Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh and welcome to the sixth history podcast by SikhArchive, today we are joined by the journalist and activist Phil Miller from the organisation called Declassified UK, to discuss his monumental work of 2014 which exposed the British involvement and collaboration with the Indian State in 1984 regarding operation bluestar and the State violence that subsequently followed. 

In January 2014, Phil Miller went to the national archives in London to research documents that had just been declassified by the British government regarding any files related to the foreign office in 1984. What he had come across with reference to India and the Sikhs of 1984 has radically changed the narrative concerning any discussion on operation bluestar, especially for the Sikhs that reside in the UK. 

I reached out to him as we approach the remembrance of the battle of amritsar 36 years on to talk to him about his research, methodology, the challenges he faced and other important talking points related to his work and findings, including his information tribunal appeal that followed in the years after for his fight for further documents that remain classified which may reveal much more regarding what happened after 1984 and also to what extent the SAS and intelligence services were involved.