Writer Mod Date & Time 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