Top Searches Coronavirus in India. PC Mody. Covid Cases in India. Bhupesh Baghel. Salman Khurshid New Book. Harmindar Sahib's entries and exists were completely seald. Ordnance QF 25 pounder was used to attack the Sikh militants. However, the negotiations had failed. Journalists were reportedly were put in a military bus and abandoned at border of Haryana.
In that period, Punjab faced a curfew and there was no transportation across the state. Journalists who tried to enter Punjab were denied entry. Indian nationals, who were working for foreign media were also denied entry into Punjab. All these incidents led to heavy criticism towards the government. The primary reason for the assassination is the Operation Blue Star, which was ordered by her. After the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31 , anti-Sikh riots took place on 1 November It continued for a few days, which killed more than 3, Sikhs.
Mobs made use of iron rods, knives, and combustible material such as kerosene and petrol. The mob attacked Sikh neighbourhoods, brutally killing any Sikh men or women they could find.
Their shops and houses were destroyed and burned. In other incidents, armed mobs also stopped buses and trains, in and around Delhi. They pulled out Sikh passengers, who were doused with kerosene and burnt alive.
The Golden Temple has literally become the heart of the community. The Golden Temple in Amritsar. Credit: Reuters.
The death, destruction and sacrilege caused during Operation Bluestar pierced the heart not only of the Sikhs but also of many Punjabi Hindus. The devastation it caused in the personal lives of so many millions has still not been fully recorded and acknowledged because the political divide over the attitudes towards Operation Bluestar has overshadowed the human stories. I will share two stories from my family. One relative was an Akali activist who had faced imprisonment and police beatings during the long-drawn-out Punjabi Suba movement the struggle for a Punjabi speaking state that succeeded partially in ; nevertheless, he was very proud of having lived a life of dignity.
He was in his eighties when Operation Bluestar happened. He lost his mental balance — one moment, he would swear at Indira Gandhi, the Indian prime minister who ordered the army action at the Golden Temple, and the next he would laugh uncontrollably. Sometimes, he would regain some normality and would question why he lived the last years of his life in so much pain.
His tortured inner life came to an end within a few years. The other story is very close to me personally. It is through him that I was first introduced, at the age of 12, to the world of communism when he brought a local communist activist to the house for a meal. My uncle was a brave and a very lively person. He was so devastated by the pain caused by the army action at the Golden Temple that he never laughed again afterwards.
He would not talk too much about it except once in a while in anger. Bains: This procedure has failed completely. Mohinder Singh: What justice can we get from here? Mohinder Singh discusses the abduction and murder of his son by the Punjab police and his pursuit of numerous avenues of justice.
Tarlochan Singh: A Mockery of Justice. Join the Movement! Gurcharan Singh and his Desire for Justice. In an SBS Dateline program on Punjab, Geoff Parish discusses the Punjab governments offer of compensation to 17 families, with no investigation or admission of liability by the state, in the Punjab mass cremations case.
Gurcharan Singh rejected this offer. An SBS Dateline program on Punjab describes human rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalras discovery of the Punjab polices use of secret cremations to hide evidence of extrajudicial executions.
The clip includes an interview with human rights activist Ram Narayan Kumar. This exclusive interview reveals how the Indian Army intentionally killed thousands of civilians and used excessive force during this assault. On July 23, , Punjab Police officers abducted, tortured, and unlawfully killed year old Sikh community leader Kuljit Singh Dhatt. For 25 years, his family has relentlessly pursued justice, attending over a hundred hearings, petitioning various courts and commissions, and enduring police harassment and intimidation of witnesses.
On May 9, , a judge convicted three police officers of abduction in order to murder Kuljit Singh Dhatt, sentencing them to a mere five years. The legal battle continues, now in the higher courts.
In his last speech made to a Canadian audience, Jaswant Singh Khalra discusses his investigations into the thousands of illegal killings and secret cremations by the Punjab police and his readiness to die to expose the truth about these crimes. Jaswant Singh Khalra begins his speech with a moving fable about the struggle of truth and light against expanding darkness.
Through government records obtained from these municipalities, Khalra exposed a detailed history of systematic human rights violations in which security forces abducted, murdered, and secretly cremated an estimated 6, Sikhs in Amritsar district alone—then one of 13 districts in Punjab—from to Paramjit Kaur Khalra on Impunity in Punjab. In this video, Paramjit Kaur Khalra describes the need for a truth commission to redress the thousands of disappearances and killings in Punjab, India perpetrated during the counterinsurgency of to
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