{"id":64040,"date":"2024-05-14T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/14\/canada-sikhs-india-organized-crime-hit-squads"},"modified":"2024-05-14T20:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T11:30:16","slug":"india-gangs-or-both-who-is-behind-assassinations-of-canadian-sikhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64040","title":{"rendered":"India, gangs \u2026 or both? Who is behind assassinations of Canadian Sikhs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrests in killing of Canadian Sikh activist offer glimpse of the nexus of underworld crime and alleged Indian hit squads<\/p>\n<p>Less than half an hour after the prominent Canadian Sikh activist 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 outside a temple in British Columbia<\/a>, Moninder Singh addressed a crowd near the site of the brazen attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake: this is a political assassination,\u201d Singh told the agitated crowd in June 2023. \u201cAnd it\u2019s been carried out by India.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/14\/canada-sikhs-india-organized-crime-hit-squads\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrests in killing of Canadian Sikh activist offer glimpse of the nexus of underworld crime and alleged Indian hit squadsLess than half an hour after the prominent Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead outside a temple in British Co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4240,"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":[246,244,62,1668,1282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-india","category-organised-crime","category-sikhism","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\/64040","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\/4240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64041,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64040\/revisions\/64041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}