In the lead-up to this incident, journalists were rounded up from their hotels at 5:00 AM, bussed across the border, and abandoned in the middle of nowhere, though one reporter managed to sneak to a remote location and file dispatches by Telex.
In the lead-up to this incident, journalists were rounded up from their hotels at 5:00 AM, bussed across the border, and abandoned in the middle of nowhere, though one reporter managed to sneak to a remote location and file dispatches by Telex. This action was ordered by a figure whose successor would be implicated along with one of its main perpetrators in the later Bofors scandal, which involved the dubious purchase of Howitzers. The initial charge was thwarted after paratroopers were exposed on the edge of large (*) pools, while tanks were rolled in after an RPG destroyed an army APC. Newly-appointed Army Chief Arun Vaidya was assassinated after this event, and the leader who ordered it was gunned down by her own body guards due to its sacrilegious nature. Indira Gandhi ordered, for 10 points, what 1984 action, an Indian Army raid on the holiest temple in Sikhism?
In the lead-up to this incident, journalists were rounded up from their hotels at 5:00 AM, bussed across the border, and abandoned in the middle of nowhere, though one reporter managed to sneak to a remote location and file dispatches by Telex.
{Operation Bluestar} [accept answers like “{Attack} on the {Golden Temple}” or “{Raid} on {Amritsar}”]