It’s a sore that still festers. Now, documents apparently revealing a British role in the 1984 storming of the Golden Temple by the Indian army to flush out Sikh extremists have refocused attention on one of the most turbulent events in India’s recent history.
The UK’s visible and vibrant Sikh community is naturally outraged. “The word ‘betrayal’ has been thrown around, and I think that’s how some of us feel,” Gurinder Singh Josan, of the Sikh Council UK, told Outlook. The papers were discovered by journalist Phil Miller among a tranche of British archives papers declassified after 30 years. Miller has been researching for years British forces’ involvement in Commonwealth countries on his Stop Deportations blog,
The most explosive revelation comes in a 1984 letter from Brian Fall, private secretary to then foreign secretary Geoffrey Howe, to Hugh Taylor, his counterpart under home secretary Leon Brittan, describing the visit of an SAS officer and potential...
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