Word: amritsar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delhi jail. Satwant Singh was one of the two Sikh bodyguards who shot Mrs. Gandhi; the other was killed in the shootout that followed. Five months earlier the Prime Minister had ordered the Indian army to rout Sikh terrorists holed up in the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine. Said an unrepentant Satwant: "I wish that I am born again and again and each time lay down my life...
Worshipers in Amritsar's Golden Temple, the holiest shrine in Sikhdom, were interrupted by an unsettling warning from loudspeakers on the shrine's periphery. Outside the temple complex, police commandos and paramilitary forces stood by to reclaim the holy place from the Sikh extremists who had seized control three months before. Pilgrims were advised to leave. Soon afterward, 300 commandos swept into the outer offices of the complex, arresting student leaders. Then, with another 700 troops, they fanned out onto the marble pathway surrounding the main temple shrine, where the militants were holed up. The search for the extremists, punctuated...
...militants demanded the release of all Sikhs imprisoned after the Indian army's assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar in June 1984, and reinstatement of dismissed Sikh soldiers. In the past two weeks, at least 34 people, Hindus and Sikhs, have been slain in Punjab as a result of Sikh terrorist violence...
...Punjab city of Amritsar, an uneasy truce was holding at week's end between militant and moderate Sikh groups that had earlier exchanged gunfire at their most sacred shrine, the Golden Temple. The groups were fighting for the right to rebuild a revered part of the temple complex called the Akal Takht, which was severely damaged in a June 1984 siege by the Indian army. That military action, in which at least 600 Sikhs died, inflamed unrest and ultimately led to Indira Gandhi's assassination...
...Amritsar, Punjab, there was gladness as Sikh militants celebrated Mrs. Gandhi's death. At the Sikhs' holiest shrine, the Golden Temple, militants shouted, "Indira Gandhi deserved to die!" They presented medals and gifts of cash to families of the two gunmen accused of the slaying, one of whom was killed by guards during the attack. The surviving gunman and two conspirators also charged with the murder are now on trial in New Delhi...