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* Thousands of innocent pilgrims, children, females, aged people, who
got encircled in the Golden Temple during Operation Bluestar were made
to die through starvation and thirst. The whole of Punjab was converted
into a vast jail by clamping curfew on the entire area. The army bulletin
branded all Amritdhaaree's as terrorists.
* Indian army desecrated the Gurdwaras and committed such atrocities on
the Sikhs that even the soul of Ahmed Shah Abdali might have felt ashamed
of.
* The targets of army guns were none else but religious persons, devotees,
pilgrims, ladies, old people, children or some militants whom the Indian
government
deemed as terrorists.
* No neutral observer was allowed to take stock of the situation.
* The injured during the attack on the Golden Temple were subjected to
extreme partiality. Whereas every assistance and facility was made available
to the injured army personnel, there was no such provision for the wounded
belonging to the other side.
* The number of prisoners taken was rather small. There is ample scope
for doubt that the Indian army had thought it better to eliminate the
thousands of people seized in the Golden Temple instead of taking them
prisoners or having to provide them with medical assistance.
* No need was felt to perform religious rites for the dead pilgrims and
devotees.
* Before consigning the dead bodies to flames, no effort was made to identify
them. No relatives were informed.
* No dead bodies were handed over to the next of kin. In such a situation
only the dead or those wishing to be dead could be present at the last
rites.
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