Via Jakara Movement:June 2: The Indian army carried out operations throughout Punjab. Hundreds of th
Via Jakara Movement:June 2: The Indian army carried out operations throughout Punjab. Hundreds of thousands (some estimates put the number at nearly 300,000) of troops flooded the state, cutting off transit into and out of Punjab. Troops sealed every border and imposed a media blackout by arresting or expelling foreign journalists. The lone foreign correspondent remaining in Amritsar was Brahma Chellaney of the Associated Press, who eluded authorities, and whose reports alerted the world to the abusive excesses that the Indian Army took during the assault. The Indian Government even ordered electrical outages in key cities, including Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Patiala, and other important locales to reduce chances for any communication. -- source link
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