Lt. General Kuldeep Singh Brar attacked in London

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One of the Greatest Indian Patriot Lt. General Kuldeep Singh Brar, who led Operation Blue Star against Sikh militants holed up inside the Pavitra Golden Temple in 1984, has been stabbed and injured in London.

The Indian High Commission has confirmed that three men assaulted General Brar, 78, outside his hotel and stabbed him with a knife. He has been operated upon now and is now recovering at home. Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar is returning home to India.

Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar's wife was with him; she was pushed to the ground but was not injured. She told a News Channel , "We were walking down Oxford Circus at 10.30 pm in the night. Three bearded men attacked him and tried to slash his throat. We cannot say if they were Sikh. I was standing by watching and called for help. The ambulance was there within minutes and we rushed him to hospital."

The retired army officer remains on the hit-list of many Anti-India Sikh militant groups and usually stays in a high-security compound in the cantonment area in Mumbai. He is a Z-category protectee. In New York, Indian External Affairs Minister Krishna said that the Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar should have informed the High Commission of India so that security could have organised for him. Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar was in London on a private visit.

Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar is a decorated soldier who saw action in the 1971 war with Pakistan. He was among the first to enter Dhaka to force the Pakistani army into surrender.

On June 5, 1984, troops including many Sikh soldiers entered the Golden Temple premises in Amritsar to flush out militants led by Terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale demanding a separate state for Sikhs called Khalistan. Several soldiers were killed in firing by the terrorists. But Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar's troops were successful and Bhindranwale was killed.

Operation Blue Star upset many Sikhs. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two **** bodyguards a few months after Operation Blue Star. This was followed by several years of terrorism that affected Punjab.

In the 1990s, Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar wrote a book called Operation Blue Star: The True Story.
 
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The attack on Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar is a matter of shame for the Indian Government who should have given him security despite of he being not in India. He is hated by the Sikh community as he went against the Sikh for his motherland in Operation Blue Star in 1984. It is the duty of Indian Government to provide him full security irrespective of whether he is in India or not.
 
both sides of the story need to be heard and understood to come to a grounded conclusion....And after doing so i am not proud but dont feel any grief or shame towards him or the government for not providing him with security.....its good to have opinions and im glad to read yours...but its always best to analyze and assess all the information ...and maybe if you do so....indira gandhi will actualy seem more like a *** to you than those two sikh body gaurds.... [ Message Moderated ]
 
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