Lol...Sure world leaders bring up issues...bringing up issues and accusations are two different things.
Modi scolds Trudeau over Sikh protests in Canada against India
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The latest news is that Trudeau spoke because Canada received intel from the U.S.
Canada's charge based on Indian diplomats' communication, ally's intel: Report - India Today
Canada's charge based on Indian diplomats' communication, ally's intel: Report - India Today
Less and less of a Democracy:
'Electoral autocracy': The downgrading of India's democracy
'Electoral autocracy': The downgrading of India's democracy
Three different reports have downgraded India's democracy recently - and the government is not happy.
www.bbc.co.uk
India’s Worsening Democracy Makes It an Unreliable Ally
The treatment of Muslims, who form 14% of India’s population, has worsened. A 2019 report by Human Rights Watch documented 44 murders (36 of them being Muslim) by lynch mobs who killed people they suspected of possessing beef, consuming it, or trading cows. Muslims find it hard to buy or rent property, are denied permission to build mosques in some cases, and prevented from praying in public. Vigilantes prevent Muslims from praying at home. Female Muslim students in one state were banned from wearing head-scarves. A senior politician from Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party had welcomed convicted cow protectors with garlands. BJP-ruled states have passed laws to make it harder for inter-faith marriages from taking place. Right wing Hindus celebrated the early release of 11 men who were convicted of having raped a Muslim woman and murdered some of her family members during the massacres of 2002. Those incidents occurred when Modi was Gujarat’s chief minister and had failed to stop Hindu violence against Muslims. Modi was then barred from entry into the U.S. or the E.U. until India’s Supreme Court said Modi did not have a case to answer. A recent BBC film which blamed Modi for complicity, is banned in India.
Organizations that measure democracies have concluded that India’s democratic record has worsened. Freedom House has down-graded India to ‘partly-free’ status. India has fallen from 27 in 2014 to 46 in 2022, as per the Economist Intelligence Unit’s democracy index. The V-Dem project of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden has relegated India to “electoral autocracy.” The Civicus Monitor calls India’s civil society environment to be “repressed.” The Pew Research Center survey shows India’s social hostility score has worsened. And the World Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders places India at 161, a historic low, down from 150, of the 180 countries it surveys. In the global impunity index of the Committee to Protect Journalists, India ranks 11th, with 20 unsolved murders of journalists.
More broadly, India’s rank in the U.N.’s Human Development Index has fallen slightly, from 130 the year Modi took office to 132, the International Food Policy Research Institute’s world hunger index shows India ranked at 107 out of 121 surveyed countries. the World Economic Forum’s gender gap index shows India ranked 135th of the 146 surveyed countries. Thomson Reuters Foundation calls India the world’s most dangerous country for women. Unsurprisingly, Cato Institute, which measures human freedom, downgraded India between 2015 and 2022 from 75 to 112.
These organizations are drawn from different countries, use different methodologies, and are not ideologically aligned. Yet, they present a consistent image of a country where freedoms are under peril. No doubt, such rankings can be arbitrary and subjective, and there may indeed be some methodological problems. For its part, India disputes many such findings.
This is hardly a report card any government should be proud of. But while such report cards annoy Modi, and his feisty foreign minister Dr S Jaishankar dismisses them pithily, Modi realizes two things: these organizations do not matter in India, and western governments note these concerns and privately might even agree, but publicly they are not about to challenge India. And so he goes on, his party members whip up religious passions to divert attention and he organizes picture-perfect spectacles. By raising the toast for Modi this week, the U.S. is helping him write the script of his re-election campaign and providing him excellent visual footage, which Modi will use to silence critics back home as his party prepares the script for the elections in 2024.
India’s Worsening Democracy Makes It an Unreliable Ally
India’s interests are not aligned with Western interests
Most leaders who think that they did nothing wrong would categorically say that they were not aware of any wrongdoings and will fully co-operate to bring those responsible to ful y pay the price for their actions. But to go and denounce the revelation by stating that the victim was a terrorist for whatever reason means that they were complicit in this whole affair.
Time will tell!!
You are alone amongst my Indian friends with this view. Some of them think the Sikhs here are trouble but even they all think Modi did it.
Just as you don't see the hypocrisy in backing Hindu nationalism while not accepting Sikh nationalism.
The intel came from the five eyes. Which means it not just Trudeau who has seen the evidence.
Usually the Five Eyes post all their top secret intel on Friday nights on TVO, but well, TVO is on strike right now.
So you believe that the claims of significant amount of intelligence about the assassination are wrong?
Sorry but even if Canada was harbouring actual terrorists, India killing Canadian citizens in Canada is a pretty significant violation which is a pretty goon-like move.
I think we've found a blind spot in your morality. Reread your statement substituting any other ethnic group and you will see how racist it is. I'm sure that there are plenty of people in Canada that have the same view of Indians as you have about Sikhs (and Pakistanis).
Did that have info directly tying Nijjar to attacks on civilians or was it simply a file listing his pro-independence activities. I know India accused him of being involved in a bombing but I tend to trust CSIS over foreign governments with strong motivations to demonize an activist
He's been labelled as a Trump style populist pushing a nationalist agenda to gain influence for a long time. Before Trump was on the international scene Modi was simply called a populist ultra-nationalist.
Funny because you seem to have no issue condemning people in other countries for their actions or nationalism.
Hmm. It seems your opinions on Sikh nationalists is very very different from what you say here.
Lets see the evidence that Nijjar was involved in terrorism. Oh wait, there can't be a double standard here.
Intel is not public for many good reasons. It comes down to whether you trust Canadian intel agencies or India's. If you distrust Canadian Intel agencies then perhaps you made a poor choice by moving here.
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What laws? Is there an actual case or is this simply an attempt to suppress negative reporting?
In cases of trials involving white nationalists and other far right figures, the blind defenders complain about the courts not sharing the evidence with them before trial. I've said to them the same thing I'll say now, in what entitled world do you think governments must provide you that kind of info?
So what does that have to do with what BBC reported other than you feeling the need to try and discredit them?
The Brits screwed up by not also partitioning a Sikh homeland in 1947.
Khalistan movement - Wikipedia
Khalistan movement - Wikipedia
