Operation Blue Star.

[deckingraj]

Operation Blue Star was an absolute necessity...just like Operation Lal Masjid.....so it had to be conducted....

And no matter how many immature Youtube hate videos you post here...no matter how many Anti India threads you start on this topic...the fact is that operation blue star is what brought normalcy in Punjab ...after a decade of Terrorism.

Hang on a minute....even though i know the intentions of thread starter yet i would like to make some clarifications on the above statements....

When you say Operation Blue Star was an absolute necessity i vehemently disagree...The result(cleaning the holy shrine from terrorists) was indeed absolute necessary however not the manner in which it was done.....the day on which it was inducted was the biggest blunder of GOI....You might be surprised however Sikhs came in full support of Bhindranwala only after Operation Blue Star....Before that he had influence yet Akali's had some say as well....The kind of public support operation blue star gave to terrorist agenda would not have been accomplished had Golden Temple not attacked....

the fact is that operation blue star is what brought normalcy in Punjab ...after a decade of Terrorism.

You got to check your facts my friend...Operation Blue Star brought havoc in Punjab....Had not been punjabi's who realized that the menace(terrorism) is eating the whole punjab and rejected the support for terrorists you would still be hearing AK-47's in punjab...No one except who stayed in Punjab during that era can understand how dreadful the atmosphere was...Not a single day when we don't use to read about deaths(be it by Police...be it by terrorists)......One thing we also forget that Bhidranwala was creation of IG to take on Akali's and when he turned against her supported by some sactions of Sikhs she realized her mistake...However i have no doubts in my mind had people known the after effects of the operation(which was first of its kind) complemented with the fear of repeat of 1971 rest assured no one would have dared to do what they did....

In the end i would say Operation Blue Star is a big blot on our history....This is a lesson learnt though the hard way...You cannot kill the sentiments of people by Tanks...you got to address them politically...

 

[IBRIS]

Must you hear it from me, the video isn't my creation so how am i trying to flame.

One can just visit this moron youtubers profile and see yourself how ignorant he is and his subscribers.

We the people of Indian Punjab laugh at this sort of propaganda, which claims that Sikhs in India, and especially in Punjab, are faced with a grim future. Today, Punjab has become a land of boundless opportunities, offering distinct advantages for investment and industry.

 

[Windjammer]

One can just visit this moron youtubers profile and see yourself how ignorant he is and his subscribers.

We the people of Indian Punjab laugh at this sort of propaganda, which claims that Sikhs in India, and especially in Punjab, are faced with a grim future. Today, Punjab has become a land of boundless opportunities, offering distinct advantages for investment and industry.

Yep, sitting several thousand miles away in a Western city, Sag, Lassi, and all is honky dory is sweet music to ears.

 

[IBRIS]

Yep, sitting several thousand miles away in a Western city, Sag, Lassi, and all is honky dory is sweet music to ears.

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa
Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh


Hakk sach di kamayee karke,
Sare jagg te karan sardari.
Hikk tanke tauhar naal jeaunde,
Jind varke nibhaunde yaari.
Raaji yaar di razza de vich rehna,
Kulli ch' bhacen kakkh na rahe,
Main mishri! mishri brobar jaani,
Eh mitran di loon di dali.
Yaar nu mannda na boli,
Te meri bhaven jaan kaddlae channeya,
Panjabian de yaar nu hamesha rabb manneya!!

 

[Windjammer]

Suggest all you wanna bees read the following title.
BTW, It's your favourite source, "Wikipedia".


Soft Target (book)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada

Cover page.
Author Zuhair Kashmeri & Brian McAndrew
Country Canada
Language English
Genre(s) Investigative Journalism, Espionage, Canadian Sikhs, Canadian History
Publisher James Lorimer & Company
Publication date 1989 and reprint in 2005
Media type Print Paperback & Cloth
Pages 162
ISBN 1-55028-221-1 (Paperback 1989) & 1550289047 (2005)
Followed by Reprint in 2005
Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada is a investigative journalism work in the form of a book written by two Canadian reporters Zuhair Kashmeri (from Globe and Mail) & Brian McAndrew (from Toronto Star). The authors define Soft Target as "an espionage term used for any country, institution or group of people very easy to penetrate and manipulate for subversive purposes"[1] and argue that the Canadian Sikh community was a "Soft Target" of a covert operation by the Indian government during the 1980s. The book also makes a bold claim that Indian intelligence agencies not only penetrated the Sikh community in order to discredit them world wide and halt the momentum of the demand of an independent Sikhs state, but also manipulated the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)[1].

