The full text of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's speech to the upper house of parliament regarding the Nanavati Commission's findings on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots can be found here. Selected excerpts are reprinted below:

Mr. Chairman, sir, I must confess to you, at the very outset, that speaking on this occasion has meant a great emotional strain for me." [The death of Indira Gandhi was tragic.] What happened subsequently was equally shameful.

I have no hesitation in apologising not only to the Sikh community but the whole Indian nation because what took place in 1984 is the negation of the concept of nationhood and what enshrined in our constitution. So, I am not standing on any false prestige. On behalf of our Government, on behalf of the entire people of this country, I bow my head in shame that such thing took place.

During the British times, it was the brave Sikh community, which developed the canal colonies of the erstwhile united Punjab which made Punjab the granary of India. With Partition the Sikhs suffered the grievous loss. Our community was divided into two parts. All of them were forced to migrate to this part of the Punjab; and I know hundreds of cases where people came to India with their clothes.... they converted that adversity into an opportunity to reconstruct, to rebuild their lives and rebuilt the life of our nation. And, we all know how a very deficit, poor, east Punjab state, once again emerged on the screen of India as a number one state in terms of per-capita income, as the state known for the start of the green revolution in our country.

I have interacted with hundreds and hundreds of Sikh young men who doubted, at that time, whether they had a place in building a prosperous united Indian nation. I went abroad and several young Sikh people -- students and teachers -- used to come to me with the same questions.

The Sikh community has regained its self-confidence.... Let us help the Sikh community to get out of that trauma of 1984.

The report is before us, and one thing it conclusively states is that there is no evidence, whatsoever, against the top leadership of the Congress party. That lie, which has over the last 21 years been used to poison the minds of the Sikh youth, stands nailed conclusively. There are, of course, individuals mentioned. The commission has not come forward with conclusive conclusions. These are in the realm of probabilities. [W]hosoever figures in the Nanavati Report -- and the commission has in its wisdom found it necessary to draw an adverse inference about their conduct or behaviour -- we will reopen those cases.

So, that commitment I have given..... within the ambit of law, whatever action we can take, we will reopen those cases also if the law of the land permits that.

[W]e are dealing with the past, the present and the future of a very brave community which has bold traditions, which has been a part of our national mainstream, which has contributed far above its proportionate share in our population, in the national freedom struggle, which has contributed, admirably, to the processes of social and economic development in our country, which have, as a result, made Punjab one of the most prosperous States of our country.