Hundreds of Sikhs demonstrate in Canada against the Indian government

Hundreds of followers of Sikhism demonstrated this Monday in front of the diplomatic missions of India in Canadaa week later Ottawa will link to New Delhi with the murder of a Sikh leader in its territory.

Protesters burned Indian flags and trampled portraits of the prime minister Narendra Modi, while expressing their fear. “We are not safe here in Canada“, am sorry Joe HothaSikh Toronto.

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Last Monday, the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeausuggested in Parliament that India was involved in the murder in the west of the country of Hardeep Singh NijjarCanadian citizen and leader of that separatist religion.

A man stands over a cutout of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in British Columbia on September 25, 2023. (Photo by Cole BURSTON/AFP) (COLE BURSTON/)

“Our Prime Minister (Justin Trudeau) said it all in Parliament, there are no more excuses“, said the follower also in Toronto Harpar Gosal along with other protesters.

Holding the yellow flag of Khalistanthe independent state that the Sikhs hope to create in the region of Punjabin northern India, Gosal demonstrated in front of the Indian consulate against “Indian terrorists”.

Like him, several hundred Canadian Sikhs gathered in Toronto, Ottawa It is vancouver to denounce the actions of the Modi government.

Canada is home to the world’s largest Sikh community outside of India, with 770,000 Canadians declaring themselves Sikhs in 2021, or 2% of the country’s population.

The Indian government describedabsurd“Canadian charges and denied”any act of violence Canada”.

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It also advised its citizens against traveling to certain regions of Canada.”in view of increasing anti-India activities“and stopped”temporarily” processing visa applications.

Since then, diplomatic relations between the two countries have been at their lowest point, marked by mutual expulsions of diplomats, while Trudeau asked Indian authorities to cooperate in the investigation.

Singh Nijjar was shot dead in June by two masked men in the parking lot of the Sikh temple where he was jogging. Surreynear Vancouver, in British Columbia (west).

Source: Elcomercio