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Amritsar, June 2 (ANI) Sikh intellectuals as well as Sikh radicals maintain that the scars following army action in Golden Temple, code named Operation Bluestar, are deep and could not be easily forgotten but they want government to declassify the secret documents related with army action...

LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron has directed his cabinet secretary to establish the facts behind claims that Margaret Thatcher's government may have helped Indira Gandhi plan Operation Bluestar in 1984. Labour MP Tom Watson and Lord Indarjit Singh had demanded an explanation...

Bluestar ‘84: Breaking the Wheel of Dharma Here at Sikh Philosophy Network are many threads about the atrocity that occurred on June 4 1984 at Sri Harmindir Sahib. In fact we have a special section about 1984 full of accounts: timelines, photo essays, personal remembrances, political...

Bluestar memorial issue takes new turn http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Amritsar/Bluestar-memorial-issue-takes-new-turn/SP-Article1-1065443.aspx The controversy surrounding the Operation Bluestar memorial took a new turn on Friday as a Sant Samaj faction led by Bhai Ram Singh dubbed...

Construction of Bluestar Memorial complete Thursday, April, 25 2013 - 13:46 AMRITSAR: The construction of controversial Operation Bluestar Memorial has been completed. The memorial has been constructed before its due date which was late May. Akhand Path ceremony today began in the...

Operation Bluestar was a wrong decision: VK Singh Claims that the then Chief of the Army Staff had opposed it Tribune News Service Amritsar, February 21 Former Army Chief General VK Singh today said that Operation Bluestar was a wrong political decision and that the then Chief of...

The Still Warm Embers of Operation Bluestar CHANDER SUTA DOGRA http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-still-warm-embers-of-operation-blue-star/article4316923.ece? Every year when it happens, the country sits up with concern. In Punjab though, the death anniversaries of the...

This scholarly article explores the vast differences between what happend in jallinwallah bagh in 1920 and Operation Blustar 1984... http://www.rozanaspokesman.com/epaper/fullpage.aspx?edition=main&yview=2012&mview=Aug&dview=01&pview=13 Major differences: 1. Jallinwallah bagh - an INDIVIDUAL...

Now, Ramdev backs Bluestar Memorial Navjeevan Gopal - Posted online: Fri Jul 06 2012, 00:20 hrs Amritsar : Yoga guru Ramdev on Thursday supported the controversial decision of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to build a memorial to those who were killed during Operation...

Sunday, 10 June 2012 22:33 Amitabh shukla - Senior Editor, The Pioneer, Chandigarh Building a memorial for those who died in Operation Bluestar would not serve any purpose It seems there is a conspiracy of silence in Punjab. It was this silence by those at the helm which led to a...

Union Home Ministry warns Punjab government over Bluestar Memorial PunjabNewsline - Friday, June 8, 2012 - 19:30 By Sukhpal Kaur CHANDIGARH: Taking serious note of the setting up of the Operation Bluestar Memorial at the Golden Temple, the Union Home Ministry has warned the Akali-BJP...

Political plinth The site for the memorial for Operation Bluestar martyrs Politics: punjab Troubled Reminder A memorial for Op Bluestar ‘martyrs’? Chander Suta Dogra Provocative Idea... •SGPC adopts resolutions in 2002 and 2005 to raise a memorial for “martyrs" of...

That is where the next most favourite whipping boy, the Sikh, entered the scene. The Sikhs were a simple God-fearing people who had been slated for slow elimination anyway. They considered themselves patriots and had made more contribution to the welfare and security of the country and more...

SGPC agrees to memorial for 'Operation Bluestar' Bowing before the oft repeated demand of radical Sikh groups, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandik Committee (SGPC) has agreed to set up a memorial to the memory of those who perished during 'Operation Bluestar', launched by the army in June 1984...

YouTube- Golden Temple-Before and After Operation Blue Star

I only found out about the saddening events which occured at Amritsar in January this year. I watched a documentary which was shown on the BBC, and was shocked by the stories told by victims, and the photographs shown. Being born in 1994 10 years after the event, I was never aware of what had...

Memorial for Bluestar martyrs: SGPC feels the heat as radicals plan protest Memorial for Bluestar martyrs: SGPC feels the heat as radicals plan protest The issue of a “fitting” memorial for those who died during the Operation Bluestar is back to haunt the politics in Punjab. While...

Dal Khalsa, a radical Sikh body, said on Tuesday that it would hold a week-long programme during the upcoming anniversary of the Operation Bluestar and demand a memorial in the memory of those died in June 1984, inside the Golden Temple complex. In a statement issued here, president of the...

Punjab saw ethnic violence, marked 25 years of Bluestar (Flashback 2009) Punjab saw ethnic violence, marked 25 years of Bluestar (Flashback 2009) 2009-12-17 Punjab hogged national headlines due to the violence it saw after an attack on Sikh leaders of the Dera Sachkhand in faraway Vienna...

Part 1: YouTube- Golden Temple Desecration - Aftermath of Operation Bluestar They show the atmosphere of destruction caused as a result of the army attack. The cameraman is heard at one point getting angry at an army soldier who is standing lazily on top of a building structure. A shopkeeper...