What kind of a sick ungrateful world is this when people don't even appreciate a hijacking!!!
EFL
A Sikh man who once hijacked an Indian airliner says he is still waiting for recognition and gratitude from his community for his action. Tejinder Singh hijacked an Indian Airlines aircraft 19 years ago, to protest against the Indian army attack on the Golden Temple - Sikhism's holiest shrine. When the army stormed the Golden Temple to flush out armed separatists in June 1984, angry adherents of the faith protested against the action in a variety of ways. Hundreds of Sikh soldiers deserted. Prominent members of the community resigned top government positions. Others returned awards and decorations bestowed upon them by the Indian Government. Then only 19-years-old, Tejinder Singh remembers being furious at what he and many others like him, still view as a deliberate attack on the Sikh faith. "Every man expresses what he feels in one way or the other," he told BBC News Online. "Hijacking the Indian Airlines plane was our way of telling the world that the Sikh people were being subjected to grave injustices within their own homeland."
| So was bumping off a Ghandi or two... |
On 24 August 1984, Singh and six others commandeered an Indian Airlines flight, which was scheduled to fly from the northern city of Chandigarh to Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.
| "I just can't understand it. It was just an airliner filled with screaming non-combatants..." |
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