KHALISTAN EXTREMISM MONITOR
A project of the Institute for Conflict Management
A project of the Institute for Conflict Management
India 03-May-1988
Honouring the families of 134 Sikh Army deserters, the High Priests appealed to Sikhs to be baptized for the creation of Khalsa Raj.
India 04-May-1988
Jagir Singh and Nervier Singh display a sign board of ‘Khalistan office’ outside room No.14 of Parikrama in Golden Temple.
India 11-May-1988
P.S Badal, Suchinda Singh, Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Guryev Singh Badal warn that unless the Government lifts the siege of the Golden Temple Complex within 48 hours, they would march towards the temple on May 14 to restore the right of worship and pay obeisance.
India 12-May-1988
P. S Badal reiterates that party MPs, MLAs, United Akali Dal councillors and SGPC members would march towards the Golden Temple Complex on May 14 to liberate it from security forces.
India 12-May-1988
High priests including Jasbir Singh arrested for attempting to march to Golden Temple.
India 13-May-1988
Pro-AISSF students from GNDU Amritsar, Polytechnic Hoshiarpur, PAU, ITI and GNE Ludhiana, Punjabi University and Thapar College Patiala observe a strike to protest the arrest of high priests and firing at the Golden Temple Complex in Amritsar.
India 14-May-1988
P.S Badal and other leaders court arrest in Chandigarh.
India 15-May-1988
Around 146 extremists surrender from the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
India 16-May-1988
S.S Barnala, Balwant Singh and 220 workers, try to gherao the Raj Bhawan, rounded up by Chandigarh Police.
India 16-May-1988
Dr Kewal Krishan of Congress-I injured in a shootout at Mukerian in Hoshiarpur district.
India 18-May-1988
Around 30 labourers of Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal killed and 12 injured in a shootout at Majat village.
India 18-May-1988
Three extremists commit suicide, two others killed in firing at the Golden Temple. Around 46 extremists surrender to the security forces.
India 20-May-1988
Four persons killed and 20 others injured as a bomb explodes in a HRTC bus near Kandwal barrier.
India 20-May-1988
SGPC decides to withdraw kar-sewa being done by various sants in Golden Temple complex. They remove doors and partition in the parikrama rooms and request the Singh Sahiban not to interfere in its work.
India 21-May-1988
‘Maryada’ (dignity) of Golden Temple is restored.
India 22-May-1988
Golden Temple opens to all devotees.
India 22-May-1988
United Akali Dal (UAD) withdraws its Morcha (Rally).
India 25-May-1988
Tarsem Singh of BKI claims crores of rupees sent by the ISYF World Sikh Organization and Council of Khalistan to Manochahal and Labh Singh to distribute among the families of killed youth and the November 1984 riots victims was used by them to purchase property in UP.
India 28-May-1988
P.S Badal, Sukhjinder Singh, S.S Dhindsa, Surjan Singh Thekedar, Sher Singh Doomcheri and others were detained under the National Security Act (NSA).
India 30-May-1988
SGPC executives dismisses five high priests, and sets. up a task force of 100 ex-servicemen to maintain the sanctity of the Golden Temple Complex. It decides to demolish unwanted structures, not allow anyone to live in the complex, and to observe June 18 as ‘paschatap’ (remorse) divas.