329 Air India Boeing deaths in 1985: Canadian Sikh terrorists were responsible

On June 23, 1985, a bomb placed on board an Air India Boeing which took off from Montreal exploded off the coast of Ireland. The 329 people on board – nearly 100 children and 268 Canadians – lost their lives in the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history, the deadliest in the world until the attacks of September 11, 2001. A second bomb placed on board Another Air India flight from Canada crashes at Tokyo airport, killing two baggage handlers.

The Sikh terrorists wanted to avenge the Golden Temple operation of 1984, when Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had ordered the Indian army to dislodge Sikh separatists who had taken refuge there. Located in Amritsar, Punjab, it is the most sacred building of the Sikhs. The operation left hundreds of pilgrims dead. Indira Gandhi was assassinated four months later by two of her Sikh bodyguards.

Acquitted despite 18 years of RCMP investigation

Canadian Sikh Inderjit Singh Reyat, who assembled the bombs, pleaded guilty in 2003. Sentenced to fifteen years in prison, he was released in 2017. His two accomplices Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri were both acquitted despite the The RCMP’s nearly twenty-year investigation, the most expensive in Canadian history (nearly $130 million).

In 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed former Supreme Court Justice John Major to investigate the matter. His report, released in 2010, concluded that a “cascading series of errors” on the part of the Government of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service allowed the terrorist attack to take place. . » Incredibly, an important witness in the trial was even murdered, while under the protection of the RCMP!

The judge said in his 2010 report that nothing had changed in the way the RCMP and CSIS work together in their terrorism investigations and that the same mistakes could happen again. Would this still be the case today, regarding the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Sikh activist murdered in June in British Columbia? Nijjar had been repeatedly warned of threats against him and was advised to avoid the Sikh temple in front of which he was killed. That seems to indicate he was under surveillance. If so, how come the culprits were not immediately arrested?

Trudeau accuses India of being responsible for the murder without saying what he is basing it on so as not to harm the investigation. Another Sikh separatist, Sukhdool Singh Gill, wanted in India for murder, has just been assassinated in Winnipeg. Internal conflicts divide the Sikh separatists.

But the case of Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was shot and killed in Vancouver in 2022, is of particular interest. Malik was acquitted in 2005 of involvement in the attack on the Air India flight. Two men were charged with the murder days after the killing. The preliminary investigation drags on and the file is subject to a publication ban.

Sikhs flock to Canada

The Indian government and media say Canada is a haven for Sikh terrorists who carry out violent actions in favor of the creation of an independent state, Khalistan. The Canadian Sikh community is the largest in the world outside of India. According to the 2021 census, Sikhs represented 2.1% of the Canadian population. In British Columbia, they constitute 5.92% of the population, more numerous than French speakers.

Trudeau invites a Sikh extremist to his party

Justin Trudeau’s trip to India in February 2018 was a disaster. Not just because Trudeau and his family stupidly strutted around in wacky Indian outfits.

During his visit, a Sikh separatist extremist was invited to the reception in Trudeau’s honor. The right-wing ethnonationalist government of Narendra Modi did not appreciate this. According to Indian media and analysts, Sikh influence in Justin Trudeau’s entourage is only exceeded by that of China.