SavageTC Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 A SWORD fight broke out in a Sikh temple in northern India on Friday, injuring at least 10 people. The violence erupted at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on the 30th anniversary of a controversial army assault on Sikhism’s holiest shrine which killed hundreds on June 6, 1984. At least 400 people were killed in the attack on the temple by Indian troops that was codenamed Operation Blue Star and was aimed at flushing out armed separatists demanding an independent Sikh homeland. “Today we were supposed to have a solemn remembrance for the martyrs of 1984 so what has happened is very sad,” said a spokesman for a radical Sikh outfit called the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) whose supporters were involved in the clashes. “The Temple has once again been dishonoured today,” the spokesman Prem Singh Chandumajra told reporters. Two groups of Sikhs sporting blue and saffron turbans chased each other with swords, spears and sticks on the marbled staircase of the revered shrine in Punjab state. Police alleged the clashes erupted after members of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) shouted slogans for an independent homeland from the temple rostrum and insisted they be allowed to speak first at the microphone. “Members of a radical outfit confronted the temple’s task force, triggering the fight. Some 10 people have been injured, two of them are being treated in hospital,” a police officer in charge of temple safety told AFP. Amritsar police chief Jatinder Singh Aulakh said later Friday the situation was under control. “The situation has been defused and things are under total control,” Aulakh said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. The police chief said extra security had been deployed inside the temple to ensure there were no further clashes. The army’s operation enraged Sikhs who accused the troops of desecrating the faith’s holiest shrine and still remains a divisive issue. India’s prime minister Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her own Sikh bodyguards in October 1984 in revenge for the operation. Her assassination triggered mass anti-Sikh riots in which some 3,000 people were killed, many of them on the streets of New Delhi. On Thursday, supporters of several radical groups carried out a “Genocide Remembrance Parade” around the streets of Amritsar, hailing the “martyrs” of 1984. Despite the outrage over the Golden Temple raid, support for an independent “Khalistan”, or the land of the pure, has waned in the last three decades. The landlocked region shares borders with Pakistan and restive Kashmir. However support for the independence movement remains strong among some members of the Sikh diaspora in Britain, Canada and the United States. Kuldip Singh Brar, the commander of Operation Blue Star, was seriously injured in 2012 when he was stabbed on a London street. A Sikh gang was found guilty of the attack which was to avenge the 1984 raid. Amarinder Singh, a prominent political leader from the state, condemned Friday’s violence at the shrine. “It is very shameful. There is no provision for law and order there (at the temple),” Singh, of the Congress party, told reporters. “It is unfortunate that such a thing is happening at our religious site.” What I find crazy about this is the fact that dozens of people were running round trying to **** each other up with swords but NO ONE DIED. Sure ten people were injured but only two went to hospital. Crazy shiz lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crangs Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Ceremonial swords, probably so blunt they couldn't even cut a tomato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SavageTC Posted June 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Ceremonial swords, probably so blunt they couldn't even cut a tomato Lol your probably right but sharp blades or not you could still stab someone pretty easily. Just looks so chaotic with so many people running round with ****ing swords Lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crangs Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 lol, you know they are just hacking at each other like savages. No time for thrusting and stabbing in the melee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cashflow Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Buncha ladies. I would've knocked off four of them with a pocket knife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StompGrind Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 I would have though a lot of people would be hacked up with blood everywhere but Crang's is right those are only ceremonial swords. It's still amazing more people weren't seriously injured even from people just freaking and stampeding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waikru Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 I am disappointed. I was expecting some highlander ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunchBag Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 i bet if you gave 500 westerners plastic swords and a temple to fight over there would have been more than 10 people injured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chons Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 Turban Wars III: Revenge of the Sikh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carnages Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 Ultimate Punjabi Sword Fighting Championships This could be huge! and it is safer than MMA Rules. 1. Only slashing allowed, no stabs 2. No eye pokes 3. Turban towel length 6ft. maximum 4. No attacking Turban Scoring based on effective striking and effective turban wrapping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PakaL Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 Leonitous went off that day 1 spartan sihk held off the whole army.http://youtu.be/ebd8EKG8_3w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunchBag Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 they all that pro at sword fighting nobody could even touch the other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetshadeX Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 I am disappointed. I was expecting some highlander ****. And you would have if these guys had been carrying this: (Cutting power demo starts at 2:45 and 5:50 is insane) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PakaL Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 See what happens when people carry things around and never use them? It's like Americans and brains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartacus__ Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 Have you guys ever watched Midnight Express? Well, it's in a turkish prison, but according to this film, they are used to stabbing each other, as long it's below waist, otherwise it'd be a murder attempt and they just don't do it lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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