INDIA and RAW on a killing spree

 INDIA and RAW on a killing spree

 

Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, was shot dead outside a Sikh temple on June 18 2023 in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb with a large Sikh population. Nijjar supported a Sikh homeland in the form of an independent Khalistani state

 

 

In the UK, Avtar Singh Khanda, who was said to be the head of the Khalistan Liberation Force, died in Birmingham in June 2023

 

Paramjit Singh Panjwar, who was designated a terrorist by India, was shot dead in May 2023 in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province.

 

The Canadian government has now said that there is irrefutable  evidence of involvement of Indian agencies in the killing in Canada   Canada's foreign minister  said a top Indian diplomat, Pavan Kumar Rai, had been expelled over the case.

 

The UK killing is likely to be arranged by RAW in similar fashion although no such claim has been made by the UK authorities .

 

THE KILLING IN Pakistan is significant as it would be likely to have been carried out by TTP or Daesh or BLA and could conclusively establish, already known ties, between RAW and terrorist groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan

 

The fallout continues from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement that his government is investigating “credible allegations of a potential link” between the Indian government and the killing of a Sikh leader in British Columbia.

If those allegations are proven, experts said the June 18 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar would represent a targeted, extrajudicial killing on foreign soil – and mark a flagrant violation of international law.

Canada’s allies have only given muted and rhetorical support to Canada over the Indian/ RAW killings of the Sikh leader in Canada The US and the West deem that their  anti China alliance has more importance than State terrorism on foreign soil . This Machiavellian approach brings to light the US stance over human rights and terrorism. only when core American interests are not threatened are the lofty human rights issues  evoked ,but even when there are blatant and brazen trampling of such lofty ideas by a key ally  the US chooses to look elsewhere  There is defiantly a need for a bi polar World Order  and US dominance and imperialism needs to be checked and balanced.  Also remember that under the Indian set up the RAW and intelligence chiefs and organizations report directly to the Prime Minister 

“This episode should be a warning to Western leaders, including [US President Joe Biden], who have fawned over Modi. The last couple of decades of travails with Vladimir Putin should have taught us something about the difficulties of trying to reform nationalist authoritarians, or the perils of granting them impunity.”

“In this case, though, Modi isn’t showing any sign of investigating and seems to be trying to profit politically, by inflaming the prickly nationalism that has carried his career forward so far.

He portrays himself as defender of India’s Hindu majority from Muslim jihadis or Sikh separatists — or sanctimonious Western imperialists — and this dust-up might actually help him in next year’s Indian elections.”

“”We must not forget that in India, the intelligence services report directly to the Prime Minister’s Office,” said Dheeraj Paramesha Chaya, an Indian intelligence specialist at the University of Hull.

Sending agents to assassinate their target in a foreign country is therefore all the more risky for the Indian government.

“If the operation is discovered, it is the direct responsibility of the head of government”

That perhaps stiffened the resolve of Narendra Modi’s government to brazen the allegations out. India angrily denies them, even as it hints that, whoever did for Mr Nijjar, he had it coming. In this, many Indians cheer their government on. It had long branded the dead Canadian a terrorist for advocating a separate Sikh homeland in Punjab and associating with violent groups dedicated to that cause. Indians grimly recall—as the West generally does not—the bloody insurgency and fierce repression this inspired, from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. It led to tens of thousands of deaths in Punjab from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, and to the assassination in 1984 of Indira Gandhi, India’s then prime minister, by her Sikh bodyguards.

But Canada is now starting to look rather less isolated than Mr Trudeau’s Indian critics assumed it was. It turns out that some of the intelligence pointing to Indian involvement in the killing was collected—and provided to the Canadians—by America. Both countries are part of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing club that also includes Australia, Britain and New Zealand. Mr Biden and other Five Eyes leaders duly raised the killing in private with Mr Modi, earlier in September at the g20 summit in Delhi. Mr Modi saw that confab as the latest great coming-out party for India. The Nijjar row has put a dampener on it.

India probably underestimated the strength of Western solidarity. It viewed Canada as a second-order power in which, if the allegations are true, it felt able to meddle egregiously or, if the allegations are not true, whose concerns it could dismiss out of hand. As Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institution in Washington has noted, this was to underestimate the ties that bind America to Canada. The two countries are hand-in-glove security and intelligence allies as well as neighbours. The assassination also has implications for America’s security. It cannot accept foreign-backed hitmen operating in North America. For that matter, there are Sikh communities in America, too. Economist