Yesterday,
I was watching a documentary on "operation bluestar" and the only question that popped up in to my mind was:- "who is at fault?"
Is it the person who was respossible for lighting the flame of rebellion in to the hearts of the sikhs in favour of a separate sikh-land? - jarnail singh bindranwale....One man's freedom foghter, another man's terrorist.
Or is it the iron lady for not bowing down to the demands of the internal threats the country was facing and in the first place, she being the one to have given bindranwale the power to commit henious crimes with impunity.
Was it the sentinel who gunned down indira gandhi just because he thought that religion came first and duty,... a distant second?
Or was it the hindu mob which butchered sikhs because one sikh killed a gandhi? Even if it was a mob, chances are that it could have been congressmen, once again proving the country that the demands of bindranwale for a separate sikh state were legitimate and "HINDUS-taan" neglected its own sikh sons.
Was it the leutinent general kuldeep singh brar who ordered tanks to storm in to the temple and who still thinks he restored the sanctity of a sacrosanct place of worship by driving terrorists out of it!!
Or the sikhs who can never forget the humiliation faced by them and their highest place of worship. and ofcourse, in another round of not only humiliation but also brutality, when 20000 of these men were dragged out of their homes in front of their wives and mothers and burnt alive!!
But one thing is clear. This unfortunate episode has left a very deep scar in to the minds of the affected. And for people like us, it has left a question to answer- "who is at fault?"
I dont have an answer, and neither does the Indian govt. Not even a single person has been held accountable for the loss the operation bluestar and its aftermath conjured. The people affected have lost all hopes of justice, even in a country where for the last 8 years the prime minister has been a sikh.
I was watching a documentary on "operation bluestar" and the only question that popped up in to my mind was:- "who is at fault?"
Is it the person who was respossible for lighting the flame of rebellion in to the hearts of the sikhs in favour of a separate sikh-land? - jarnail singh bindranwale....One man's freedom foghter, another man's terrorist.
Or is it the iron lady for not bowing down to the demands of the internal threats the country was facing and in the first place, she being the one to have given bindranwale the power to commit henious crimes with impunity.
Was it the sentinel who gunned down indira gandhi just because he thought that religion came first and duty,... a distant second?
Or was it the hindu mob which butchered sikhs because one sikh killed a gandhi? Even if it was a mob, chances are that it could have been congressmen, once again proving the country that the demands of bindranwale for a separate sikh state were legitimate and "HINDUS-taan" neglected its own sikh sons.
Was it the leutinent general kuldeep singh brar who ordered tanks to storm in to the temple and who still thinks he restored the sanctity of a sacrosanct place of worship by driving terrorists out of it!!
Or the sikhs who can never forget the humiliation faced by them and their highest place of worship. and ofcourse, in another round of not only humiliation but also brutality, when 20000 of these men were dragged out of their homes in front of their wives and mothers and burnt alive!!
But one thing is clear. This unfortunate episode has left a very deep scar in to the minds of the affected. And for people like us, it has left a question to answer- "who is at fault?"
I dont have an answer, and neither does the Indian govt. Not even a single person has been held accountable for the loss the operation bluestar and its aftermath conjured. The people affected have lost all hopes of justice, even in a country where for the last 8 years the prime minister has been a sikh.
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