India’s foreign ministry called the allegations that its government was involved in the June murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia “absurd.”
anadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told an emergency session of parliament on Monday that the country’s intelligence agencies are investigating
Trudeau’s announcement was followed by the expulsion of the chief of India’s intelligence agency in Canada. “Today we’re acting by expelling a key diplomat, but we will get to the bottom of this,” foreign affairs minister Mélanie Joly said. The 45-year-old, who migrated to Canada in the 1990s, was a strong advocate for the Khalistan movement, which calls for a separate homeland for the ethnoreligious Sikh community—which makes up about 2% of the country’s population—in India’s Punjab region. At the height of an insurgency in the 1980s and 1990s, tens of thousands were killed amid armed violence between Khalistan supporters and the Indian army.
Meanwhile, India continues to view Sikh activists as a threat to its national security. After the two leaders’ G20 meeting, India’s foreign ministry said in a statement that Modi had in turn expressed to Trudeau his concern about anti-Indian protests in Canada. “They are promoting secessionism and inciting violence against Indian diplomats, damaging diplomatic premises and threatening the Indian community in Canada and their places of worship," the statement said.
Trudeau’s public announcement on Monday has only heightened tensions, with Canadian authorities vowing to “hold the perpetrators accountable and bring them to justice.”
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