On 3 June 1984, a curfew was imposed on the state of Punjab with all methods of communication and public travel suspended. Electricity supplies were also interrupted, creating a total blackout and cutting off the state from the rest of India and the world. Complete censorship was placed on all types of Media. To this day, what Army action took place remains unknown and unreported.
The Times reporter Michael Hamlyn reported that journalists were picked up from their hotels at 5 a.m. in a military bus, taken to the adjoining border of the state of Haryana and "were abandoned there". The main towns in Punjab were put under curfew, transportation was banned, news blackout was imposed and Punjab was "cut off from the outside world". A group of journalists who later tried to drive into Punjab were stopped at the road block at Punjab border and were threatened to be shot if they proceeded. The Indian nationals who worked with the foreign media were also banned. The press criticized these actions by Government as an "obvious attempt to attack the temple without the eyes of foreign press on them".
What little is known is Operation Blue Star coincided with a Sikh annual festival. Pilgrims, including the elderly and children, were trapped inside the temple when the operation began and so there was a massacre with a staggeringly huge number of civillian casualties as a result.
Then GOC of the Indian Army, S. K. Sinha who was sacked at the last moment had criticized the Government's projection of the attack as a "last resort"; and stated that the attack was in plans 1 year and 6 months prior to the actual day of attack. S. K. Sinha and Mark Tully report that the army had been rehearsing the attack for this time in the replica of Golden Temple they had built at a secret location near Chakrata Cantonment in the Doon Valley.
During the operation the Sikh Reference Library caught fire and many rare books, priceless artefacts and manuscripts were destroyed.
The timing of Operation Blue Star coincided with a Sikh religious day, regarding the martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev (the founder of Golden Temple), and Sikhs from all over the world visit the temple on this day. In 1736 the Golden Temple was attacked by the Mughal army, resulting in heavy casualties of civilian Sikhs. Attack of Ahmad Shah Abdali on Golden Temple (Darbar Sahib) also came on Vaisakhi day when Sikhs gather in large numbers in Amritsar. The timing of the attack by the Indian Army was widely viewed as an attempt to inflict maximum casualties on Sikhs and demoralize them. In fact one of the reasons for heavy civilian casualty was the choice of day of Operation Blue Star by Government as large number of Sikh followers congregated at the Golden Temple complex during the martyrdom-day of Guru Arjan Dev. The Sikh community's anger and suffering was further increased by comments from leading newspaper editors, such as Ramnath Goenka, terming the operation as " A greater victory than the win over Bangladesh, this is the greatest victory of Mrs. Gandhi".
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Thanks for uploading this more Indians must see this video. This kind of state sponsored genocide is totally unacceptable. Killing our own people !! What the heck was Indira Gandhi thinking? Is this democracy ??? It is nothing but a centralised bureaucracy ! Thank goodness for the internet people like me know the other side of the story. I was a young man at that time who only heard the government propaganda from the scant media in the country those days.
Disgusting to read all the hateful comments here from so called Indians ! btw I am not a Sikh but this kind of state genocide is unacceptable to Indians like me.
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Whatever happened it was not good and it was very very sad. My personal view is if rather than buying weapons and build an army against the army , If the schools were build, same passion and motive was used to educate people and rather than create a solder we should have create a world class Engineer, a Doctor or any other professionals. We could get funded from outsiders to build a world class industry in punjab, rather than we were given weapons. We would still have young heroes among us
widout sikhs, there is no india,i mean without hindus or muslims,there is no india,even though there is pakistan but still muslims still live in india..its just a game playd by the leaders who r crackheads and wannt to die,its just the whole society becomes psychotic nd start killing each other for their own respect,To fight, the involvement of both sides is must otherwise there will be no fight,people die everyday but the one who comes into limelight are the ones who dont have the fear of death
wat do u noe bout sacrifice man..stfu and stop spreading hatred..!!it aint about hindus, sikhs or nething like that....the first thing we should be aware of is that we r human beings......
ridgerides ur rite..gur nanak dev baba ji never said celebrate any1's death and bring weapons to gurudwara....baba ji ne ta kiha c...awal alla iko noorupaya kudrath de sab bande,ik noor te sab jag upjiya kon bhale kon mande..verr koi burra ni hunda...
Hindu or not, the story dsnt say anything abt religion. no one can say wht hapnd? they say hindu were in gurudwara with shoes to disgrace it then y bhindrawala bought weapons of destruction wihtout asking the same question? they hindus burnt sikhs alive then y sikhs distributed sweets and celebrated indira's death? does gurunanak dev say tht u come in gurudwara with weapons or celebrate anyone's death?? hindu's did wrong but y sikhs blame them doing the same.
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SIKHI=Religion=72Virgins2fuck= الدين
SIKHI=Wayof life=HINDU womenRURwhores
SIKHI=Peace=Kill;Dead peopleRpeaceful
SIKHI=GRUNTSHOAIBLawRespect=St one disobedient women2death
SIKHI=loving=المحبةSIKH law allows killing enemies=love=♥SEX ORGIES WITH72VIRGINS MAKING WHORES OUT OF ALL HINDU WOMEN FUCKSEX WITH UR SISTERS MOTHERS DAUGHTERS IS NOT INCEST IN SIKHI..PROPHET GURUGOBINDSINGJEE-RASOOL OF ALLAH ♥ PAKISTAN ZINDABAD♥.
My personal view is if rather than buying weapons and build an army against the army , If the schools were build, same passion and motive was used to educate people and rather than create a solder we should have create a world class Engineer, a Doctor or any other professionals. We could get funded from outsiders to build a world class industry in punjab, rather than we were given weapons.
We would still have young heroes among us