There are a few things about this proclamation of a National Day of Mourning for the Air India bombing that raise questions.
Of course, I am treading on thin ice to even bring it up, so I will try to be respectfull and I hope any replies are too. There were 329 lives lost, and I extend sympathies to their loved ones.
First, is it for the victims, or is it about the event itself?
Second, the Canadian government insists on calling it a terrorism. I don't know if the Indian community are calling it that or if they refer to it as "the bombing". It fits the definition of terrorism, but it cheapens the sympathetic message to mix it up with BushCo's "war on terrorism".
It is sounding more and more like support for the [phoney] War on Terrorism, just some passion being drummed up to "go get 'em". It would be more honorable to stay away from that propagandist talk and call it "the tragedy" .
We should know by now that "terrorism" is just the word they are using when small armies are involved, fighting with their most effective weapons. I am not siding with them, just putting it into perspective. Its all war, Bush participates.
Third, it bothers me that Canada and not India that is mourning.
The victims were obviously India's people, and they were victims due to a conflict IN INDIA. Canada does not have a Sihk-Hindu conflict, the bombing was organised and financed and carried out by people close to THAT struggle over there. No part of Canada is involved in that conflict other that some immigrants that CARRY THEIR PATRIOTICDISPUTE TO CANADA, Sihks who worry more about whats going on in India than in Canada.
[ this is where the thin ice is!]
news clipping:
"Police believed the bombings were in revenge for the Indian government's storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Sikhism's holiest shrine, in 1984.
After a 20-year-long investigation and a 19-month long trial two Sikh immigrants to Canada"
Okay, I forgot what the clash was about, so I had to look it up. India's government [Hindu dominated maybe?] VS Sikhism is what it was about.
NEWs clippings again:
"That same day, an attempt to sabotage another Air India flight in Tokyo failed when a bomb exploded prematurely at Narita Airport, killing two baggage handlers".
Would there also be A National Day of Mourning in Japan, for eg., if the perps had lived there, if thats where the bomb was put on the plane?
The flights originated in Canada, and the perps likely lived here, or still do, and this is where the bomb was likely built. Thats why we are having it.
But the conflict didn't originate here. And it isn't continuing in any way over here, other than inside a few private homes of [east] Indians who are so patriotic to the struggles over there. Other races don't get that much "due" for the struggles in their pre-immigration homelands.
Should we have a NDof M for Bosnians or Africans or the Irish etc., when one of them kills their enemies over here, or kills them 'from here' with a bomb?
*Is the difference that there are a high ration of east Indians here? [1 in 30 canadians is east Indian]
* Is it the 329 victims, a number high enough all at once to be noticed?
*What about 329 incidents of ONE victim of a conflict from overseas?
Is anyone else feeling some uneasyness about the National Day of Mourning for Air India? [with apologies to the 329 victims, who will be remembered, amen, but I am going to get shit from our Indian community for this one aren't I? ]
Allways willing to throw myself into the flames,
Karlin
Of course, I am treading on thin ice to even bring it up, so I will try to be respectfull and I hope any replies are too. There were 329 lives lost, and I extend sympathies to their loved ones.
First, is it for the victims, or is it about the event itself?
Second, the Canadian government insists on calling it a terrorism. I don't know if the Indian community are calling it that or if they refer to it as "the bombing". It fits the definition of terrorism, but it cheapens the sympathetic message to mix it up with BushCo's "war on terrorism".
It is sounding more and more like support for the [phoney] War on Terrorism, just some passion being drummed up to "go get 'em". It would be more honorable to stay away from that propagandist talk and call it "the tragedy" .
We should know by now that "terrorism" is just the word they are using when small armies are involved, fighting with their most effective weapons. I am not siding with them, just putting it into perspective. Its all war, Bush participates.
Third, it bothers me that Canada and not India that is mourning.
The victims were obviously India's people, and they were victims due to a conflict IN INDIA. Canada does not have a Sihk-Hindu conflict, the bombing was organised and financed and carried out by people close to THAT struggle over there. No part of Canada is involved in that conflict other that some immigrants that CARRY THEIR PATRIOTICDISPUTE TO CANADA, Sihks who worry more about whats going on in India than in Canada.
[ this is where the thin ice is!]
news clipping:
"Police believed the bombings were in revenge for the Indian government's storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Sikhism's holiest shrine, in 1984.
After a 20-year-long investigation and a 19-month long trial two Sikh immigrants to Canada"
Okay, I forgot what the clash was about, so I had to look it up. India's government [Hindu dominated maybe?] VS Sikhism is what it was about.
NEWs clippings again:
"That same day, an attempt to sabotage another Air India flight in Tokyo failed when a bomb exploded prematurely at Narita Airport, killing two baggage handlers".
Would there also be A National Day of Mourning in Japan, for eg., if the perps had lived there, if thats where the bomb was put on the plane?
The flights originated in Canada, and the perps likely lived here, or still do, and this is where the bomb was likely built. Thats why we are having it.
But the conflict didn't originate here. And it isn't continuing in any way over here, other than inside a few private homes of [east] Indians who are so patriotic to the struggles over there. Other races don't get that much "due" for the struggles in their pre-immigration homelands.
Should we have a NDof M for Bosnians or Africans or the Irish etc., when one of them kills their enemies over here, or kills them 'from here' with a bomb?
*Is the difference that there are a high ration of east Indians here? [1 in 30 canadians is east Indian]
* Is it the 329 victims, a number high enough all at once to be noticed?
*What about 329 incidents of ONE victim of a conflict from overseas?
Is anyone else feeling some uneasyness about the National Day of Mourning for Air India? [with apologies to the 329 victims, who will be remembered, amen, but I am going to get shit from our Indian community for this one aren't I? ]
Allways willing to throw myself into the flames,
Karlin