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	Amardeep Singh: Operation Bluestar 20 years later: the Search for Explanations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Operation Bluestar 20 years later: the Search for Explanations
		June 6th is the 20th anniversary of Operation Bluestar, where the Indian Army invaded the Golden Temple in Amritsar, in an effort to eradicate Sikh militants (or terrorists, take your pick) holed up within.
		Bluestar was a bad day, though really the anti-Sikh riots after Indira Gandhi was assasinated were the worse trauma.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/06/operation-bluestar-20-years-later.html (832 words)

	Operation Blue Star - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Blue Star (June 3 to June 6, 1984) was the Indian military operation at the Harimandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab, the holiest temple of the Sikhs.
		The operation was undertaken in the cover of the night, and due to the immense firepower and sophisticated weaponry in the possession of the militants, the Indian army suffered heavy casualties.
		A S Vaidya was COAS at the time of this operation and was later assassinated for his role in the operation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Blue_Star (1329 words)

	Operation Bluestar [5 June 1984]
		The operation was to commence at 10 pm, with the simultaneous launch of the Paras and SFF.
		The operations indicated the need for a specialised unit for such operations and led to the formation of the National Security Guards.
		Thus the next time around it was the NSG which was involved in Operation Black Thunder I and II at the Golden Temple along with the Punjab Police.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /alienz/lit/bluestar.html (4800 words)

	Special Operations.Com
		Operation Black Thunder I was conducted on 30 April 1986 when the NSG commandos stormed the Golden Temple.
		Compared to Operation Bluestar in 1984, however, this was a tame affair; no weapons were discovered and nobody was killed.
		Operation Black Thunder II was conducted on 12 May 1988 when 1000 NSG commandos had arrived at the temple.
	www.specialoperations.com /Foreign/India/NSG.htm (1681 words)

	OPERATION BLUESTAR
		Operation Bluestar: The Attack on the Sikh's by Indian Armed Forces
		Operation Bluestar, which began in the wee hours of June 6, 1984, was like a dagger through the heart for Sikhs everywhere.
		A large number of Sikh soldiers, enraged by rumours that the Golden Temple had been damaged (the temple itself remained untouched, though the Akal Takht was damaged), deserted the armed forces.
	allaboutsikhs.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1628 (199 words)

	Operation Bluestar : A Premeditated Design Re: Apology for “Operation Bluestar”
		Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon, Ph.D. Many an ideologue of the ruling class in India is too embarrassed by the emerging evidence on the infamous Operation Bluestar to face the undeniable facts, and wish that the whole episode were forgotten.
		First, a complete fl-out of the gross socio-political and economic injustice done to Punjab in the framing of the Reorganisation Act of 1966, under which Punjab was made a truncated sub-state and its water and hydel power resources were largely and unconstitutionally diverted to non-riparian states.
		Few chroniclers have recorded that all government of India measures, including Bluestar, were a means to camouflage the reality and divert public attention from the truth of exploitation and injustice done.
	www.sikhnet.com /Sikhnet/discussion.nsf/SearchView/221A762CC7E4084887256CE200487664!OpenDocument (1915 words)

	'Operation Bluestar conducted in haste' - Sify.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		'Operation Bluestar', which was launched on June 5, 1984, to flush out heavily-armed militants from the Golden Temple complex, was the type of mission that needed tremendous physical and psychological preparation.
		Kirpal Dhillon, who confronted the aftermath of 'Operation Bluestar' after he took charge as DGP, Punjab, on July 3, 1984, feels that the date chosen for launching the operation was improper as June 5 was the martyrdom anniversary of Guru Arjan Dev.
		However, a slow operation may have generated a groundswell of protest and hence the need for a rapid surgical procedure.
	sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13853403 (475 words)

	General Krishnaswamy Sundarrajan, Indian Army
		In 1971, he made valuable contributions to the planning and conduct of operations as Brigadier General Staff of corps in the Rangpur sector in Bangladesh.
		Sundarji shot into prominence as the commander of the force responsible for "Operation Bluestar" in June 1984.
		Operation Bluestar, launched to flush out Pakistan sponsored Sikh militants from the historic Golden Temple, had left Sundarji, who led it, a "changed" man, according to his wife Vani in his recently released book.
	www.geocities.com /siafdu/sundarji.html (2066 words)

	Operation Bluestar
		Operation Blue Star, the invasion of The Golden Temple begins with tanks of the 16th Cavalry Regiment of the Indian Army moving to enclose the Golden Temple complex.
		In the early hours of the morning the troops discover the bodies of what was thought to be Sant Bhindranwale and his closest followers in the basement of the Akal Takht.
		Elsewhere across Punjab hundreds of Sikhs were killed in the army operation at the same time which saw 42 Gurdwaras raided at the same time as the Golden Temple, including high casualties at Moga, Mukatsar, Faridkot, Patiala, Ropar and Chowk Mehta.
	www.neverforget84.com /history.php?id=operation-bluestar (1465 words)

