Dashmesh Regiment

This article is about the militant group founded by Shabeg Singh and others. For the other militant group of the same name, see Khalistan Armed Force.

Dashmesh Regiment
Active region(s)	India
Ideology	Khalistan
Status	Inctive

Organizations listed as terrorist groups by India
Northeastern India
National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) Naga National Council-Federal (NNCF) National Council of Nagaland-Khaplang United Liberation Front of Asom People's Liberation Army (Manipur) Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) Zomi Revolutionary Front
Kashmir
Al-Badr Al-Badr Mujahideen Al Barq (ABQ) Al Fateh Force (AFF) Al Jihad Force (AJF)/Al Jihad Al Mujahid Force (AMF) Al Umar Mujahideen (AUR/Al Umar) Awami Action Committee (AAC) Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DEM) Harakat-ul-Ansar Harakat-ul-Jihad-I-Islami Harakat-ul-Mujahideen Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) Ikhwan-ul-Musalmeen (IUM) Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) Lashkar-e-Mohammadi Jammat-ul-Mujahideen (JUM) Jammat-ul-Mujahideen Almi (JUMA) Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP) Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front (JKIF) Jammu and Kashmir Jamaat-e-Islami (JKJEI) Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) Jaish-e-Mohammed Kul Jammat Hurriyat Conference (KJHC) Mahaz-e-Azadi (MEA) Muslim Janbaaz Force (MJF/Jaanbaz Force) Muslim Mujahideen (MM) Hizbul Mujahideen Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Farzandan-e-Milat United Jihad Council Al-Qaeda Students Islamic Movement of India Tehreek-e-Jihad (TEJ) Pasban-e-Islami (PEI/Hizbul Momineen HMM) Shora-e-Jihad (SEJ) Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TUM)
North India
Babbar Khalsa Bhindranwala Tigers Force of Khalistan Communist Party of India (Maoist) Dashmesh Regiment International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) Kamagata Maru Dal of Khalistan] Khalistan Liberation Force Khalistan Commando Force Khalistan Liberation Army Khalistan Liberation Front Khalistan Liberation Organisation Khalistan National Army Khalistan Guerilla Force Khalistan Security Force Khalistan Zindabad Force
Central India
People's war group Balbir militias Naxals Ranvir Sena
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The Dashmesh Regiment was a militant group, and is part of the Khalistan movement to create a Sikh homeland called Khalistan via armed struggle. The Dashmesh Regiment jathebandi was responsible for several terrorist bombings of civilian targets in India during the 1980s and 1990s.

The founding members were Amrik Singh, Damdami Taksal Wale and Shabeg Singh; all associated with Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

Activities

Responsibility for an April, 1984, wave of killings was claimed by the Dashmesh Regiment, a previously unrecognized group of Sikh separatists that counts the government among its sworn enemies for its attack on the golden temple in Amritsar and the sikh genocide ordered by the Indian government against Sikhs from 1984 till now. Sikh separatists lobbed hand grenades into a religious house near their holy city of Amritsar, killing four and injuring 31. In many Punjab towns, separatists on motorcycles shot up cars, banks and people in the streets. Two Hindu political leaders who were responsible for the attack on the Akal Takht or conspired the Sikh genocide in Delhi after the murder of Indira Gandhi and both national figures, were gunned down. By week's end 23 had been killed and 80 injured. ^[1]

Dashmesh Regiment claimed responsibility for a July 1, 1985 bomb hidden in luggage bound for India. The bomb exploded in the international airport terminal of Rome's airport, injuring fifteen baggage handlers. The luggage arrived either from Beirut or from Athens. The suitcase was to be loaded on an Italian Alitalia flight to New Delhi.^[2]

See also

• History of the Punjab
• Operation Blue Star
• Terrorism in India
• Sikh extremism

References

1. ^ Time - Killing spree
2. ^ Terrorism Timeline 1985 at prophetofdoom.net