Chandigarh: Appreciating the relentless efforts made by Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau and its investigative agency RCMP, for exposing the masterminds and conspirators behind the assassination of Canadian Sikh Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the party’s political affairs secretary Kanwar Pal Singh said it has taken decades for the world community, especially the members of the Five Eye countries to grasp the depths of human rights violations by India but it is comforting that Canada and the US are not mincing words and are on the right track in calling a spade a spade.
As the Nijjar case in particular and the safety and security of Sikh Canadians in general becomes a matter of deep concern, Dal Khalsa notes with satisfaction that PM Justin Trudeau, his cabinet colleagues and security apparatus has upheld the faith of Sikhs in the Canadian justice system.
For the Sikhs of Punjab there has never been an iota of doubt that the Government of India and its external intelligence agency RAW was the prime suspect, said he.
Dal Khalsa has reasons to believe that the transnational extrajudicial operations against freedom-loving Sikhs by the RAW was a part of a newly carved strategy designed by India’s NSA Ajit Doval with the full backing of country’s political bosses.
Declaring Indian senior diplomats stationed at Canada as ‘persons of interest’ and seeking their impunity waiver was well within the realms of investigation procedures. However, India’s knee jerk response and refusal to cooperate in the probe despite assuring the same in the past, clearly shows that the Indian move against Sikhs has boomeranged.
Time has come when the international community including Five Eyes partners and European Union must hold India accountable for transnational repression.
We acknowledge that these developments could not have been possible had the US administration not tightened the screws of Indian officials. The arrest of Vikram Yadav ( codenamed CC1) on local charges and shunting him out of govt services by Indian security establishment was a glaring example that India only bows before the powerful, said the Dal Khalsa leader.
What was more shocking is the revelation by Canadian investigating agency that India was using the services of known criminal gangs to execute its transnational repression agenda. It reminds us how the then Indian govt used Mumbai based gangster Chotta Rajan in 80’s & 90’s, and now it’s Lawrence Bishnoi, a VIP detainee that fits into India’s scheme of things to silence dissenting voices and dissidents.
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