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After Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed by Sikh bodyguards in New Delhi last October, a group of militant Sikhs demonstrated their approval at a rally in Manhattan by chanting "Who's the next? Rajiv Gandhi!" Last week the FBI charged that three Sikhs were planning to carry out that threat by killing Gandhi when the new Prime Minister visits the U.S. June 11 to 15. The FBI said the plot, along with another alleged conspiracy to assassinate Bhajan Lal, chief minister of the northern Indian state of Haryana, was the work of a Sikh extremist group...
According to an FBI affidavit filed last week, the agency videotaped encounters between an undercover agent and Gurpartap Singh Birk, 33, along with other Sikhs who allegedly wanted paramilitary training. Birk was also looking for a hit man to assassinate Gandhi and do away with Bhajan Lal, the affidavit states. Birk and three others were arrested in early May in New Orleans outside the hotel where Bhajan Lal was staying...
...because it doesn't have the unpleasant personal connotations of Nazi Germany or Vietnams, colonialism offers some of the most exciting pop history. The characters are far enough away that we can empathize with either side; we can root for the Englishman in Lawrence of Arabia, the native in Gandhi...
Even if authorities manage to stave off a backlash, the terrorist strikes were a severe setback for the youthful Prime Minister. Since he led his Congress (I) Party to an overwhelming victory in last December's parliamentary elections, Gandhi has made significant concessions in an attempt to bring Sikh political leaders to the negotiating table. He released Sikh leaders who had been held in detention since the army assault on the Golden Temple, ordered an independent inquiry into the massacres that followed his mother's death, and lifted a ban on the All-India Sikh Students' Federation, the most radical...
Referring to those earlier troubles, Gandhi had assured the All-India Congress Committee, the party's equivalent of a U.S. political convention, at its meeting in New Delhi on May 4 that "no amount of agitation can take away the power given to us by the people." But he warned that the turmoil was an indication that opposition forces were reorganizing for confrontation with the government after the drubbing they took in the December elections. Some political analysts have gone further, suggesting that the pattern of violence is disturbingly reminiscent of the beginning of the opposition's 1973 campaign against...