{"id":58782,"date":"2023-09-27T19:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/27\/canada-sikh-india-khalistan-hardeep-singh-nijjar"},"modified":"2023-09-27T19:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:30:01","slug":"whether-it-costs-our-lives-or-not-killing-of-canadian-sikh-leader-reignites-historic-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58782","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Whether it costs our lives or not\u2019: killing of Canadian Sikh leader reignites historic fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decades-long separatist movement gets new fire with \u2018credible allegations\u2019 that India is behind murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar<\/p>\n<p>Yellow and blue smoke filled the air as protesters in Vancouver tried setting fire to a damp Indian flag. As the flame eventually took hold, people in the crowd waved Sikh separatist flags and chanted calls for the expulsion of India\u2019s top diplomat in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s protest outside a heavily guarded Indian consulate came a week after Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, told parliament his government had seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/18\/credible-evidence-india-behind-killing-of-canadian-sikh-leader-says-trudeau\">\u201ccredible allegations\u201d that India was responsible for the fatal shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar<\/a>, a prominent Canadian Sikh leader.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/27\/canada-sikh-india-khalistan-hardeep-singh-nijjar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades-long separatist movement gets new fire with \u2018credible allegations\u2019 that India is behind murder of Hardeep Singh NijjarYellow and blue smoke filled the air as protesters in Vancouver tried setting fire to a damp Indian flag. As the flame eventua&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3981,"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":[244,516,62,931,371,1282,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-hinduism","category-india","category-plane-crashes","category-religion","category-sikhism","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58782","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\/3981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58783,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58782\/revisions\/58783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}