{"id":58493,"date":"2023-09-19T09:25:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T00:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/19\/canada-india-tensions-explainer-fatal-shooting-sikh-leader-hardeep-singh-nijjar"},"modified":"2023-09-19T09:25:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T00:25:27","slug":"explainer-whats-behind-the-growing-tensions-between-canada-and-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58493","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: what\u2019s behind the growing tensions between Canada and India?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Trudeau has said there is \u2018credible\u2019 evidence that Indian government agents were behind the<strong> <\/strong>alleged assassination of Sikh leader<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, announced on Monday that there was \u201ccredible\u201d information linking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/18\/credible-evidence-india-behind-killing-of-canadian-sikh-leader-says-trudeau\">Indian government agents to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader<\/a> in British Columbia in June.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement marks a significant worsening of bilateral ties between the two countries at a time when India is already unhappy that Canadian authorities are not cracking down on Sikh protesters who want their own independent homeland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/19\/canada-india-tensions-explainer-fatal-shooting-sikh-leader-hardeep-singh-nijjar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Trudeau has said there is \u2018credible\u2019 evidence that Indian government agents were behind the alleged assassination of Sikh leaderCanada\u2019s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, announced on Monday that there was \u201ccredible\u201d information linking Indian gov&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,62,1282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-india","category-sikhism"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58494,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58493\/revisions\/58494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}