 

[deckingraj]

Suggest all you wanna bees read the following title.
BTW, It's your favourite source, "Wikipedia".


Soft Target (book)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada

Cover page.
Author Zuhair Kashmeri & Brian McAndrew
Country Canada
Language English
Genre(s) Investigative Journalism, Espionage, Canadian Sikhs, Canadian History
Publisher James Lorimer & Company
Publication date 1989 and reprint in 2005
Media type Print Paperback & Cloth
Pages 162
ISBN 1-55028-221-1 (Paperback 1989) & 1550289047 (2005)
Followed by Reprint in 2005
Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada is a investigative journalism work in the form of a book written by two Canadian reporters Zuhair Kashmeri (from Globe and Mail) & Brian McAndrew (from Toronto Star). The authors define Soft Target as "an espionage term used for any country, institution or group of people very easy to penetrate and manipulate for subversive purposes"[1] and argue that the Canadian Sikh community was a "Soft Target" of a covert operation by the Indian government during the 1980s. The book also makes a bold claim that Indian intelligence agencies not only penetrated the Sikh community in order to discredit them world wide and halt the momentum of the demand of an independent Sikhs state, but also manipulated the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)[1].

Did you read Reactions part in the same wikipedia??

I.J. Singh from the editorial advisory board of 'The Sikh Review', Calcutta and 'The Encyclopedia of Sikhism', Punjabi University, Patiala reviews the book as "A gripping tale, cleverly told with clarity and brevity...delves into areas where solid proof is often elusive and evidence rarely follows a straight path". There are many other critics, mostly from Canada and India, who point out that this book simply well written propaganda for Sikh separatism.

This book was later viewed by the official Commission of Inquiry in Canada as a work of fiction based on the events surrounding Flight 182 especially after the guilty plea by Inderjit Singh Reyat[3]

In 1992, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police indicated that it possessed no evidence to support the allegations made in the book that the Government of India was involved in the Air India bombing.[3]In response to the allegations made by the book, the book was banned in India.

 

[Windjammer]

Product Description
A provocative look at one of Canada's biggest tragedies

On March 16, 2005, almost twenty years after one of the biggest mass murders in Canadian Aviation history, the Air-India Case concluded with a verdict that authors Zuhair Kashmeri and Brian McAndrew predicted sixteen years ago when Soft Target was first published: not guilty.
In this second edition, the two offer a detailed foreword that brings readers up-to-date with some startling new information surrounding the twin bombings on June 23, 1985 in the air over the Atlantic, and on the ground in Japan, which left 331 people dead. They offer key details from the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri that took place in a specially-built Vancouver courtroom, leads that were not followed up, and more details of India's intelligence service's clandestine interference in Canada. They explain how their own prediction that justice would not be found because of a botched investigation came true, and that only a public inquiry will offer closure to the families of the victims.

 

[Asian.Century]

London: Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar, who led Operation Blue Star against Sikh militants holed up inside the Golden Temple in 1984, has been stabbed and injured in London.

The Indian High Commission has confirmed that three men assaulted General Brar, 78, outside his hotel and stabbed him with a knife. He has been operated upon now and is now recovering at home. Sources say that Gen Brar is returning home to India on Tuesday.

General Brar's wife was with him; she was pushed to the ground but was not injured. She told NDTV, "We were walking down Oxford Circus at 10.30 pm in the night. Three bearded men attacked him and tried to slash his throat. We cannot say if they were Sikh. I was standing by watching and called for help. The ambulance was there within minutes and we rushed him to hospital."

The retired army officer remains on the hit-list of many Sikh militant groups and usually stays in a high-security compound in the cantonment area in Mumbai. He is a Z-category protectee.

General Brar is a decorated soldier who saw action in the 1971 war with Pakistan. He was among the first to enter Dhaka to force the Pakistani army into surrender.

In June 5, 1984, troops including many Sikh soldiers entered the Golden Temple premises in Amritsar to flush out militants led by Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale demanding a separate state for Sikhs called Khalistan. Several soldiers were killed in firing by the terrorists. But General Brar's troops were successful and Bhindranwale was killed.

Operation Blue Star upset many Sikhs. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards a few months after Operation Blue Star. This was followed by several years of terrorism that affected Punjab.

In the 1990s, General Brar wrote a book called Operation Blue Star: The True Story.

Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar, who led Operation Blue Star, attacked in London | NDTV.com