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Operation Blue Star was a military operation by the Indian Armed Forces conducted between 1 and 10 June 1984 to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and other Sikh militants from the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), a holy site of Sikhism, and its adjacent buildings.
By the late 1970s and 1980s, the Khalistan movement began to militarize, marked by a shift in Sikh nationalism and the rise of armed militancy. This period, especially leading up to and following Operation Blue Star in 1984, saw increased Sikh militancy as a response to perceived injustices and political marginalization. [56]
The planning for Operation Blue Star was initiated long before Bhindranwale had relocated to the complex in December 1983 and begun to fortify it [221] [222] running sand-model exercises for the attack [223] [224] [225] on a Golden Temple replica in the Doon Valley over 18 months prior, [221] [222] and over 125 other Sikh shrines were ...
Operation Blue Star was a large Indian military operation carried out between 1 and 8 June 1984, ordered by Indira Gandhi to remove leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his militant Sikh followers from the buildings of the Harmandir Sahib complex in Amritsar, Punjab. [1]
Operation Blue Star: 1984 Punjab: Cleanup operation carried out at Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab: 12 Operation Woodrose: 1984 Punjab: 13 Operation Meghdoot: 1984 Siachen Glacier, India: The Siachen Glacier is a glacier located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas, Ladakh at about 35.421226°N 77.109540°E, just northeast of the ...
Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Florida, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee who oversees foreign assistance, told ABC News, "The president won the election. He has the right to review ...
AUSTIN — The three-paragraph news release that publicly launched Operation Lone Star presented the initiative as one that would do little more than "integrate" the assets of the Texas Department ...
NeverForget84.com, written-out in prose as Never Forget '84, was a Khalistani-affiliated Sikh website that covered the 1984 Operation Blue Star military operation and the personal stories of Sikh militants. [1] [2] Indian media outlets had described the website as being "a popular hub of radical Sikh voices". [3]