This week has been hectic on the international front. Every Tom, Divya, and Harminder from right across the world seemed to have an opinion on the death of theKhalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada.
The situation was escalated by the Canadian PM Trudeau who made a surprising statement in which he basically accused India of killing a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil. He said, ‘Canada was looking at credible allegations potentially linking the Indian state to Hardeep Singh Nijjar's murder’.
What PM Trudeau forgot to mention in his press conference was that Canada:
a. Has provided a haven for Khalistani terrorists to set up terror training camps.
b. Has provided a haven for Khalistani terrorists to escape their crimes committed either in India, or with the intention of committing murders and creating anarchy in India.
c. Has refused to extradite these Khalistani terrorists by turning a blind eye to their crimes.
d. Has refused to prosecute these terrorists.
This is the same Canada that allowed theKhalistaniterrorists who blew up Air India Flight 182 on 23rd June 1985 to get away with it. Only one terrorist was convicted, Inderjit Singh Reyat, but even he was set free early. The Governor General-in-Council of Canadain 2006 appointed the former Supreme Court Justice John C. Major to conduct a commission of inquiry. His report, Air India Flight 182: A Canadian Tragedy, made a damning indictment of actions taken before and after the tragedy.It goes on to say there were"cascading series of errors" by the Government of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that allowed the terrorist attack to take place. It seems Trudeau has not learnt anything for their past failures.
Canada that turns a blind eye to terrorism and extremism. It’s a nation that habours known terrorists. A nation whose own commission tells us about the negligence and incompetence of its agencies.329 lives lost, and 280 of them were Canadians. But it seems, for Canada maybe these victims of its gross negligence were a bit too brown for them to take seriously.
So they told us Reyat was working as a mechanic, but in reality, he turned out to be a mass murderer. Similarly, it seems Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a plumber, but in his photos he is seen with machine guns. This terrorist was not hiding his credentials, he was openly sharing videos of the terror camps in Canada and firing off machine guns. In fact, he was so well known for his extremism that he was even put on a ‘No Fly’ list by the Americans! Right across Canada huge billboardsdisplayed the Khalistani terrorists asking people to do harm to Indian diplomats. And yet, the Canadian PM and his law enforcement agencies didn’t see anything wrong with such an open demonstration of incitement of hate and violence. It begs the question; what madness are the people of Canada promoting? Canada is to North America; what Pakistan is to South Asia.
I have no idea who killed Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. Apart from wild accusations, we have not seen one shred of verifiable evidence that would stand up in a court of law. Yet, PM Trudeau in his infantile wisdom thought it would be great idea to accuse India. I am always amazed that western nations reserve the right to conduct extrajudicial killings when it suits them. However, this right is reserved only for western nations. All other nationsare treated as second class. The mindset of the white supremacists never changes it seems.
The fault lies of course with the rest of the world. It has allowed the duplicity and the bigotry of the west to thrive. India will no longer tolerate these double standards. In my view, it is time for India to step up and escalate their actions. The life of an Indian, anywhere in the world, is worth at least the same as that of western citizens. India cannot, and should not, allow itself to be brow beaten into submission. I was therefore heartened when I learnt that the Government of India is finally taking steps to revoke OCI and other types of visas of these rouges, and that all their assets in India will be frozen or placed in state custody. It is not necessaryfor Bharat to ever accept the narrative of the west. In the end, such exhibition of grandiose narcissism from the west must always be treated with the contempt it deserves.
