Was Bhagat Singh Tortured And Shot Dead?

[HSD1]

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20051211/spectrum/main1.htm

Came across the above and was just wondering if anyone knows anything more about it. Sorry if this may have been discussed before.

[tonyhp32]

The gullibility of some people is astounding. To think that the British govt would have amounted such an elaborate operation just to satisfy the family of a minor British police official is pure foolishness.

It is interesting that when we have just less than three decades from when the government massacred thousands of unarmed pilgrims at the Darbar Sahib which has never been fully researched and yet people have the time and money to research events which happened 8 decades ago!

[amardeep]

It would not surprise me if it was true.

[Mithar]

It is interesting that when we have just less than three decades from when the government massacred thousands of unarmed pilgrims at the Darbar Sahib which has never been fully researched and yet people have the time and money to research events which happened 8 decades ago!

LOL so true. But if such a book were to be written, it would not be as widely sold because discussion on 1984 is still considered taboo, especially if someone does not support the government's version of events.

Edited January 8, 2011 by Mithar

[dalsingh101]

LOL so true. But if such a book were to be written, it would not be as widely sold because discussion on 1984 is still considered taboo, especially if someone does not support the government's version of events.

It's a quagmire. No side is willing to admit ANY wrongdoing on their part. I know for a fact some dodgy blokes got involved with the movement later on and did some messed up stuff. Sure, government plants did this in a big way too, but not everyone who tainted the movement was a government plant. Too many apnay who are proKhalistan are unable to critically analyse events and see where the movement went wrong in terms of discipline and coordination between kharkoos.

Then you have the issue of the language used by Sant ji in describing Hindus and their leaders. We can understand it being Panjabis and Sikh but when you translate this to the wider world they will just see it as a ranting fanatic due to their preconceptions and conditioning.

With Bhagat Singh, the issue is more clearcut. He was against a foreign occupation of his nation. He saw beyond religious boundaries and his physical appearance too doesn't send shivers down the west's paranoid spine, as many of them have now been conditioned to view armed, bearded and turbaned men as the antithesis of whatever the hell they stand for.

So yes, it's no surprise that Bhagat Singh would get more attention given these things.