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Perpetrator-speak
brings out more truths about Op Bluestar
WSN Bureau
 AMRITSAR:
As the brave Sikh nation enters the 25th year of Saka Akal Takht
Sahib Operation Bluestar of 1984, two developments marked it: the
utter silence from the Indian nation state as well as the ruling
Akali hues, and the revelations made by a couple of perpetrators
army generals of India, J.S. Jamwal and K.S.Brar.
Both Jamwal and
Brar have spoken through different media, and each is perched at a
different locations in the way they view the heinous acts of 1984 in
which they were active participants but what is important is the
admission on their part of certain truths, truths that only such
ghastly and ghoulish souls could have brought out.
Gen Brar, a blot
on the name of not just Sikh community but humanity as a whole, of
course, has spoken like a triply-filtered purest form of devil: he
says he has no wish to return to the
Golden Temple
ever, and that he would repeat the Operation Bluestar attack any day
if the same situation persisted. His mastery of repeating the Indian
nation state’s line is so good that he can pretty w ell
be appointed a principal at a school of scoundrels being trained for
butchery.
But
for a chronicler of history, every document is important, including
the documentation of the enemy. It is from historical sources that
blast the Sikh Gurus that we know how the Mughals saw their
humanizing powers as a threat to their Empire. It is from Brar’s
descriptions of Op Blue Star that we now know once again about the
bravery, courage, determination, tenacity and commitment of the
fighters. With all his military training and a soul hardened to
stone, Brar did not realize the tribute he was paying the men and
women who went down fighting in the house of the Guru, at the feet
of the Guru.
And as for
Jamwal, the brahmanical hegemonic rulers of
India ever eager
to subjugate the ethnic minorities and brave nationalities like the
Sikhs should go take a jump, or should we say: “Chullu bhar paani
mein...”
After 24 years,
Maj Gen Jamwal broke his silence as he chose to speak to a section
of the media, his comments widely reported in
Punjab
newspapers. He confirmed that the Indian Army had indeed killed many
Sikh youths in cold blood after capturing them from the
Golden
Temple.
He said he himself refused to join in this inhuman act. Jamwal said
he told two other army officers, who wanted the captured militants
eliminated: “I am not a butcher.”
Jamwal’s words
have set the perfect stage for dragging Indian rulers before a war
crimes tribunal, or any other international justice body. He has
also brought out that while he pressed for relaxation in curfew
after the army attack, it was the then deputy commissioner Ramesh
Inder Singh who opposed it. Ramesh Inder Singh had, in fact,
specially been brought in to facilitate the army attack. He joined
as DC,
Amritsar just a few hours before the Operation was launched, but
when it came to choosing a Chief Secretary, dear Parkash Singh Badal
plumped for this very man.
Not for nothing
are the saffron forces so kind to the Badals.
 Jamwal too tried
to defend the army attack but said “the blame lay with all of us”
and that he tried “to douse fire in the hearts of Sikhs through his
humble and honest approach” but Gen Brar remained unrepentant.
Jamwal also quoted his act of apologizing to a group of Nihang Sikhs
whose dresses were burnt by a JCO in a fit of rage on the outskirts
of the city and said he felt like resigning from his post when
Indira Gandhi rejected his proposal of undertaking kar sewa of the
damaged Akal Takht by the five designated Panj Pyaras arranged by
him through personal efforts.
He has also
tried to indulge in an apologia for the Indian rulers by saying that
the fire to the Central Sikh Library “was totally unintentional as
the Army was not aware of the library at the entrance of the
complex.” He also said Gen Sundarji was a master of failed failure
and had botched up a number of operations under his charge and had
brought disastrous results.
Among many other
revelations, Jamwal claimed that he was instrumental in rescuing
Sant Harchand Singh Longowal and Jathedar Gurcharan Singh Tohra,
then presidents of the Shiromani Akali Dal and the SGPC,
respectively, on their “personal request” amidst Operation Bluestar.
He called the entire Op Bluestar as “ill-advised” and
“ill-conceived”.
He also said
Indira Gandhi had bypassed the then army chief and called in the
Western Army Commander Gen Sundarji for the attack. He said he was
the Garrison Commander at
Amritsar at that
time but his views were not sought. Significantly, he said the
entire tactical planning was fraught with dangerous repercussions
“which were aimed at dividing the countrymen. The nation paid a very
heavy price and has yet to recover from trauma.”
But what is more
interesting is the venom spewed by Lt Gen (retd) KS Brar who prides
himself for having led Op Bluestar, as it is his admission of the
bravery of fighting Sikhs that is important.
Of course, the
man is an ass. “I
don’t think it could have been avoided,” he said of the army attack.
Even his political masters for whom he wags his tail don’t say that
anymore.
“Imagine if
Khalistan was declared and Pakistan had recognized them, they would
have repeated a Bangladesh on us, they would have crossed the
borders, they would have come to the assistance of this newly formed
Khalistan, Punjab police would have deserted and joined in with the
Khalistan force, there would have been a mass exodus of Hindus from
Punjab towards Haryana and Delhi, mass exodus of Sikhs from Delhi
and Haryana towards Punjab. There would have been a 1947 type of
riot situation.” This is the mind process of a general of the Indian
army. How secure do Indians feel after getting a peep of such sick
minds?
Describing the
attack, Brar said; “Eventually, we took an APC. The APC tried to
move on Parikrama,
it … was destroyed. We had the casualties, people had to jump off
the APC and move on foot. Then we use the second armory on the tank
to fire to on to the top of the Akal Takht to frighten those people
or to soften the defenses. But that didn’t succeed…(W)hen there used
to be lull in the battle, on loudspeakers we would going on
appealing to them that even now please surrender…please surrender.
But my Gosh, there was no question of their surrendering.”
Brar spoke to
India’s
recently launched
NewsX TV
channel which asked: “If we could turn the time back
to 1984, would you still do what you did then?” His answer: “Yeah,
yeah!” Did we say something about the man being an ass?
11
June,
2008
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