The Khals Bureau: The days of the third Ghalughare have started from yesterday. Today is the fourth day of those torturous days, June 4. This was the fourth day of the military attack on Sri Harmandir Sahib and Sri Akal Takht Sahib. On this day at 5:30 in the morning, bullets started raining from all sides. The screams of the Sangat were drowned out by the sound of bombs and bullets. Mutilated bodies were falling inside the premises. A bomb also fell on the power house that supplies electricity to Sri Darbar Sahib, due to which electricity was also cut off in Sri Darbar Sahib and nearby areas. The bullets and bombs kept going for the whole day. On the same day, the effigy of Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji was taken to the first floor after being seated at about 8 o’clock.
Until June 6, martyrdom events dedicated to Ghallughara will be organized by the Sikh community at various places, but the main event will be held at Shri Akal Takht Sahib on June 6.
History from June 1 to June 10
1 June 1984
It was the first day of the military attack on Sri Harmandir Sahib and Sri Akal Takht Sahib. The Indian Army had surrounded the entire complex. According to eyewitnesses, the army firing continued inside the complex from 12.30 pm to 8 pm. On the first day there was not a single firing from inside.
2 June 1984
After a full day of firing on June 1, there was no firing on June 2. The Indian Army and CRPF had surrounded the entire Punjab. 7 divisions of the army were deployed in the villages of Punjab. Rail and road traffic was completely stopped by imposing a strict curfew. The entire Punjab, including Amritsar, was cut off from the country and the world. The press was banned.
2 June 1984 (Speech of the then Prime Minister)
On 2 June at 8.30 pm, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gave a speech of about 40 minutes on Doordarshan and Akashvani, which was completely opposite to the Prime Minister’s practice. Indira Gandhi’s last words in the speech were, “Don’t shed blood, give up hatred.”
3 June 1984
This day was the martyrdom day of the fifth Patshah Shri Guru Arjan Dev Ji. A large number of Sangat had already reached Sri Darbar Sahib to offer obeisance. On the occasion of Martyrdom Day itself, the government had announced a curfew of 36 hours so that no one could come in from inside or outside. The Sangat was somehow imprisoned inside the Sri Darbar Sahib premises.
4 June 1984
At 5:30 in the morning, bullets started raining from all sides. The screams of the Sangat were drowned out by the sound of bombs and bullets. Mutilated bodies were falling inside the premises. A bomb also fell on the power house that supplies electricity to Sri Darbar Sahib, which cut off power to Sri Darbar Sahib and nearby areas. The bullets and bombs kept going for the whole day. On the same day, the effigy of Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji was taken to the first floor after being laid to rest at around 8 o’clock.
5 June 1984
All day there was fierce fighting on both sides. The Singhs who were competing from within also brought the Indian army to its knees. However, thousands of Singhs were also martyred by the army in the encounter. At around 10 pm, the army fenced tanks in the Sri Darbar Sahib complex, there was a blatant violation of etiquette. The army also targeted the interior of Sri Darbar Sahib. Due to firing, the Head Ragi of Sachkhand Shri Harimandar Sahib, Bhai Avtar Singh Parowal, who was performing the Kirtan service at that time, was martyred on the spot due to bullet injuries. A bullet also hit the holy form of Shri Guru Granth Sahib.
6 June 1984
This day was the last day of fighting on both sides. The troops had demolished a large part of Shri Akal Takht Sahib, the shrine of the Shiromani leadership of the Sikh community, in a devastating attack with tanks. Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Bhai Amrik Singh, General Shubeg Singh and many other great leaders of the Sikh forces were martyred. In the Parikarma of Sri Darbar Sahib, there were only dead bodies in the tank, the water had turned red, the injured were crying, the surviving Singh Singhanis were taken captive by the army and placed in the Parikarma. No one was allowed to drink water. Everyone was in a bad mood because of the heat. Suddenly, a bomb blasted the rags of the entire congregation sitting in the circle.
7 June 1984
On this day, the army was working to remove dead bodies from the circumambulation of Sri Darbar Sahib. Due to the heat, the corpses were swollen, the smell was coming. Many bodies were so mutilated that even the limbs were falling off. The bodies were sprayed with DDT, loaded into garbage trucks and taken to the local crematorium built near Shaheed Ganj Baba Deep Singh. The bodies were cremated en masse, with about 15 bodies placed on each pyre and set on fire without any religious rites.
7 June 1984 (Sikh Reference Library vandalized)
The Sikh reference library, full of great treasures, was safe and sound till the evening of June 6, but in the morning of June 7, the library was found burnt in mysterious circumstances, everything including books, sacred and rare manuscripts of the Gurus were looted.
8 June 1984
A 24-hour curfew was again imposed in the whole of Punjab and contact with the rest of the world was severed. At the end of the afternoon, by cleaning the Darbar Sahib, preparations were made for the lighting of the Guru Granth Sahib. Sikh soldiers came forward to help for this task. Under the leadership of Giani Sahib Singh, the attendants of Shri Darbar Sahib cleaned with tears. Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji was published.
9 June 1984
On this day, every Sikh present inside Sri Darbar Sahib was detained, out of which 365 Sikhs spent 5 years in Jodhpur jails. The news of the military operation was broadcast on BBC London Radio, after which Sikhs living abroad began to protest at Indian embassies. Bhagat Puran Singh, who ran the Pinghalwade service in Amritsar, returned his Padma Shri award to the Indian government in protest. The Sikh soldiers revolted in the whole country. Sikh soldiers from different places left their barracks armed with weapons and marched towards Amritsar. Encounters took place at many places, in which many Sikh soldiers were martyred and others were arrested.
10 June 1984
It was the tenth and last day of the third ghallughara. The blood-drenching guns fell silent at the revered shrine for people around the world. The army also made moves. The Sikh community considers it as unforgivable, unforgivable and unforgivable.
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