The World - News from Aug. 12, 1986
Hindu demonstrators in Pune, India, damaged six shops belonging to Sikhs to protest the assassination of India’s most decorated soldier. The victim, retired Gen. Arunkumar Shridhar Vaidya, 60, was cremated with full military honors as his wife, wounded in the attack, and three daughters wept. Callers to an Indian news agency claimed responsibility for the killing on behalf of militant Sikh separatists. Vaidya had received numerous threats over his role, as chief of staff, in the army’s 1984 assault on the Sikhs’ holiest shrine, where revolutionaries were in hiding.
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