprisonment sentences of ex-Congress councillor Balwan Khokhar, retired Navy officer Captain Bhagmal and Girdhari Lal. The sentences of former MLA Mahendra Yadav and Kishan Khokhar have been increased from three to 10 years of imprisonment.
 

Here is a list of prominent politicians, all from the Congress, accused of leading or inciting mobs to massacre Sikhs following the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the hands of her guards who happened to be Sikhs
 

The prosecution had said the policemen had come to village Hashimpura and picked up about 50 Muslims. The victims were shot by the accused personnel and their bodies were thrown into a canal.

Tamil Nadu CM asserted that his government would be following the principle stated by Jayalalithaa – that Rajapaksa should be announced as a war criminal and put to trial at the International Court of Justice for the massacre of innocent Tamils.  
 

Controversial Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had allegedly visited the graves of Palestinian terrorists in Tunisia back in 2014