I'm not trying to reach conclusion in the beginning but without being biased I completely reject the language of WaPo about the escalating situation between India and Canada. There are many phrases and sentences which show how biased WaPo is! They say, there are always two sides of a coin but here this post has completely neglected the Indian side of the coin. Look at the title, does it not include all the Sikhs, not the pro Khalistani terrorism supporter sikhs? However, it did mention some statements from some Indian leaders and officials.
For the context Nijjar, a self proclaimed separatist leader for Sikhs, was murdered almost a year ago. It's not hidden from anyone that he had been funding "the Khalistani Movement" which was rather a terrorist coup to brainwash Sikhs against India. But as I can see Indian Sikhs are very happy and have nothing to do with any movement. Rather, I've seen many Sikh leaders here celebrated his demise.
Nijjar and Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the target of the New York plot, were leaders of a movement that for decades has campaigned to carve out an independent Sikh state in northern India. The movement was marked by violent clashes in the 1980s, but has been relatively dormant since a crackdown led to a mass exodus of Sikhs to other countries.
The clashes that happened in 1984, not in 1980. Those were times when a prime minister was murdered by her own bodyguards and there were almost a thousand (official number is 470) Sikhs were killed for running terrorist coup against Indian state. That terrorist group however always limited to far west and close to Pakistan border and was funded by Pakistan. The mass exodus never happened and WaPo is completely wrong on this. Indians Sikhs have always settled outside India in search of job and money, and not because they were afraid of Indian government.
That being said I do not deny India's security Agency could not be behind killing Nijjar. What I'm against is how this drama is exaggerated and overtly emphasized by Trudeau and Western media. The WaPo post mentioned India's reply to the recent allegations as —
India has vehemently denied the accusations. A statement issued by the country’s Ministry of External Affairs on Monday said that Modi’s government “strongly rejects these preposterous imputations and ascribes them to the political agenda” of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Why can't it be a political agenda. The Sikh people living in Canada are the second highest population of Sikhs in the world? This makes it more obvious when Trudeau himself makes claims that the response by India is a personal attack on him.
Trudeau said Monday that “the response of the Indian government has been to deny, to obfuscate, to attack me personally and the integrity of the government of Canada and its officials and its police agencies.”
Why would Mr Trudeau think it as a personal attack when it was a reply to his allegations? Trudeau was personally attacked because he also attacked leaders, included Modi and Amit Shah in his allegations. Tit for Tat.
Now I would want you read the following part of WaPo article very carefully and let me explain why WaPo has completely gone against the laws of unbiased journalism.
Even so, the new allegations add to mounting concerns among Western security officials and human rights organizations that Modi’s government has become one of the world’s most aggressive practitioners of “transnational repression,” or the use of violence and other means to neutralize perceived homegrown adversaries who have sought refuge in other countries.
WaPo is saying this because it was India who invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Venezuela and have been continuously and aggressively funding Ukraine and Israel for years now.
Ask to any educated and wealthy Indian Sikh, he will say he liked the idea of a seperate Sikh state and he also will tell you how much he despised Nijjar and Pannu for spreading trying to spread propoganda and terrorism.