Three men in Canada charged with assassinating a Sikh separatist
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Three men have been charged in Canada for the alleged murder of a prominent Sikh separatist in the latest development in a long-running intrigue that has fueled diplomatic tension between Canada and India.
Three men have been arrested and charged in Canada for the alleged murder of a prominent Sikh separatist, according to Canadian police, marking the latest development in a long-running intrigue that has fueled diplomatic tension between Canada and India. According to court filings seen by CNN, the men are identified as Karanpreet Singh, Kamalpreet Singh, and Karan Brar. They are accused of conspiring “with others to commit the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar,” according to the filings. Nijjar, a Canadian citizen, was gunned down by masked men last June outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia. He was a prominent campaigner for a separate Sikh homeland out of India, which would be known as Khalistan and include parts of India’s Punjab state. Last September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had credible information linking the Indian government to the killing of Nijjar. The allegation outraged India, which has vehemently denied the claim, calling it “absurd and motivated.” The diplomatic fallout saw tit-for-tat expulsions of senior diplomats from both countries. Campaigning for the creation of Khalistan has long been outlawed in India, where painful memories of a deadly insurgency by some Sikh separatists continue to haunt many Indian citizens. But it garners a level of public sympathy among some in the Sikh diaspora overseas, where activists protected by free speech laws can more openly demand secession from India. Weeks after Trudeau’s announcement, the United States accused an Indian government official of being involved in a conspiracy to kill another Sikh separatist, American citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, on US soil. A US indictment unsealed in November accused an Indian national, Nikhil Gupta, of trying to kill Pannun, who is a wanted man in India and considered to be a terrorist by the government.
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