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I have always felt that Operation Bluestar would have incur a lot less casaulties than then 1000 dead figure!
There were stupid ROE imposed by politicians who had no freaking clue how the reality was back then. For example, a babu in the MoD ordered that all soldiers who were gonna assault the temple had to go bareless as not to desecrate the temple(like bombing the place to bits was not descrating enough!) to offend any Sikh voters in his master's district.
As a result, the renegade general took advantage and ordered his minions to shoot at the feet which as then caused combat crippling casualties among hundreds of the troops who felled to the ground and were unable to move out of the line of fire, resulting in massive bleeding to death.
That was one of the most stupid and irresponsible decisions ever made and the general who let the order stand should have been shot. The fact that he did not try to circumvent the order or disobeyed that order which was unlawful by any military accounts has portrayed him to a boot licking general who had no military expertise.
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