Operation Blue Star’, the code name of Indian army’s 1984 assault on Golden Temple, the Sikhs’ holiest shrine in Amritsar, was a brazen act of state-sponsored terrorism against the Sikh community.
While human rights violations were being perpetrated against the Sikhs across India even before the ‘Operation Blue Star’, the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar was an official beginning of such violations and systematic purge of Sikhs in India, said a report released by Kashmir Media Service, today.
The ‘Operation Blue Star’ was launched on June 2, 1984. Indian army backed by tanks and artillery guns massacred thousands of Sikhs including pilgrims during its attack on the Golden Temple between 2 & 10 June 1984. The Sikhs’ holiest shrine was also reduced to rubble during the assault.
The report maintained that even after 39 years, the victims of ‘Operation Blue Star’ and those killed in the ensuing bloody chain of anti-Sikh riots are still awaiting justice.—KMS
