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Essay / Discrimination of Sikhs in India - 523
For endless decades, members of the Sikh faith have suffered countless injustices at the hands of their countrymen. The Sikh religion was created in India in the 15th century by the first guru Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji. The Sikhs were a peace-loving people who spread messages of freedom and equality. They even went so far as to risk their lives to help other religions. Despite all this, over the last century, the decedents of the people whom Sikhs have sacrificed and continue to sacrifice to save have turned their backs on them. India reduced Sikhs to second-class citizens and did not even consider them a religion in their own right. During the independence movements, Sikhs contributed the most, although they made up only 2% of the population. The treatment became even worse when the government and military executed Operation Bluestar. Operation Bluestar was a campaign of indiscriminate killing in which the government attacked nonexistent terrorists. Even the aftermath itself was a colossal tragedy and injustice. Even to this day, the treatment of Sikhs...