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20th ANNIVERSARY OF OPERATION BLUESTAR

June 5, 2004 | Comments Off on 20th ANNIVERSARY OF OPERATION BLUESTAR

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Indian Army’s attack on the Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) complex in Amritsar and 41 other Sikh gurudwaras throughout Punjab.  The army invaded the complex, the center of Sikh religious and political life, and forty-one other major Sikh gurudwaras with tanks, canons and troops, and imposed a statewide curfew. […]

Best Bakery Retrial Set for June

June 5, 2004 | Comments Off on Best Bakery Retrial Set for June

On June 7, a sessions court in Bombay will begin the retrial of the Best Bakery case, arising from the murders of 12 Muslims during the Gujarat pogroms of 2002: The Additional Sessions Judge, Abhay Thipsay, has been appointed by the Bombay High Court to conduct the re-trial. P.A. Kamat, registrar in-charge for the Sewri […]