Indian Sikh devotees pay their respects at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on June 12, 2013, on the occasion of the 407th Martyrdom Day celebrations of the fifth Guru of Sikhism, Guru Arjun Dev. Guru Arjan was the fifth of the eleven Sikh Gurus and the first Sikh martyr.
Indian Sikh devotees pay their respects at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on June 11, 2013 on the occasion of the Gurta Gaddi Diwas - bestowed Guruship - of the sixth Guru, Guru Hargobind. Following in the footsteps of his father Guru Arjan Dev, Guru Hargobind was the sixth of the Sikh Gurus and became Guru on 25 May 1606.
An Indian Sikh devotee washes himself near the Golden Temple during the Gurta Gaddi Diwas festival in Amritsar on June 11, 2013. The Golden Temple is a prominent Sikh gurdwara located in the city of Amritsar and is an important pilgrimage site for Sikhs.
Sikhs attend a Remembrance March and Peace Rally in central London June 9, 2013. The event was to mark the 29th anniversary of operation Blue Star, when Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, on June 6, 1984, to evict armed Sikh separatists taking shelter there.
Indian Sikh pilgrims board a bus departing to Pakistan at the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar on June 8, 2013. Hundreds of Sikh pilgrims are expected to take part in the 407th Martyrdom Day celebrations of the fifth Guru of Sikhism, Guru Arjun Dev ji, which falls on June 12 with main celebrations to be held at the Gurdawara Dera Sahib in Lahore in neighbouring Pakistan from June 8-13.
Indian Sikhs take part in a prayer meeting in remembrance of Sikhs who lost their lives during the 1984 Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India Thursday, June 6, 2013. Sikhs observe June 6 as the anniversary of Operation Blue Star, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the army to storm the Golden Temple and flush out Sikh militant leaders hiding there in 1984. The army killed Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a Sikh preacher who in 1982 laid the foundation of the separatist campaign for a theocratic Sikh state to be called Khalistan, or Land of the Pure.