Amritsar

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  2-4-14
  

  Britain admits role in 1984 India temple raid

  The Golden Temple massacre was one of India's bloodiest episodes in recent history.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1-15-14
  

  For India's Sikhs Amritsar casts a long shadow

  by Amit Chaudhuri

  India's politics bears the scars of the 1984 Golden Temple massacre – whether or not Britain had a role.

• SOURCE: NYT
  2-20-13
  

  Should British Politicians Apologize for Colonialism?

  On Wednesday, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain appeared in Amritsar, in the Indian state of Punjab, where he laid a commemorative wreath at Jallianwala Bagh, the site of a 1919 massacre of Indian protesters by British forces that killed about 1,000, according to the Indian government....Here’s what a few historians and political science experts had to say:...Basudev Chatterji, professor of history at University of Delhi:It is something he is doing as a representative of a country. It is a diplomatic and human gesture.It is, of course, a shameful thing to fire at unarmed people.I personally don’t believe in correcting historical wrongs, but it is a perfectly decent thing to do on the part of the British prime minister....