atching news of Justin Trudeau’s explosive statement about intelligence indicating Indian involvement in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar did not shock those familiar with India’s security and intelligence operations. Friends and family of Sikh activists regularly express concern about our wellbeing due to a fear of being surveilled by Indian agents, and ultimately being subject to some form of violent reprisal.
India’s aggressive response to Sikh activism – and the consistently rocky relationship between India and Canada – is tied to their common colonial legacy under the British. Nearly a century after the fall of the Sikh confederacy and the colonization of Punjab, British administrators drew a line in the sand in 1947, cleaving Punjab in two.
Since then, the global Sikh diaspora has been a source of considerable dread for Indian officials as the country steadily creeps closer towards officially declaring itself a Hindu” on the global stage, the country has been formalizing its institutions of autocratic power domestically.
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