The crisis is intensifying between Ottawa and New Delhi, following the murder of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar. This weekend, the United States supported Justin Trudeau, who accuses India of being behind this assassination on its soil. India rejects this theory altogether and is taking action on its soil against Sikh leaders accused of being separatists.
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With our correspondent in Bangalore, Como Bastin
Questioned by CTV News, the American ambassador to Canada confirmed that Washington had provided information to Ottawa. In other words, it is on the basis of information from American agencies that Canada accuses India of having organized this murder. For a week, the tone has been rising between India and Canada, with the expulsion of diplomats and the interruption of visas.
Hot topic
The Sikh independence movement is a hot topic for India. This weekend, Indian anti-terrorist services intervened in Punjab, the Indian state with the most Sikhs. They seized the property of the founder of Sikh For Justice, a movement banned in India, which demands autonomy for Punjab.
Citizenship revoked
For Amandeep Sandhu, famous Indian author on Punjab and the Sikh community, India’s position is ambiguous. “ On the one hand, India denies being involved in the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. But on the other hand, she points out that Westerners have carried out assassinations in foreign countries in the past, so she has every right to do so. Indian Sikh students in Canada will bear the brunt of this diplomatic escalation. There are more than 100,000 of them per year and their future is very uncertain “. India is now in the process of revoking the citizenship of any Sikh expatriate suspected of independence.
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