WILL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF ON
NOVEMBER-19-2023
THE GHOST OF AIR INDIA FLIGHT--182
Sarasij Majumder
Back in the early 1980s, Khalistan violence was on the rise
with several terrorist outfits such as Babbar Khalsa springing up, and started
operations. The leader of Babbar Khalsa was Talwinder Singh Parmar:
Born in Punjab India, he immigrated to Canada in the year
1970 and eventually became a citizen. After becoming the head of Babbar Khalsa
in Canada, Parmar organized and claimed the responsibility of several
assassinations, murders, and terrorist attacks in India the assassination of
two police officers in Gul Khurd and Kott Shameer, Punjab, India. Some of them
are listed below:-
- The
killing of Nirankari religious leader Gurbachan Singh.
- The
attempted assassination of Niranjan Singh, an Indian civil servant.
- The
assassination of Lala Jagat Narain, a member of the Punjab Legislative
Assembly and former Member of the Parliament of India.
- The
killing of a village head in Punjab, India.
And some more.
Hence, the Indian government issued an arrest warrant
against Parmar, and he was arrested in Germany. After his release a year later,
he went back to Canada. But, since he was still a wanted man in India, Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi formally requested his extradition from Canada. But,
Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau, rejected the extradition request, on
a funny excuse.
His reason? That India was not sufficiently deferential to
the Queen. In other words, since India did not recognize the Queen as the head
of the state but only as the head of the Commonwealth, the extradition protocol
between Commonwealth countries wouldn’t apply here.
Canadian Journalist and former Senior Correspondent of CBC
news Terry Milewski even wrote the following about it:
“Not much came of it. Quite the reverse, in fact. It was
Pierre Trudeau’s government which refused the 1982 Indian request to extradite
Talwinder Parmar to India for murder, on the quaint grounds that India was
insufficiently deferential to the Queen. That is not a joke. Canadian diplomats
had to tell their Indian counterparts that the extradition protocols between
Commonwealth countries would not apply because India only recognized Her
Majesty as Head of the Commonwealth, and not as Head of State. Case closed!”
Turns out, this decision made by Pierre
Trudeau would end up becoming one of his biggest mistakes, if not the
BIGGEST, costing exactly 329 lives.
That’s because in the year 1985, Talwinder Singh Parmar
would go on to mastermind the bombing of the Air India Flight 182, a flight
that took off from Montreal and exploded over the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland,
killing all 329 people onboard, most of whom were Canadian nationals.
The bomb had been planted on the plane in Montreal itself.
Mind you, the Canadian security agencies as well the police
had been alerted by their informers that Talwinder Parmar and his accomplices
were involved in acquiring and testing some bombs. Also, the Indian R&AW
had also warned the Canadian intelligence agencies that Khalistani terrorists
were planning something like that. However, none of it was taken seriously by Pierre
Trudeau.
As a result, the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history
happened.
Also, as corroborated by a 2010 report by a commission
headed by Canadian Supreme Court Justice John C Mayor, the Canadian
investigation agencies totally botched the post-tragedy investigation, and a
lot of evidence that implicated Parmar was destroyed, thus allowing Parmar to
get away with it. However, RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) still
establishes Parmar to be the main brain behind this terrorist attack.
The Sucker would meet his justice when he sneaked into India
through Pakistan border and was gunned down by Punjab police. But then, the
damage was already done. Those people who died in the tragedy weren’t going to
return.
If only Pierre Trudeau accepted the extradition request by
Indira Gandhi and/or Canadian agencies took the warnings that Khalistani
terrorists were planning to plant a bomb on a flight seriously, this tragedy
would have been averted.
LIKE SON--- LIKE FATHER
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:--
Khalistan movement - Wikipedia
Talwinder
Singh Parmar - Wikipedia
Air India Flight 182 - Wikipedia
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