	`Operation Bluestar' left Gen Sundarji a changed man -- Wife
		NEW DELHI, MARCH 5: `Operation Bluestar', launched to flush out Sikh militants from the historic Golden Temple in 1984, had left Gen Krishnaswamy Sundarji, who led it, a "changed" man, according to his wife Vani.
		"After Operation Bluestar, he was a changed man. Sombre, his laughter all but gone," writes Vani Sundarji in the introductory chapter on the late general's book Of some consequence - A soldier remembers, released recently.
		Though the late General did not live to give his comments on `Operation Brasstacks', Asia's biggest ever combined armour, mechanised, artillery and air power war-game undertaken in February-March 1986, his wife sheds some light on his role in the exercise which almost brought India and Pakistan on the verge of a war.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000306/ina06001.html (484 words)

	Operation Bluestar
		This was to be a volunteer mission in which any one had the option to refuse to participate.None of the many Sikh officers, JCOs and ORs, opted out.
		26 Madras operation had stalled, but was now gaining ground between the eastern and southern wings.
		The sniper was spotted on the terrace and was gunned down.Two companies of 10 Dogra joined 9 Kumaon, in the flushing operations.
	www.sikh.com.au /blue/ops.html (4667 words)

	Operation Bluestar, 05 June 1984
		The operation was to commence at 10 pm, with the simultaneous launch of the Paras and SFF.
		The operations indicated the need for a specialised unit for such operations and led to the formation of the National Security Guards.
		Thus the next time around it was the NSG which was involved in Operation Black Thunder I and II at the Golden Temple along with the Punjab Police.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /LAND-FORCES/Army/History/1970s/Bluestar.html (4759 words)

	Kamat's Potpourri: Operation Bluestar
		On the night of June 5, 1984 the Indian Army stormed the Golden Temple complex to flush the Sikh dissidents who were opposed to the Indian rule in the state of Punjab, and demanding a separate nation which they named Khalistan.
		The commanders of the operation had to bring in tanks to support the commandos, and were met with anti-tank missiles fired from within the temple complex.
		Five months after Operation Bluestar, on October 31, 1984, Indira Gandhi, who had ordered the crackdown, was assassinated by her bodyguards, who practiced Sikh religion, apparently in revenge for attack on Akal Takht.
	www.kamat.com /indica/current_affairs/operation_bluestar.htm (367 words)

	THE UNIQUE SPIRIT OF SIKHSIM
		"Operation Bluestar" in the Government's term, connoting a necessary military operation to flush out terrorists and recover arms from the Golden Temple, the implication being that it was an unavoidable cleansing act of purification.
		The contrast between "Operation Bluestar" and "Ghallughara" as two different perceptions of the same reality is symptomatic of the wide gap between the official version and the people's recollections of what really happened at the Golden Temple when the army attacked it in June 1984.
		One of the purposes of "Operation Bluestar" according to the White Paper, was to flush out the terrorists from the Golden Temple complex.
	www.panthkhalsa.org /raj/raj_june84report.php (12509 words)

	projects. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Operation Bluestar was the code name for our project in Cpr E 211.
		Operation Bluestar is an integrated user interface for a patrol car.
		The microcontroller operates the lights, car odometer, glove compartment lock, and query/response modes (to talk with “headquarters”) simultaneously.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~randhawa/pages/course_projects.htm (759 words)

	Operation Bluestar, 20 Years On
		To flush the terrorists and their masterminds out of the Golden Temple complex, the army launched what is possibly its most controversial action, Operation Bluestar, under the command of Major General Kuldip Singh Brar (who later retired as lieutenant general).
		But the operation, which began in the wee hours of June 6, 1984, was like a dagger through the heart for Sikhs everywhere.
		A large number of Sikh soldiers, enraged by rumours that the Golden Temple had been damaged (the temple itself remained untouched, though the Akal Takht was damaged), deserted the armed forces.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/jun/03spec.htm (589 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Operation Bluestar remembered
		Many Sikh militants were killed during Operation Bluestar in 1984, when troops entered the Golden Temple in Amritsar in Punjab.
		The short speech of the chief priest was, however, a disappointment for Sikh hardliners were expecting him to declare a dead militant leader, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, as a martyr.
		Mr Bhindranwale was killed in the 1984 operation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/south_asia/779809.stm (299 words)

