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On 18 June 2023, Nijjar was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Sikh temple (Gurdwara) in British Columbia. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] On 18 September 2023, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that Canadian intelligence agencies were "pursuing credible allegations of a potential link" between Indian government agents and the assassination of ...
On 18 June 2023, Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead in the parking lot of a Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia. Nijjar was allegedly the head of two pro-Khalistan organisations in Canada, and had been accused by the Indian Government of orchestrating targeted killings in India, for which it unsuccessfully sought his extradition. [159]
Meanwhile, on June 13, 2023, Hardeep Singh Nijjar - a prominent advocate of the Khalistan movement - was killed by masked gunmen outside a Gurdwara in Surrey. His death immediately aroused suspicions in the local Sikh community that the government of India was involved. On September 18, Trudeau announced that investigators were pursuing ...
Activists of the Dal Khalsa Sikh organisation, a pro-Khalistan group, stage a demonstration demanding justice for Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was killed in June 2023 near Vancouver ...
According to The Globe and Mail, the early 2000s witnessed the declining influence of pro Khalistan Sikhs within Surrey's milieu, and the issue became a taboo.Nijjar, upon being elected head of the temple, set out to lift this taboo and introduced various Khalistan symbols and portraits of Sikh militants within the building.
This is a list of successful assassinations, sorted by location.For failed assassination attempts, see List of people who survived assassination attempts.. For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious, political or monetary reasons.
Another said Nijjar was an “uplifting soul” and a “legend”. Indy Nijjar, star of Come Dine with Me, has died aged 50 (Channel 4) “He helped so many people from all walks of life.
Avtar Singh Khanda was a Sikh militant and 9th Jathedar of Khalistan Liberation Force.He was raised in Moga, Punjab, India and sought asylum in the United Kingdom.He took part in demonstrations at the Indian High Commission in London in March 2023 where Indian news media allege he tore down the Indian flag.