Sikhs Kill 34 Hindus On Two Buses, Bringing Two-Day Toll To 72

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Bringing Two-Day Toll To 72
DILIP GANGULY July 8, 1987
CHANDIGARH,
India (AP) _
Sikh
terrorists
massacred
34 Hindus
on two
buses in
Haryana
state
Tuesday
night, the
day after
Sikh gunmen
killed 38
Hindu
passengers
on a bus in
neighboring
Punjab,
officials
reported.
″The modus
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the killings
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as the one
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inside
Punjab,″
said Munish
Chandra
Gupta,
interior
minister of
Haryana.
He said an
unknown
number of
Sikhs halted
a state-run
Haryana
Roadways
bus at about
8:30 p.m. on
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When a
second bus
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along from
the opposite
direction,
the gunmen
stopped it
and killed 30
of its
occupants,
Gupta said.
Eighteen
people in the
two buses
were
wounded, he
said. The
wounded in
the Monday
attack
totaled 32.
Gupta
quoted
police as
saying the
Sikh
attackers
Tuesday
were in a car
and a jeep
and that one
bus was
carrying 60
people. One
bus was
headed for
Sisra, a grain
center, and
the other for
New Delhi,
about 135
miles to the
AP NEWS southwest.
″There is no
doubt that
Sikh
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bent upon
creating as
much
trouble as
possible in
Haryana,″
the minister
said.
Haryana,
predominantly
Hindu, lies
between
New Delhi
and Punjab,
which is a
rich
northern
agricultural
state where
Sikhs form a
slight
majority.
Militant
members of
the sect,
which
constittues a
small
minority in
all of India,
are fighting
for a
separate
Sikh nation
in Punjab.
Sikh-Hindu
relations,
uneasy for
years,
became
inflamed on
AP NEWS June 4, 1984,
when the
federal
government
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troops to
attack Sikh
militants in
the Golden
Temple
complex in
the Sikhs’
holy city of
Amritsar.
More than
1,000 Sikhs
were killed
in two days
of fighting.
The
government
claimed Sikh
extremists
were using
the temple
as an armory
and the base
for terrorist
attacks
against
Hindus.
On Oct. 31,
1984, Prime
Minister
Indira
Gandhi, who
had ordered
the temple
assault, was
assassinated
outside her
home in
New Delhi
and two of
her Sikh
bodyguards
were
AP NEWS charged in
the killing.
Mrs. Gandhi
was
U.S. News World New succeeded
by her son,
Rajiv
Gandhi.
Monday
night in
Punjab, Sikh
gunmen
hijacked a
bus crowded
with Hindu
pilgrims.
They killed
38, including
five women
and four
children,
and declared
that more
Hindus
would die in
the fight for
independence.
It was the
third bus
attack in
Punjab in a
year and the
worst yet in
the state,
where
terrorists
AP NEWS have killed
almost 500
people in
1987.
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police were
put on full
alert
throughout
northern
India to
prevent both
more
terrorism
and revenge
attacks on
Sikhs by
Hindus,
which have
occurred in
the past
after Sikh
terrorist
actions.
President
Zail Singh, a
Sikh, called
the slaughter
″inhuman
and ghastly.″
He canceled
a trip to
Punjab he
had
scheduled
for
Wednesday.
Prime
Minister
Rajiv Gandhi
said: ″The
inhuman
butchery of
bus
passengers
should
AP NEWS redouble our
resolve to
fight the
extremists
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perpetrators.
″
Punjab
police said
five gunmen
shouting
slogans
seized the
bus late
Monday
night
outside
Chandigarh,
drove it to a
field and
opened fire
on the
occupants.
The 76
passengers
and bus
crew were
bound for a
Hindu
shrine in the
Himalayas in
Uttar
Pradesh
state. Two
brothers
were taking
their
mother’s
ashes to
scatter on
the holy
Ganges
River.
Survivors
said the
attackers
AP NEWS shouted:
″Make sure
all Hindus
are dead 3/8
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more blood
if more
Sikhs are
killed 3/8,″
they said,
referring to
police
pursuit of
Sikh
extremists
in Punjab.
During the
five-minute
shooting
spree, they
said, 28-
year-old
women
Savitri Devi
threw
herself over
her husband
and 5-
month-old
daughter,
sacrificing
her life to
save them.
Reporters
who visited
the scene
later found
women’s
broken
bracelets, a
child’s toy
train, a flute
and candy
scattered
about.
The
AP NEWS terrorists
escaped.
Punjab
Police Chief
U.S. News World New Julius F.
Ribeiro said
the
Khalistan
Commando
Force, the
main Sikh
terrorist
group,
claimed
responsibility
in a note
that read:
″The Indian
government
has been
killing Sikhs
almost every
day. Hindus
have not
raised their
voice against
the killing,
so we have
decided to
carry out
this killing.
For every
Sikh killed
we will kill
100 Hindus.″
Khalistan,
″Land of the
Pure″ in the
Punjabi
language, is
what Sikh
militants
would call
their nation.
Scattered
AP NEWS attacks on
Sikh-owned
shops were
reported in
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state. A
dozen buses
were stoned
or their tires
slashed.
Chandigarh,
Shimla in
nearby
Himachal
Pradesh and
many towns
in Punjab
and Haryana
were hit by
general
strikes in
protest.
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