Today in 1986, 37 years ago: General Arun Shridhar Vaidya, the most decorated soldier in India, who between June 3 and 6, 1984 had directed the massacre of 492 Sikh civilians in the Golden Temple, the shrine of the Sikh religion in Amritsar, is killed. (On October 31, 1984, the politician responsible for the massacre, Indira Gandhi, was killed by her Sikh bodyguards.)

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