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Beant Singh and Satwant Singh were Sikh bodyguards of then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, and on 31 October 1984 they assassinated her in her garden, putting thirty three bullets in her chest and abdomen. Kehar Singh, an Assistant in the Directorate General of Supply and Disposal, New Delhi, was tried and executed for conspiracy in the plot of the Indira Gandhi assassination, carried out by Satwant Singh and Beant Singh. He was hanged in Tihar Jail on January 6, 1989. Beant Singh was the nephew of Kehar Singh.〔http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19850211&id=L8UUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=i-EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6864,2583058〕 The assassination was motivated by Operation Blue Star, by which Indian Armed Force personnel assaulted the Golden Temple Complex at Amritsar. It was carried out starting on 3 June 1984. ==The military action against the Sikh "Golden Temple" in Amritsar== Operation Blue Star was launched by the Indian Army, to eliminate Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers who had sought cover in the Amritsar Golden Temple Complex. The operation was launched in response to a deterioration of law and order in Punjab.The roots of Operation Blue Star can be traced from the Khalistan Movement. The Khalistan Movement is a political Sikh anti-nationalist movement, that wants to create an independent state for Sikh people, inside the current North-Western Republic of India. The Sikh militants within the Harminder Sahib were led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and former Maj. Gen.Shabeg Singh. Maj. Gen. Kuldip Singh Brar had command of the action, operating under General Krishnaswamy Sundarji, of the Indian army. The Golden Temple compound and some of the surrounding houses were fortified. The Statesman reported on 4 July that light machine-guns and semi-automatic rifles were known to have been brought into the compound, by the militants.〔Kuldip Nayar and Khushwant Singh, Tragedy of Punjab, Vision Books, New Delhi, 1984, page 79〕 Faced with imminent army action and with the foremost Sikh political organisation, Shiromani Akali Dal (headed by Harchand Singh Longowal), abandoning him, Bhindranwale declared "This bird is alone. There are many hunters after it".〔Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale - Life, Mission, and Martydrom by Ranbir S. Sandhu, May 1997〕 Time magazine reported (about Amritsar) that:〔http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,949867,00.html Time, 7 November 1983.〕 "These days it more closely resembles a city of death. Inside the temple compound, violent Sikh fanatics wield submachine guns, resisting arrest by government security forces. Outside, the security men keep a nervous vigil, all too aware that the bodies of murdered comrades often turn up in the warren of tiny streets around the shrine." These violent events which led to the desecration of the holy shrine Golden Temple / Harminder Sahib caused outrage amongst the Sikh community, who claimed that the attacks were pre-planned and that anti-Sikh violence which followed was government orchestrated. Beant Singh was killed by gunfire at the scene of the assassination. Satwant Singh was arrested and Kehar Singh was later arrested for conspiracy in the assassination.〔 Both were sentenced to death and hanged in Tihar jail in Delhi.〔http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_the-accused-did-not-want-to-be-defended_1304802〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kehar Singh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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