‘Credible evidence’ India behind alleged assassination of Sikh leader, says Trudeau

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/18/credible-evidence-india-behind-killing-of-canadian-sikh-leader-says-trudeau

‘Credible evidence’ India behind alleged assassination of Sikh leader, says Trudeau

 

Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Tue 19 Sep 2023 04.06 BST

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Justin Trudeau has said there is “credible evidence” India is responsible for the alleged assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent Canadian Sikh leader, a claim Delhi dismissed as “absurd”.

The Canadian prime minister told the House of Commons of Canada on Monday that, in recent weeks, national security authorities had been probing allegations that New Delhi was behind a state-sponsored assassination.

 

“Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty,” he said. “Canada is a rule-of-law country, the protection of our citizens in defence of our sovereignty are fundamental.

“Our top priorities have therefore been one, that our law enforcement and security agencies ensure the continued safety of all Canadians. And two, that all steps be taken to hold perpetrators of this murder to account.”

Trudeau said the alleged killing “is contrary to the fundamental rules by which free, open, and democratic societies conduct themselves”.

The foreign affairs minister, Mélanie Joly, said Canada had expelled a “key Indian diplomat” and “expects India to fully collaborate with us and ultimately to get to the bottom of this”.

India’s ministry of external affairs said in a statement it “rejected” statements by Trudeau and his foreign minister, adding that allegations of India’s involvement in any act of violence in Canada are “absurd and motivated”.

“We are a democratic polity with a strong commitment to rule of law,” the statement read.

The ministry said it would expel a senior Canadian diplomat in response to Trudeau’s claims. New Delhi’s decision reflects its “growing concern at the interference of Canadian diplomats in our internal matters and their involvement in anti-India activities”, the foreign ministry said.

 

[chatanga1]

Its good to see that finally one country is standing up for truth and justice for the Sikhs. india meanwhile will do all it can to deflect from being put under the spotlight:

 

 

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[GurjantGnostic]

Glad the governments are stating the obvious. Far better than denying the obvious. 

[Suchi]

On 9/19/2023 at 8:19 PM, chatanga1 said:

Its good to see that finally one country is standing up for truth and justice for the Sikhs. india meanwhile will do all it can to deflect from being put under the spotlight:

 

 

Actually it's Canada deflecting over the large cache of drugs found in Trudeau's plane.  Hence why he was grounded whilst they checked the drugs. I understand that India is preparing a legal challenge. 

[SinghSingh]

Hilarious Suchi Veer!

BJP IT cell should be in the business of comedy!

But it doesn't detract from the fact that RAW killed a Sikh at the Gurdwara for no reason

In turn giving undeserved momentum to ISI+RAW double agent and comedian Pannun.

 

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https://theintercept.com/2023/09/23/sikhs-fbi-canada-india-nijjar/

FBI WARNED SIKHS IN THE U.S. ABOUT DEATH THREATS AFTER KILLING OF CANADIAN ACTIVIST

The FBI visits took on a new urgency after Canada alleged Indian government involvement in the assassination of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil.

Murtaza Hussain

September 23 2023, 1:25 p.m.

AFTER THE BRAZEN killing of a high-profile Canadian Sikh activist in June, FBI agents visited several Sikh activists in California this summer with an alarming message: Their lives were also at risk.

The warnings have taken on a new urgency after Canada’s bombshell revelation on Monday that it has credible intelligence pointing to Indian government involvement in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen and advocate for an independent Sikh state, who was shot dead outside a Sikh temple in British Columbia.

Pritpal Singh, a political activist and U.S. citizen who is a coordinator for the American Sikh Caucus Committee, told The Intercept that he and two other Sikh Americans involved in political organizing in California received calls and visits from the FBI after Nijjar was killed.

“They did not tell us specifically where the threat was coming from, but they said that I should be careful.”

“I was visited by two FBI special agents in late June who told me that they had received information that there was a threat against my life,” said Singh. “They did not tell us specifically where the threat was coming from, but they said that I should be careful.”

The two other Sikh activists, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons, told The Intercept that they were also visited by the FBI around the same time as Singh. The FBI did not respond to a request for comment.

Sikhs throughout the U.S. have received police warnings about potential threats, said Sukhman Dhami, co-director of Ensaaf, a California-based nonprofit group that focuses on human rights in India, particularly in the Sikh-majority state of Punjab.

“We have also received messages that certain community leaders associated with politics of Sikh self-determination have recently been visited by law enforcement and warned that they may be targets,” Dhami told The Intercept.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/justin-trudeau-india-allegations-latest-b2463264.html

Trudeau says he went public with Sikh murder plot claims to ‘put a chill on India’

 

Trudeau says Sikh community in Canada was worried about safety and felt ‘they were vulnerable’

 

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has spoken out on why he went public with his damning allegations about the Indian government’s involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh citizen.

Mr Trudeau told the Canadian Press in an interview that he took the decision to “put a chill on India” and add an extra "level of deterrence" to keep Canadians safe.

In September, Mr Trudeau told the House of Commons that there was “credible evidence” against Indian agents who were allegedly involved in the 18 June killing of Canadian Sikh citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was labelled a terrorist in India.

The Indian government denied the allegations as “absurd” and demanded sufficient evidence from Ottawa amid calls to cooperate into the investigation.

“We felt that all the quiet diplomacy and all the measures that we put in, and ensured that our security services put in to keep people safe in the community, needed a further level of deterrence, perhaps of saying publicly and loudly that we know, or we have credible reasons to believe, that the Indian government was behind this,” he said on Tuesday.

 

“And, therefore, put a chill on them continuing or considering doing anything like this,” he added.

Mr Trudeau said the Sikh community in Canada was worried about their safety and felt “they were vulnerable”.

Shweta Sharma

 

 

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