Wikipedia's article on Operation Blue Star, community-edited. Reliable for the settled dates of the Indian Army's assault on the Golden Temple complex at Amritsar, 1 to 10 June 1984, with the heaviest fighting on 5 to 7 June; the casualty figures are sharply disputed and the article states this openly, the government's own initial White Paper naming 83 security force deaths and 4,712 civilian deaths inside the complex against independent human rights estimates exceeding 10,000 dead in total, a gap this atlas names rather than resolves.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blue_Star
Source Typereference
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 1 to 10 June 1984 date range, undisputed, and for the casualty figures, which the event's own entry carries as a named government-versus-independent disagreement rather than one resolved number. NotesUsed for Operation Blue Star and its violence against Sikhs.
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This source names Amritsar directly: "on the Golden Temple complex at Amritsar, 1 to 10 June 1984, with the heaviest fighting on 5 to 7 June; the casualty figures are sharply disputed and the article states this openly, the government's..."
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This source backs 61 claims across the atlas. As facts: 52 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 5 holds, 1 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Spread Events, 46 claims: 40 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
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