Aug
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Texts from Sikh Reference Library still missing
August 20, 2005 | Comments Off on Texts from Sikh Reference Library still missing
More than twenty years after Operation Bluestar and the looting of the Sikh Reference Library by the Indian Army, historic manuscripts taken by the army still have not been returned. The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) has often raised this issue in the past twenty years, passing a resolution every year and writing to the […]
Aug
20
Detainee Held Under Counter-Insurgency Law Speaks Out
August 20, 2005 | 1 Comment
85-year old Gurdev Singh has spent 12.5 years in jail in Punjab, India under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA). TADA, enacted in May 1985, comprised part of the laws instituted during the police counter-insurgency campaign in Punjab. This act lapsed in 1995, but the Indian government continues to detain people under TADA, for offences […]