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How and Why word Terrorist was introduced for Sikhs by Indian media during early 1980s?

August 10, 2015 | By Sikh Siyasat Bureau

Calgary, Canada: Senior Journalist (UNI Retd.) Jaspal Singh Sidhu says that Indian Media under well calculated state policy campaigned to built opinion against the Sikh struggle. He said that the word terrorist was introduced for armed Sikh activists in early 1980s to create extreme adverse opinion against the Sikhs.

Addressing a book release ceremony at Calgary on August 2, 2015 S. Jaspal Singh Sidhu recalled an incident that how a foreign correspondent who had come to Amritsar first used the word terrorist for armed Sikh activists in his news copy (report).

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Related Topics: Indian Media, Indian State, Jaspal Singh Sidhu, Sikhs in Calgary

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