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Labour MPs accused Foreign Secretary William Hague yesterday of dodging the full truth about Britain's connections to the bloody 1984 massacre of thousands of Sikhs in Amritsar.
Mr Hague told the Commons that an inquiry by Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood had concluded that Britain's "assistance" to the Indian government was "purely advisory and limited."
The tame probe was launched last month amid an outcry over documents released under the 30-year rule, which revealed that an SAS officer was sent to advise Indian military authorities in the run-up to their attack on Sikhs occupying the Golden Temple.
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR