Operation Blue Star

(asked on 3rd July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has for an inquiry to establish the extent of the UK Government's involvement in the 1984 attack on the Golden Temple, Amritsar.


Answered by
Nigel Adams Portrait
Nigel Adams
This question was answered on 8th July 2020

We fully appreciate the importance many people attach to information concerning the events at the Golden Temple in 1984. The Heywood review of 2014 worked specifically to establish facts about the UK advice and assistance to the Indian Government. It concluded that UK assistance was advisory, ended several months before the operation, and had limited impact on the tragic events that followed. The Government has concluded that there is no basis to challenge the conclusions of the 2014 review.

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