Sikh movement



What to know about the Sikh movement at the center of the tensions between India and Canada

  • India’s Sikh independence movement in 1970s and 1980s was suppressed by government crackdown in which thousands of people were killed
  • In 1984, Indian forces stormed Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out separatists who had taken refuge there, killing around 400 people
By AP ·