Human rights abuses in Punjab, India According to the US State Department, and the Assistant Inspector General of the Punjab Police Intelligence Division, the KCF was responsible for the 1995 assassination of Chief Minister Beant Singh. Human rights abuses in Punjab, India From 1984 to 1994, the state of Punjab in northern India was engaged in a power struggle between the militant secessionist Khalistan movement and Indian security forces. The Indian government responded to the escalating Punjab insurgency by launching Operation Blue Star in 1984, storming the Harmandir Sahib, or Golden Temple complex in Amritsar—the center of Sikh religious and spiritual life, where some militant groups
Sikh holocaust of 1762 not lay his hands on the elusive bands of Sikhs, he determined to attack their holy city Amritsar, The Harimandir Sahib was blown up and the surrounding pool filled with the entrails of slaughtered cows. Hearing of this event Baba Deep Singh, an elderly scholar of the Sikhs living at Damdama Sahib, south of Amritsar, was stirred to action. As leader of one of the Sikh divisions entrusted with the care of the temple he felt responsible for the damage that had been done to it and announced his intention of rebuilding the Harmandir Sahib. He set out his forces