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Sep
The stunning allegation that India was behind the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia has revived long simmering tensions within Canada’s Indian diaspora, pitting staunch Hindu nationalists against supporters of the creation of an independent Sikh state called Khalistan.Last October, in the neighboring city of Mississauga, the police broke up a fight in which one man was slightly injured after a crowd, carrying Indian and Khalistan flags, became unruly during a Diwali celebration. In March, a Punjabi radio journalist covering a protest in Surrey of an Indian high commissioner’s visit was attacked by demonstrators.These episodes underscore the…
