Pakistan, June 9 -- 42 years on, the desecration of the holy Sikh worship place 'Golden Temple' in Amritsar reminds the world about one of the most heinous minority persecutions of Indian history. Operation "Blue Star" is widely perceived by the Sikh community as the defining moment of state-sponsored oppression in India because it involved a direct, unprovoked military assault on their holiest shrine during a major religious festival. For Sikhs, it represents state-driven violence, historical erasure, and widespread human rights abuses. The Indian government ordered a full-scale military invasion using tanks, artillery, and heavy weaponry into the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) complex in June 1984. By attacking the spiritual and tempor...