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WORLD, Page 41World NotesINDIABlood and Ashes
Nearly three years after they were sentenced to death for the
1984 assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, gunman
Satwant Singh, 25, and conspirator Kehar Singh, 53, were hanged
last week in a New Delhi jail. Satwant Singh was one of the two
Sikh bodyguards who shot Mrs. Gandhi; the other was killed in the
shootout that followed. Five months earlier the Prime Minister had
ordered the Indian army to rout Sikh terrorists holed up in the
Golden Temple at Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine. Said an
unrepentant Satwant: "I wish that I am born again and again and
each time lay down my life for it."
To head off retaliation by Sikh extremists, the government
stepped up security in the capital and three northern states,
including the Sikh stronghold of Punjab. The cremated ashes of the
executed were temporarily locked away. To little avail. In the
Punjab village of Badowal, militant bands of Sikhs raided the homes
of Hindu workers, apparently selected at random, killing at least
ten by gunfire.