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Jallianwala Bagh a ‘shameful event in British history’: David Cameron 16 killed, over 100 injured as terrorists carry out three blasts

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Despite repeated intelligence inputs about a terror strike in India in the aftermath of Afzal Guru's hanging, the Andhra Pradesh government apparently failed to protect its citizens. What's surprising is that Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad where at least 16 people were killed and more than 100 injured when terrorists carried out three blasts on Thursday last, had been on the terror radar for the past few months. This was revealed during the interrogation of one of the suspects of last year's Pune blasts. The Delhi police special cell had arrested four IM suspects Syed Maqbool, Irfan, Imran and Asad - for their alleged role in the Pune blasts. During interrogation, one the suspects, Irfan, said that he and Maqbool had carried out a recce of certain places in Hyderabad, including Dilsukhnagar, in June 2012. In fact, Maqbool was arrested from his hideout in Hyderabad in October

after he went underground following the Pune serial blasts last August. In April 2012, Imran had introduced Maqbool to the Bhatkal brothers of the Indian Mujahideen (IM). Their interrogation revealed that just before the Pune serial blasts, Maqbool, Irfan, Imran and Asad had discussed their plan of car-

rying out an attack on the Buddhist shrines at Bodh Gaya, Bihar. But since the Bhatkals had wanted to avenge the death of Qateel Siddiqui, another IM operative who mysteriously died in Pune's Yerwada jail, they decided to carry out blasts in Pune instead. The investigation also revealed that Maqbool had

trained other members of the group in putting together the improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The investigation further revealed that Maqbool was instrumental in the formation of the Indian Muslim M o h a m m a d i n Mujahideen, a terrorist organisation, in 1999. Continued on page 26

On a visit to Amritsar, British Prime Minister David Cameron described the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 as "a deeply shameful event in British history." "We must never forget what happened here," he said of the shooting of nearly 1,000 peaceful Indian protestors by British troops on the orders of General Reginald Dyer. "This was a deeply shameful act in British history, one that Winston Churchill rightly described at that time as 'monstrous.' We must never forget what happened here and we must ensure that the UK stands up for the right of peaceful protests," Cameron wrote in the visitors' book at the memorial site.

Before that, he paid his respects at the holiest shrine for the Sikh religion, the Golden Temple. Cameron is the first UK prime minister to voice regret over the Jallianwala Bagh shooting. In 1920, Winston Churchill, then the secretary of state for war, called the Amritsar massacre "a monstrous event", saying it was "not the British way of doing business". On a visit to Amritsar in 1997, Queen Elizabeth called it a distressing episode, but said history could not be rewritten. However, her husband, Prince Philip, delivered a massive controversy by opining that the death count of the shooting had been "vastly exaggerated." Continued on page 26

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