By Jaskaran Kaur

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_13697162?nclick_check=1

When it released its chapter on India this September, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom placed India on its "Watch List," stating that India "has done so little to protect and bring justice to its religious minorities under siege." The report highlights impunity for the Sikh massacres, and violence against Muslims in Gujarat and Christians in Orissa.

Scars linger for survivors who have rebuilt their lives in the Bay Area. While local Sikhs will reflect on the 25th anniversary of the massacres this week, the vast majority of their neighbors will be unaware of the grief gripping the community.

More insidiously, groups that are closely related to the massacres of Muslims in Gujarat participate in Bay Area civic life.