By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-10-19 04:33:38 | Updated at 2024-10-19 06:26:46
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Ottawa’s accusations this week detailing a deadly Indian campaign against its Canada-based critics may have further derailed bilateral relations – but to Sikh activists, the striking disclosures brought validation.
Canada has accused India of orchestrating the 2023 killing in Vancouver of 45-year-old naturalised Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent campaigner for “Khalistan”, the fringe separatist movement for an independent Sikh homeland in India’s Punjab state.
In public comments this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the national police said India’s targeting of Canadian Khalistan activists went beyond Nijjar’s killing, and has included a broad campaign of intimidation, violence and other threats.
India has dismissed the allegations.
“It was very validating,” Harinder Sohi said at a thinly attended protest on Friday outside the Indian consulate in Toronto.
