The World - News from April 14, 1986
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More than 5,000 Sikh militants chanted slogans for an independent nation in Punjab at an anti-government rally in the Golden Temple at Amritsar. The militants, some carrying swords and spears, called on India’s 14 million Sikhs to “arm themselves to snap the shackles of slavery.” They accused the Hindu-majority government of depriving the Sikhs of their rights and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of allowing the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 after his mother was killed by Sikh bodyguards.
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