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USA: A man in the US has been convicted of murdering a Sikh man, whom he mistook for an Arab, in revenge for the 11 September attacks. Frank Silva Roque’s lawyers had tried to claim he was insane when he ...

UK: The British army has honoured the contribution made by Sikh soldiers during World War One. Thousands of Sikhs from the Indian sub-continent fought and died for Britain during the conflict. The commemoration at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst featured a ...

San Jose, USA: In the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Sikhs were unintended target of hate crimes, because the attackers thought they were Muslims. Thirteen years later, Sikhs said the attacks have not stopped. Sikh men ...

USA: I remember visiting my parents in my home state of Wisconsin and receiving a frantic phone call from my husband asking if I was okay. “There was a mass shooting at your Gurdwara (Sikh place of worship),” he told ...