Word: sikhs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Worshipers in Amritsar's Golden Temple, the holiest shrine in Sikhdom, were interrupted by an unsettling warning from loudspeakers on the shrine's periphery. Outside the temple complex, police commandos and paramilitary forces stood by to reclaim the holy place from the Sikh extremists who had seized control three months before. Pilgrims were advised to leave. Soon afterward, 300 commandos swept into the outer offices of the complex, arresting student leaders. Then, with another 700 troops, they fanned out onto the marble pathway surrounding the main temple shrine, where the militants were holed up. The search for the extremists, punctuated...
Authorities agree that the only way to prevent terrorist attacks is through timely intelligence. President Reagan has maintained that 126 terrorist missions were foiled in 1985. Federal officials said 23 of those were in the / U.S., including plots to kill Libyan dissidents and efforts by Sikh extremists to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi during a visit last year...
Last week was supposed to have marked the traditional festivities celebrating the rites of spring. Instead, Indians suffered a convulsion of Hindu-Sikh violence that claimed at least 41 lives. The most alarming incident occurred in the northwestern state of Punjab, where at least seven people were killed and 27 injured when Sikh militants tried to assassinate the moderate Punjabi Chief Minister Surjit Singh Barnala during a political rally...
...militants demanded the release of all Sikhs imprisoned after the Indian army's assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar in June 1984, and reinstatement of dismissed Sikh soldiers. In the past two weeks, at least 34 people, Hindus and Sikhs, have been slain in Punjab as a result of Sikh terrorist violence...
Jiwa contends that those responsible for the crash are a cabal of Vancouver- based Sikh extremists. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, says Jiwa, have identified at least a dozen people responsible for the explosion and are only tying up loose ends before moving...