Many individuals as well as Sikh Organizations and media outlets have been leading with the story that the British Government has sold out the Sikhs and has broken the trust and loyalty that was once very strong. To hear that Britain, a country that 83,000 Sikhs died for in the World Wars, where 109,045 Sikhs were wounded, had a hand in the massacre of 20,000+ civilian Sikhs in Operation BlueStar alone has crippled the loyalty and love Sikhs once had for Britain.
The inquiry by Sir Jeremy Heywood and the statement given earlier in the week by Rt. Hon. William Hague some say has not put the emotional community at ease. Let’s look at the inquiry and statement in depth…..
On a side note: I am approaching this article with my Gursikhi ‘hat’ on rather than my Tory hat. So in the following analysis I will stick to the facts and where something has not been confirmed I will state this. I was not alive in 1984 and thus will look at this from an unbias approach and pick out the important parts of the report, statement and questions.
I’ve split this post into analysis of the inquiry report (part 2), Statement in House of Commons and House of Lords (part 3) and a conclusion (part 4) – apologies it is long but no-where near as long as reading the 14-page actual report and the transcripts of the 3 hours of Q&A in Parliament.
If anyone prefers to read the PDF version please see – https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1JJhiSnyzHuNlRmS0VNbDZ3cmM/edit?usp=sharing
This is the worst thing i have read on sikh24.com. Yes lets beg the English to recognize 1984…. what a joke. It is very clear that they the British have never stopped being the puppet master even after India’s independence. Yes lets beg the government that had a hand in operation blue star to recognize it . How stupid and cowardly are our ppl become like sheep they are herded to follow. It is disgusting and saddening. If this is all that is left , sikhs have no hope. They don’t deserve justice.