Before the operation started, General Brar walked around the Golden Temple in civilian clothes, and saw the militants and the barricades. His former superior, retired Major General Shabeg Singh, who led the militants, saw him making rounds, and knew that he was up to something.[14] According to General Brar, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), which is supposed to have the managerial control of the temple, had lost the control of the situation.
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In the 1990s, General Brar authored a book on his version of Operation Blue Star, titled Operation Bluestar: The True Story.[35] In an interview, he said that after reading his book, a Canadian Sikh who had earlier threatened him with death, realized that "the people who had let the Sikhs down were some Sikhs and the internal politics of the Akalis", and told him that he had "cleaned the temple". He also offered to pay for translating the book into Punjabi language so that more people could read it.[7] The book's publishers did the translation later, and the book ran into several reprints.
Brar reveals that he was called in to command the operation on June 1. on the very day he was to leave for Manila on a holiday. He denies that the army had rehearsed weeks in advance on a model of the temple.It Was An Illegitimate OperationThe Government avoided taking the ultimate step until the violence reached a crescendo. Brar says there was no conflict in his or General Vaidya's or Lt - General Sundarji's mind about the legitimacy of the Government order.The Way The Army Entered The Place Of Worship Was ImproperBrar asserts that the sanctity of the holy shrine had been defiled already by Bhindranwale and his militants. Hence, the army action was a purge. In a recent precedent, in November 1979, 300 - odd Muslim fundamentalists seized the Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest shrine, in Mecca. Saudi forces blasted the doors of the mosque, recapturing it.Operation Black Thunder Proved That The Earlier Storming Had Used Too Much ForceOperation Blue Star was a different ball game. The militants were sure that the Government would not call in the army for fear of alienating the Sikh community. But when it did happen, they decided to fight it out with their enormous firepower. In 1988, afraid of a repeat of Blue Star, the militants surrendered. Besides, there was no Bhindranwale. no Shabeg Singh to provide leadership.Yet, minimum force was used in Blue Star, claims Brar, even at the cost of heavy army casualties. The unprecedented high ratio of officer rank and jco casualties proves, he argues, that officers were in the forefront to ensure minimum damage to the complex. The troops had explicit orders not to return fire from Harmandir Sahib. Writes Brar: "It requires moral courage of the highest order to be able to control one's fury when one sees one's comrades being mowed to death without retaliating."The Sikh Library Was Wantonly DestroyedIn Brar's account, on June 6, during a respite for the soldiers in the parikrama, a few grenades landed near them. As they took cover, they were tired upon. The troops lobbed some grenades in that direction. Within minutes there were flames on the first floor. The Sikh Library was on tire. It may have been started by the matches used by the militants for igniting their country - made grenades or by the grenades lobbed from below. Fire - fighting teams rushed in but couldn't do much due to firing by militants.Prisoners Were Shot Dead With Their Hands TiedThis myth originated in' a despatch tiled by Brahma Chellaney for an overseas publication. Chellaney, who had managed to stay back in the city, claimed to have evidence that bodies were sent for post - mortem with their hands still tied behind their backs. In Brar's version, those taken prisoners had their hands tied behind to prevent them from escaping. One prisoner who'd had his hands freed while he eased himself, suddenly tried to overpower the sentry. Others in his group too tried to escape. In a reflex action, the second sentry opened fire in which a few people were killed.The Soldiers Smoked And Drank Liquor In The Golden Temple ComplexWhile such rumours were spreading, Brar himself was perplexed when head priests began to show him empty bottles of rum with the Canteen Service Department marking. He deputed some of his juniors to investigate. One morning, an elderly woman was noticed placing such a bottle in the parikrama. Soon after, says Brar, securitymen spotted two more women smuggling empty liquor bottles into the temple. When the priests were apprised of this, the accusations against the armymen stopped.Innocents Were Massacred By The ArmyBlaming the militants, Brar relates an incident after the surrender of 350 men, women and children in the Teja Singh Samundri Hall. Before they could be moved out, some militants lobbed grenades into the open hall from a balcony and also fired short bursts. In the ensuing crossfire many innocent devotees were killed or wounded.
