I don't know how to take this. I know he's a Sikh, but he's a Canadian and a politician. Rather than worrying about something that happened in India years ago, worry about what's happening in the present here. Let India deal with it.
I have to wonder if he is playing to Sikhs in Canada for more votes. No doubt, if Justin gets wind of this, he'll offer to apologize on behalf of Canada, and we had nothing to do with it. This seems to be the way of things.
Politicians are supposed to be concerned with what is happening in their country now, and try to improve the lives of people here.
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Jagmeet Singh wants Canada to declare anti-Sikh violence in India during 1980s a genocide
By Mia Rabson - The Canadian Press
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Canada should declare that anti-Sikh violence that took place in India more than three decades ago was a genocide.
Singh – who spent much of this week defending himself following the emergence of several videos showing him appearing at various events where others promoted Sikh independence and violence – says there is clear evidence attacks on Sikhs by Hindus which followed the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 were not spontaneous, but rather organized by government.
Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards a few months after Sikh separatists who had barred themselves inside the Golden Temple in Amritsar were killed in a military assault. The Air India bombing in 1985 was carried out in reaction to the temple attack and the post-assassination violence.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4088551/jagmeet-singh-canada-anti-sikh-violence-genocide/
I have to wonder if he is playing to Sikhs in Canada for more votes. No doubt, if Justin gets wind of this, he'll offer to apologize on behalf of Canada, and we had nothing to do with it. This seems to be the way of things.
Politicians are supposed to be concerned with what is happening in their country now, and try to improve the lives of people here.
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Jagmeet Singh wants Canada to declare anti-Sikh violence in India during 1980s a genocide
By Mia Rabson - The Canadian Press
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Canada should declare that anti-Sikh violence that took place in India more than three decades ago was a genocide.
Singh – who spent much of this week defending himself following the emergence of several videos showing him appearing at various events where others promoted Sikh independence and violence – says there is clear evidence attacks on Sikhs by Hindus which followed the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 were not spontaneous, but rather organized by government.
Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards a few months after Sikh separatists who had barred themselves inside the Golden Temple in Amritsar were killed in a military assault. The Air India bombing in 1985 was carried out in reaction to the temple attack and the post-assassination violence.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4088551/jagmeet-singh-canada-anti-sikh-violence-genocide/
