“How Khalistani terrorists targeted buses, trains and markets to identify and massacre Hindus”, OpIndia, july 16, 2026

“It was the night of 6th July 1987. A Haryana Roadways bus had left Chandigarh and was moving towards Rishikesh. The passengers were mainly pilgrims, labourers, women, children and men who expected nothing worse than a late arrival. When the bus was about to cross Lalru, a car cut across its path. Armed men climbed aboard, drove the bus off the main road, taunted the passengers, looted them, and opened fire from both ends of the vehicle.

38 people were killed that night, including five women and four children. This was not crossfire. There was no confusion. The victims were selected and marked for death because they were Hindus travelling through a landscape in which Khalistani terror had learnt how to weaponise the ordinary journey.

This was not an isolated incident. The scene was repeated, with variations, across Punjab during the insurgency. A bus was stopped. A train was halted using the emergency chain. Identities were checked by beard, turban, name, accent or the answers demanded at gunpoint. Sikh passengers were told to step aside. Women and children were sometimes waved away, sometimes not…….”

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