{"id":58509,"date":"2023-09-20T03:33:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T18:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/19\/canada-killing-adds-to-suspicions-of-indian-crackdown-on-sikh-separatists"},"modified":"2023-09-20T03:33:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T18:33:17","slug":"canada-killing-adds-to-suspicions-of-indian-crackdown-on-sikh-separatists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58509","title":{"rendered":"Canada killing adds to suspicions of Indian crackdown on Sikh separatists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khalistani groups who want independence of Punjab accuse India of killings in UK and elsewhere<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/19\/trudeau-india-expulsions-canada-sikh-leader-killed\">Canada and India make tit-for-tat envoy expulsions over killing of Sikh leader<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Months before Hardeep Singh Nijjar was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/20\/advocate-separate-sikh-state-india-shot-dead-canada-hardeep-singh-nijjar-temple\">shot dead in a carpark in Canada<\/a>, three other Indians associated with the Sikh separatist movement had died on foreign soil \u2013 in circumstances deemed, at least by some, as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Justin Trudeau alleged there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/18\/credible-evidence-india-behind-killing-of-canadian-sikh-leader-says-trudeau\">\u201ccredible evidence\u201d<\/a> that the Indian government was behind the assassination of Nijjar, an explosive accusation that torpedoed already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/19\/canada-india-tensions-explainer-fatal-shooting-sikh-leader-hardeep-singh-nijjar\">frayed diplomatic relations between India and Canada<\/a>. India called the allegation \u201cabsurd\u201d and both sides expelled senior diplomats in response.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/19\/canada-killing-adds-to-suspicions-of-indian-crackdown-on-sikh-separatists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khalistani groups who want independence of Punjab accuse India of killings in UK and elsewhereCanada and India make tit-for-tat envoy expulsions over killing of Sikh leaderMonths before Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead in a carpark in Canada, three o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[244,62,712,433,371,1282,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-india","category-justin-trudeau","category-narendra-modi","category-religion","category-sikhism","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58509","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58527,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58509\/revisions\/58527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}