Sikh Genocide Project: Third Sikh Holocaust, Part 2 (Invasion of the Golden Temple)

The Third Sikh Holocaust consists of series of four clips, which have been produced by the Sikh Genocide Project to promote dialogue about the genocide of Sikhs in India from 1984 to1996.

The Indian Army led an army operation that was code-named "Blue Star". Professor Cynthia Kepply Mahmood, describing the scale of the attack, writes:

"When it [the Indian army] attacked the Golden Temple complex at Amritsar in 1984, containing the holiest shrine of the Sikhs, the ostensible aim was to rid the sacred buildings of the militants who had taken up shelter inside. But the level force used in the attack was utterly incommensurate with this limited and eminently attainable aim. Seventy thousand troops, in conjunction with the use of tanks and chemical gas, killed not only the few dozen militants who didnt manage to escape the battleground but also hundreds (possibly thousands) of innocent pilgrims, the day of the attack being a Sikh holy day. The Akal Takht, the seat of temporal authority for the Sikhs, was reduced to rubble and the Sikh Reference Library, an irreplaceable collection of books, manuscripts, and artifacts bearing on all aspects of Sikh history, burned to ground. Thirty-seven other shrines were attacked across Punjab on the same day. The only possible reason for this appalling level of state force against its own citizens must be that the attempt was not merely to flush out, as they say, a handful of militants, but to destroy the fulcrum of a possible mass resistance against the state" (Cynthia Keppley Mahmood, Dynamics of Terror in Punjab and Kashmir. In Jeffrey A. Sluka, ed., Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000, p. 77).

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• Genocide
• Sikhs
• Indian Army
• Bluestar
• war crimes pogroms
• Brar
• Jarnail Singh
• Shahbeg Singh
• ethnic cleansing
• human rights
• state-sponsored terror

[param2u]

Attack on Golden Temple was utterly un-acceptible and was an attack on every Sikh anywhere in the world!!!!!God bless the souls of innocent people who perished in such a holy and pious place..Its very sad...

[MrBossplayer007]

what do mean forget it?! huh! if any1 says that he or she is not a sikh!

[3Rattle]

@Moebab haha.....this monkey is on some heavy duty islamic drugs!!!fuckin retard!

[singhsamra1000]

true face of world largest democracy....we will always rember this sikh genocide and tell our coming generations....god bless the souls of peoples who have been killed by army and hindu mobs in delhi,kanpur and other cities in 1984...

[Tonyr00]

@Moebab

Jag taran Guru Nanak aayaa....holy scripture

It means Guru Nanak came into this world to preach the truth to all mankind!

Nothing is hollier than this and we are proud sikhs to be blessed with our Guru and his preachings!

[Tonyr00]

@Moebab

You iliterate man, word 'sikh' means 'enlightened'...Guru Nanak was a saint.

He went to Makkah to enlighten the corrupt mullahs and idiots and bigots...to open their eyes!

[Tonyr00]

@desisher16

Good man...telling the truth

[Tonyr00]

@Moebab

You are a cunninbg little basket you Muslim!

Eating cows or not has nothing to do with hindus and sikhs being brothers.... sikhs do not eat beef as a principle anyway!

You have no knowledge of history as to why Khalsa was created....

It was to fight and destroy muslims....stay put man!