The truth behind the Amritsar massacre
The truth behind the Amritsar massacre Doctors who conducted post mortems reported that the hands of Sikhs had been tied behind their backs with their turbans as pictured, and they had been executed at point-blank range. In the past, there have been attempts to silence our voices in remembrance of 1984; if at any moment our posts on 1984 do not show up, they have not been removed by us. Code-named Operation Bluestar began on June 1st 1984. Up to 150,000 Indian army troops were sent to the northern Indian state of Punjab, the Sikh homeland, equipped with helicopter gunships and tanks. Over 125 other Sikh shrines were simultaneously attacked. On the false pretext of apprehending ‘a handful of militants’ lodged inside the Golden Temple, the Indian army unleashed a terror unprecedented in post-independence India. It took the use of Vijayanta tanks to win the fight for the army. These let loose a barrage of highly explosive shells, which destroyed the Akal Takht, the temporal seat of ...