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Who killed Mahatma Gandhi?

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No one knows for sure. The Hindu's just blame the Sikhs because they were the bodyguards that were with her when she died. They just blame them show they can let their anger out.
Indira Gandhi was assassinated by Sikh extremists in retaliation for ordering the Operation Blue Star.

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Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India was assassinated on 31 october,1984 by her own body guards, namely-Satwant Singh & Beant Singh.

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Beginning in 1982, the Sikh community, concentrated for the most part in Punjab near the Pakistani border, pushed for a free and independent state, which they planned to call Khalistan, or "land of the pure." Fearing an attack by neighboring Pakistan, which had provided covert aid to the militant Sikhs, Gandhi took harsh measures to suppress what had become an armed revolt. In June 1984 she ordered the Indian army into Punjab to put down an uprising which threatened to expand into a greater armed conflict. To flush out the leaders of the rebellion, soldiers entered the Golden Temple of Amritsar, a sacred Sikh shrine that had been converted into a paramilitary fortress. Morethan 600 Sikhs were killed, including 37-year-old leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

The Sikhs considered Mrs. Gandhi's actions a moral and civil outrage. Vowing revenge, a team of assassins organized inside Punjab, but they were arrested by Indian parliamentary forces. The money, guns, and clearancepapers found in their possession were allegedly provided by the Pakistani intelligence service, though the Pakistanis denied the charge. The Sikhs struck with vengeance a few days later, on Oct. 31, 1984. Gandhi was leaving her private compound at Safdarjang Road in New Delhi to meet British actor Peter Ustinov to film a television documentary when the shots rang out. Two of her uniformed security guards standing at attention along the path had suddenly broken ranks to shoot at Gandhi. From point blank range Beant Singh, twenty-one fired three shots from a.38-caliber revolver. As Gandhi slumped to the ground the other uniformed guard, Satwant Singh, pumped thirty rounds from a Sten automatic weapon into her. The two Sikhs surrendered to police and were led to the guardhouse. Beant Singh, who was a favorite of Gandhi during the five months he had been assigned to the detail, attempted to seize a gun from one of the other guards and was shot dead.

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Nathuram Godse shot Gandhi to death on January 30, 1948.
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Nathuram Gandhi assassinated Gandhi.

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