Edited sentence: Ignatieff's dismissed the Canadian Sikh community's request to label the anti-Sikh violence as a genocide, vis-a-vis what Ignatieff called "genuine contemporary instances such as Rwanda.In a June 2010 press release , Ingatieff's comments on the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots sparked criticism in the Sikh community and blogosphere.The Sikh community organized against this response,.The community voiced several arguments against Ignatieff, perhaps most saliently an ignorance to a strong body of academic literature that has repeatedly labeled the events as a genocide or pogrom