	Lament of an Operation Bluestar soldier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hoshiarpur (Punjab), June 7 (IANS) Twenty-two years after Operation Bluestar - the anti-terrorist June 1984 army operation at the Golden Temple - some soldiers who took part in it feel they have not got their due.
		Tears roll down his vacant eyes as he talks about the operation and his life thereafter.
		'No benefits were offered to soldiers who got handicapped in Operation Bluestar, to set up some business, like petrol pump or jobs for children, on the lines of India-Pakistan or India-China wars,' laments Jagpal.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /india/printer_1170710.php (282 words)

	“Blind Men of Hindoostan” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Nayar was the Additional Director General of Military Operations at Army Headquarters in 1984.
		Operation Bluestar was totally unwarranted and a mistaken step.
		It is his wife, Vani who writes that Operation Bluestar changed Sundarji, and his laughter was all but gone.
	www.sikhreview.org /august2000/retro.htm (1562 words)

	Panthic Weekly: 'OPERATION BLUESTAR': The untold story
		"Operation Bluestar" in the Government's term, connoting a necessary military operation to flush out terrorists and recover arms from the Golden Temple.
		It is the Jodhpur detainees who are eye-witnesses to the Army operations in Amritsar in June 1984, not the relatives we met.
		We were questioned, whether any machine-gunnists were operating from Darbar Sahib to which we said that they were welcome to inspect the premises themselves.
	www.panthic.org /news/125/ARTICLE/2525/2006-06-04.html (9911 words)

	Operation Woodrose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Bluestar was followed by the expansion of the ambit of the Indian Army's operation in Punjab.
		In order to clear the countryside of "militants", the army was awarded powers equivalent to martial law for the duration of the operation, codenamed Woodrose.
		Independent critics claim that many innocent civilians were killed, along with the militants arrested, tried, or killed or executed in encounters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Woodrose (169 words)

	Operation Bluestar: CBI to find 'missing' books
		There have been allegations that books or manuscripts, which the army reportedly removed during the Operation, have not been restored to the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday in a written statement.
		All the articles and documents were handed over either to the SGPC or to the government of Punjab except a few documents, which were objectionable and thus destroyed, and a few others filed in the court, the minister said.
		This was the army's most controversial action, which was known as Operation Bluestar.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/mar/22books.htm (233 words)

	Re: Operation Bluestar - The Untold Story and other articles
		It’s a fact even admitted by General Brar in his book Operation Bluestar that an attack was planned since 1982, years before Bhinderwale was there.
		Even than in Operation Bluesar it was the government who came to attack, not the other way round.
		Lets not forget the simple fact that for weeks after bluestar the army occupied Darbar Sahib when Bhimnderewle and the other Sikhs were all Shaeed.
	www.sikhnet.com /Sikhnet/discussion.nsf/ca32680024ff68b487256a08007e86d8/58B89CB0F0C98EF28725701C004BE7EF!OpenDocument (1454 words)

	March on eve of Operation Bluestar anniversary held (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carrying saffron flags and provocative “expensive-coloured” placards against government, with pictures of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and of damaged Akal Takht, the activists marched in protest against the Army operation and the government and in memory of those killed in operation in 1984.
		This is the first march after the Army operation that had been allowed in spirit of democracy.
		She stated that SGPC was interacting with architects to finalise the design of memorial “Yadgar-e-Shaheedaan” in memory of those killed and that the foundation would be laid shortly.
	www.sikhsangat.org /publish/printer_82.shtml (407 words)

	SSNews
		Slogans for Justice and a separate Sikh state were raised inside the Golden Temple complex to mark the 22nd anniversary Tuesday of Operation Bluestar, the June 1984 Indian Army assault on the Golden Temple Complex and 40 other Gurdwaras throughout Punjab.
		Unmindful of the sedition cases instituted against him following a similar speech at the Bluestar anniversary last year, Mann insisted that 'azaadi' (independence)" was the right of the Sikhs and reiterated his demand for "Khalistan as an independent state between India and Pakistan".
		The function ended with devotees taking copies of posters and calendars bearing images of rememberance of the destruction caused during Operation Bluestar, alongside portraits of Bhindranwale and Shabeg Singh, the former army major general who helped plan and build the militant defences before Operation Bluestar.
	www.sikhsangat.org /publish/article_1085.shtml (392 words)

	Lessons from grievance - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		After Operation Bluestar made Bindranwale temporarily into a Sikh hero, vendors of religious paraphernalia used to sit on the pavement outside the serais and sell pictures of him.
		As the purpose of my visit was to search for signs of people in the temple who might be commemorating the 22nd anniversary of Operation Bluestar (June 6, 1984) the rain hampered my investigations.
		Their bodies were found in the forecourt of the Akal Takht on the morning of June 6 and Operation Bluestar was over.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jun102006/panorama154853200669.asp (984 words)

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