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PARTITION: Tape 48 255MODEM 255MODEM Mar 19 10:27
TAPE 48
Side A
WILDTRACK
6 > market-type street wildtrack recorded outside
Jallianwalabagh in Amritsar
to 23
Dr Man Singh NIRANKARI - retired eye surgeon; turbanned and devout
Sikh; lives in a spacious house in the centre of Amritsar, and was
in the city in 47; family hails from Rawalpindi - interviewed at
his home in Amritsar on March 19 97
30 - born in what's now Pakistan in 1911; in 47 working in
Amritsar as eye specialist
38 > anecdote about Muslim gang outside hospital, believes
organised by ML
75 - the ML's real slogan was: we want Pak and Hs and Ss must
leave Pak, 'prob they though Am may be included in Pak,
but really speaking [no one else] thought it cd go to
Pak'
97 - trouble in Amritsar started by ML; 'they were more organd
at that time ... and they thought thaty wherever they
are even in minority they wd be showing their strength'
108 - ML rioters had weapons, 'daggers, sometimes firearms
also'
120 > returns to anecdote re Muslim gang, and treatment of
injured Hs and Ss
136 > anecdote re partiality of M surgeons and medical staff
157 - [re viol against Ms] 'when the trains reached Am r'way
stn, we found quite a number of people who were killed
on the train, and quite a no injured, so that hd
reactions naturally on this side, and here the Akaiis
and Jan Sangh people became active in killing and
injuring Ms' {{{cd lead into Shingara Singh}}}
170 - [Am station] 'several times I went there and found
that this happening, and we removed them in amb'ces
to the hosp ... when the train was coming, so many
relatives of the people were gathered ... they thought
their reins might be coming; when they found that a
no of them are injured and killed, they were raising
slogans, they were agitated, they were making noises
that we must also kill the Ms'
186 - 'the floor of the trains were almost comp covered with
blood and the injured were lying there crying and weeping
for help ... most of them were attacked with sharp
weapons, and occ'ly you wd find a person with bullet
wounds, mostly with sharp weapons, h'hld weapons, and
also with blunt instruments, lathis, iron bars, like
this'
201 - 'mos of them were robbed, they cd not feting many things
so they brought curr notes, gold ornaments, they were
v easy prey, and most of them were robbed of their
valuables ,.. quite a large no of women were abducted,
young girls, pretty girls, they were abducted ... later
on they were brought back, some of them, and some of them |
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