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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/margaret-thatcher-golden-temple-raid-support-letter

Margaret Thatcher gave full support over Golden Temple raid, letter shows

Former PM sent personal note to Indira Gandhi saying Britain supported India's unity in face of demands for Sikh homeland

Rajeev Syal and Phil Miller

The Guardian, Wednesday 15 January 2014 18.26 GMT

Margaret Thatcher gave her Indian counterpart Indira Gandhi Britain's full support in the immediate aftermath of the 1984 Golden Temple raid, according to private correspondence seen by the Guardian.

The then British prime minister sent a personal note saying that Britain supported India's unity in the face of demands for a separate Sikh homeland and disclosed that police were investigating threats against the safety of Indian diplomats.

The letter will cause further debate about Britain's role in the raid among the worldwide Sikh community and senior MPs across the political spectrum after it was disclosed on Monday that the Indian government had made an apparent request for advice from the SAS in the months leading up to the raid.

It will form part of an investigation launched by the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, on the orders of David Cameron to determine the British government's actions over the raid on Sikhism's holiest site in Amritsar.

The Indian government says about 400 people were killed when Gandhi sent troops into the temple complex in June 1984 in the six-day Operation Blue Star. Sikh groups, which have called for an inquiry into the British role in "one of the darkest episodes in Sikh history", put the death toll in the thousands, including many pilgrims.

In what appears to be the first letter to Gandhi after the raid, sent on 30 June 1984, Thatcher wrote: "These have been anxious weeks for you, involving difficult decisions. I have followed closely your efforts to restore calm there, and I very much hope that the 'healing touch' for which you have called will open the way to a peaceful and prosperous future in that troubled region."

The letter, which is in response to two sent by Gandhi on 9 and 14 June, appears to show that the Indian prime minister had expressed worries that Sikh "extremists" could use Britain as a base. Thatcher wrote: "I well appreciate your concern about the potential security threat posed by extremists outside India. We are determined not to allow our traditional freedoms to be abused by those who seek to use violence for political ends."

In an apparent reference to death threats against Gandhi which had been reported in the British media, the UK prime minister who died last year wrote: "We have made sure the police are aware of these statements and they are investigating them."

Thatcher also reassured Gandhi that British police were "devoting considerable resources" to safeguarding Indian government personnel in Britain.

A few months after the letter was sent, Gandhi was gunned down by her own Sikh bodyguards in a claimed act of revenge. This triggered communal violence which led to the deaths of thousands of Sikhs across India.

Other documents in the file make clear Whitehall's interest in lucrative arms sales to India at this time. A secret Foreign Office briefing dated 22 June 1984, which was sent to Downing Street, stressed that British "commercial interests" in India were "very substantial. It it a large and growing market for both commercial and defence sales. British exports in 1983 exceeded £800m and since 1975 India has bought British defence equipment worth over £1.25bn," the document claims.

Cameron on Wednesday appeared to downplay the likelihood of an inquiry finding evidence that Britain was to blame for the raid. Labour's former deputy chairman Tom Watson suggested the British might have played a part in the assault on the temple in exchange for the Indians agreeing to purchase a fleet of helicopters in a £65m deal.

Watson said to Cameron: "On your Amritsar inquiry, instead of ordering the civil servants to investigate, why don't you just ask lords Geoffrey Howe and Leon Brittan what they agreed with Margaret Thatcher, and whether it had anything to do with the Westland Helicopter deal at the time?" Cameron dismissed any suggestions of a conspiracy.

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Its clear now that that Bluestar was a planned massacre , organised months or maybe years in advance. This makes Brar a war criminal , this information was not available to the Jury. Retrials happen when new evidence emerges. Maybe our many lawyers out there can assist.

True, and as a way of gesture OR whatever one might say, such as trying to heal some open wounds - Britain along with UN should declare Mr. Brar as a war criminal to be tried in World Court of Justice.

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For years Sikhs have said it but no one believed us. Now the truth is coming out on it's own. The attack on the Darbar Sahib was planned long before the actual attack. Gen Sinha of the Indian army had already declared that plan and military training for attacking had already started as early as 1983.

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do you think this will make sikhs here in the UK radicial? I for one have always said never to trust the British, but yet so many of our own people asslick the British which must stop. I dont have anything against the people of the country, but I have a deep hate for Britain now and can understand the muslim mentality of hating Britain.

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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh Ji

"In the name of freedom, Thatcher cultivated close relationships with some of the worst regimes on Earth, including Saddam Hussein’s Iraq (pre-Kuwait invasion), Suharto’s Indonesia and Pol Pot’s Cambodia. But even her relationship with Suharto, a perpetrator of genocide whom she described as “one of our very best and most valued friends,” cannot be compared to the closeness expressed in her friendship with Augusto Pinochet.

If we were to accept Thatcher’s rhetoric of the defence of civilisation, democracy and freedom, Pinochet would seem an unlikely ally, let alone a close friend and confidant. Following the United States directed destabilisation of the Chilean economy, Pinochet came to power in a bloody CIA-backed coup in 1973, overthrowing the legitimate democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. He immediately suspended all political activity and the constitution.

Following the coup, a Chilean army death squad named Caravana de la Muerte, the “Caravan of Death,” flew aeroplanes which dropped the mutilated corpses of political opponents into the sea. Despite minimal military opposition to the coup, Pinochet’s government waged a war of savage repression against the Chilean people, and thousands of Chileans were murdered because of their political affiliation.

Many more trade unionists, leftists and their families were not murdered but faced tortures so unimaginably gruesome that death would have been preferable for them. In an estimate widely considered to be overly conservative, the Valech Commission concluded that over 40,000 Chileans were subject to torture by the Chilean secret police."

Much of the military hardware used to support regimes was supplied by UK manufacturers. In 1980, a year after she took office, Thatcher lifted the arms embargo on Pinochet – a flow of weapons, including fighter-bombers, followed.

"If (wo)man is judged by the company (s)he keeps, then Thatcher - self-professed friend to generals Pinochet, Suharto and Zia, ally of Saddam Hussein, admirer of the Saudi royals, soft on apartheid - must be judged a champion of despotism and dictatorship, not of freedom or liberty. The historical record is so clear and indisputable that to believe otherwise is wilful blindness."

Some interesting articles;

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/margaret-thatcher_b_3042342.html

http://canvas.union.shef.ac.uk/wordpress/?p=2068

http://www.globalresearch.ca/thatchers-tyrants-the-tanks-the-guns-the-christmas-cards/5331905

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This was published June 10th 1984, even then it was known of British and Indian involvement in Bluestar. Makes Indian statements and Cameron's that India acted alone untrue already before an enquiry starts.

Mary Anne Weaver, a British correspondent of the ‘Sunday Times’ noted back in 1984:

“Last weeks assault on the Golden Temple took place after months of preparations of the Indian army, which included advice from British experts in counter-insurgency. Sources in Delhi say that two officers of the Indian secret service, Gary Saxena and R.N. Kao, of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) made several trips to London to seek expertise. The Indian Government then selected 600 men from different units and sent them to rehearse the assault on a life size replica of the Golden Temple, built at a secret training camp in the Chakata Hills, about 150 miles north of Delhi. The assault troops were alerted to invade the temple no fewer than five times during the past five months, but each time Mrs Gandhi vetoed the invasion. A case of nerves’, according to a Senior aide”.

-Sunday Times, London, June 10th, 1984

Gary Saxena was later elevated to the rank of Governor in Jammu and Kashmir.

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