Significant1984

Operation Blue Star

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Amritsar · Golden Temple · Punjab · India

Estimated casualties

410 – 3.0Kestimated dead

Official toll 410 killed; Sikh groups dispute and cite figures in the thousands.

SOURCEscholarly

An Indian Army operation from 1 to 10 June 1984 to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and armed militants from the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar. The assault on Sikhism's holiest site caused official casualties of 410 (disputed as far higher) and led to Indira Gandhi's assassination later that year.

Belligerents2

India
Khalistani militants (Bhindranwale)

Conflict graph

PART OFInsurgency in Punjab, India

Sources

Wikipedia: Operation Blue Star
UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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