Perpetrator of Ghallughara 1984 should never be forgotten. Operation Bluestar was planned & designed by Indira Gandhi to kill maximum Sikhs. Majority of those who were killed were pilgrims not connected with the political agitation, gathered to commemorate one of the important +
2. day in Sikh calendar. Operation Woodrose followed Bluestar, a genocidal wave of state terrorism that resulted in arrest, torture & execution of 1000s more. Army units surrounded villages & lined people up in streets. Baptised Sikh men were humiliated, taken away in trucks &+
3. disappeared. Approx 1 million individuals were reported as missing or killed as a result of Army operations during this period. It is estimated that 100,000 youths were taken into custody within first 6 weeks of operation & many of them were not heard of again. During both +
4. Woodrose & Bluestar any turban wearing Sikh wearing was dishonoured & summarily shot point blank with hands tied behind backs, with their unwound turbans. Youth aged between 15 & 35 were targeted for eradication. The official word was eradication of militancy from Punjab. In +
5. reality it was was ethnic cleansing of a minority community. Indira Gandhi was a tyrant who tried to usurp democracy in 1970s & orchestrated killing of several thousand Sikhs in 1980s. If you idolise Indira you support this terrorism. Choose your heroes wisely.
#NeverForget
#NeverForget
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