Word: sant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Sikhs started their agitation, it was mainly political, with no religious overtones. Sant Bhindranwale provoked no violence [WORLD, June 18]. Indira Gandhi and the Hindu majority in India are to blame for the slaughter that the army committed in the Golden Temple. Sikhs worldwide have never been more united. Even "moderate" Sikhs now demand a separate state, because they know they cannot get justice from the Hindu majority...
...latest casualty figures: 582 dead and 753 wounded. Among the dead, shot through the right temple according to one general on the scene, was Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the fanatical leader of the extremists...
...most fanatical leader of Sikh extremists, Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, 37, who had provoked the violence, lay among the dead. Just weeks before, he had vowed to defend to the death his supporters' demands for increased religious and political autonomy. "Let them come," he had said. "We will give them battle. If die we must, then we will take many of them with...
Responsibility for the new wave of killings was claimed by the Dashmesh Regiment, a previously unrecognized group of Sikh terrorists that counts moderate Sikhs as well as Hindus and the government among its sworn enemies. The Dashmesh, which may be connected with the fanatical Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, has vowed to murder one political figure a day until the government lifts a ban imposed late last month on a radical Sikh student organization...
...years ago, an extreme right-wing Sikh faction emerged, thus turning the protest aggressive and radical. Its fanatical leader, Sant Jarnail Bhindranwale, 36, now commands at least 1,000 armed followers from the most sacred room of the Golden Temple. Hindus have begun to fear that the demands of the more heavily armed Sikhs will be met as Bhindranwale's movement gains momentum. Even when Gandhi assured them that they would not be let down, Hindus organized to combat the Sikh threat...