Sikh Golden Temple Memorial Reopens Old Wounds in India

THE GUARDIAN
By Jason Burke

The Golden Temple in India

INDIA---The sacred pool of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Pilgrims walk slowly around the four sides of the sacred pool. This is no ordinary shrine. Work has begun on a new shrine in one corner of the temple complex. It is a memorial dedicated to those who died in perhaps the most controversial single event in recent Sikh history, the storming of the Golden Temple by Indian security forces in 1984 after it was occupied by Sikh militants under the command of a seminary student turned extremist, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. [link]