Among the dead was Bhindranwale, his body riddled by more than a dozen bullets.
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Inspired by charismatic leaders, notably the fundamentalist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the extremists made the temple both their refuge and the symbolic center of their cause.
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Bhindranwale built a fortress at the Golden Temple, the Sikhs' holiest shrine in the Punjab city of Amritsar, and was killed in June 1984 when Indira Gandhi, then prime minister, sent troops to oust him.