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Chandigarh/Amritsar, Oct 2Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Capt Amarinder Singh today condemned the attack on Lt Gen Kuldeep Singh Brar in London on Sunday.Maintaining that his position on Operation Bluestar was well known to everybody in and outside Punjab, Amarinder said the attack on Gen Brar was highly condemnable and those guilty of it must be brought to book.Amarinder blamed CM Parkash Singh Badal for creating the situation which led to the attack saying that the establishment of memorials commemorating the event did not allow old wounds to heal.Amarinder pointed out that the persons who attacked Gen Brar were young and might not even have been born at the time of Operation Bluestar. They must have been provoked by the setting up of the Bluestar memorial.The SGPC has maintained a silence over the attack on Lt-Gen Brar. In its brief statement, the premiere Sikh body said, "The SGPC has not issued any reaction to the attack on Lt-Gen Brar and, hence, the media should refrain from publishing anything on the SGPC's behalf." Meanwhile, noted lawyer HS Phoolka has condemned the attack.
Entire book is a gripping and spine-chilling account of how the above mentioned two operations gave fruit to utter disregard that had great impact on the Nation. The ripples of the entire sequence of events leading upto Operation Blue Star which led to the assassination of the Prime Minister and the subsequent Sikh genocide in Delhi are still felt across this Nation. As the author says this would not be the last such act where political parties try to pitch one community against the other.
If the entire conspiracy starting from Op-1 and ending with the Sikh genocide could be termed as a wheel, there are many wheels within a wheel which the author tries to unravel in a very simpler manner. The author offers some pragmatic solutions to the issue at the end of the book.
Native village of Lt Gen Brar prays for his early recoveryMoga Monday, Oct 8 2012 IST function print() NewWindow = window.open('/news/printer.asp?story=/news/articles/India/20121008/2078648.html', '_NewWindow1', 'toolbar=1,location=0,status=0,menubar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=530,height=600 ,left=150,top=0') COMMENTS PRINT (function(d, s, id) var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); (document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Tweet !function(d, s, id) var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (!d.getElementById(id)) js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); (document, "script", "twitter-wjs"); googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1469165980608-1'); );Residents of Patto Hira Singh, sub divisional headquarters of Moga district and native village of Lt General Kuldeep Singh Brar, prayed for his early recovery. Lt General Brar, who led the Indian Army's operations on the Golden Temple in June 1984, was attacked in London by unidentified assailants when he was coming out of a hotel in London. Similar prayer was also held yesterday at the residence of Jagmohan Singh Brar, the Lt General's cousin brother. Residents said General Brar's father Digamber Singh Brar, who retired as Major General, also led an operation against Nizam Hyderabad in 1948 when Nizam refused to merge his State with Indian Union. He was the first to enter into the Hyderabad State when the Nizam's Army surrendered before him. He died in Chandigarh at the age of 98 in 1998. Lt General K S Brar's grandfather Hira Singh Brar also retired from the Army as Captain. He had five sons -the eldest Rajinder Singh Brar and the youngest Digamber Singh Brar. Lt General Kuldeep Singh Brar and Tirlochan Singh Brar are two brothers. Tirlochan Singh Brar also retired as Lt General from the Indian Army and is now settled in Kerala. Born in 1934, Kuldeep Singh Brar moved to Boarding School of Doon School Dehradun at the age of five. After training, he joined the Maratha Light Infantry in 1954. During 1971 war against Pakistan, he commanded an infantry and was in the first batch which entered Dhaka on December 16, 1971. He was honoured with Vir Chakra. He coordinated the Operation Blue Star along with General Sunderji, then head of the Western Command and Ranjit Singh Dayal. Blue Star was convtroversial because of the causalities involved and also because of the decision of entering into the Golden Temple Complex just after Guru Arjan Devji's martyrdom day. Both Jarnail Singh Bhinderanwale, the Sikh militant leader who was killed by Army troops during the Operation Blue Star and Lt General Kuldeep Singh Brar - belonged to the Moga district. The Lt General, in his book 'True Story', explained that the operation was not opt only to save Sikhs' most sacred shrine from militants but also to dispel declaration of Khalistan. UNI XC SV RP1532 NNNN -- (UNI) -- 08DR19.xml 2ff7e9595c
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