Thread by @AsYouNotWish

In 1985, on this fateful day, Air India Flight 182 en route from Canada to India was bombed in mid-air by Babbar Khalsa terrorists. None of the 329 people on board survived.

While we can’t reverse this act of terror in the name of religion, we must not fail to acknowledge it.

Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Khalistani terrorist behind the creation of Babbar Khalsa terror org, moved to Canada in 1970 and became the leader of Babbar Khalsa International in 1979. In 1981, he killed two Punjab police officers, in 1983, he was traced and arrested in Germany.

A year later that is in 1984, Talwinder Singh was released by Germany and he returned to Canada. India requested for his extradition from Canada but the request was turned down as Canada didn’t think of Singh’s acts of terror in India as a Canadian problem.

Enjoying the immunity provided by the Canadian state, Talwinder Singh conspired the Air India flight bombing in June 1985, killing 329 innocent people. Though he was never convicted, an inquiry led by a commission concluded that Singh was the mastermind behind the bombing.

In July 2007, Tehelka, an investigative magazine, reported that Talwinder Singh confessed to the Punjab police during interrogations of supplying dynamite to Lakhbir Singh Rode, a nephew of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwala, who was claimed to have led the bombing of Air India Flight.

Attached is Talwinder Singh’s alleged confession to the Punjab police during various interrogations (as quoted by Tehelka).

Meanwhile, Lakhbir Singh Rode who currently heads the banned International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) is suspected to be living in Lahore, Pakistan.

ISYF has presence in over a dozen countries worldwide. Lakhbir is also affiliated with the terror org, Khalistan Zindabad Force.

The subsequent investigations into the Air India bombing exposed many links. The bombing was soon linked to the earlier flight bombing in Japan which had also originated from Canada; the tickets of both the flights were booked by one man & carried bags belonging to no passenger.

All those arrested were found to be the ardent supporters of Khalistan movement and had a history of publicly agitating against India and glorifying armed violence.

One of them, Ajaib Singh Bagri had publicly stated that, “ We will not rest until we take 50,000 Hindu lives.”

The investigations took 25 years to conclude and Air India flight bombing trial proved to be one of the most expensive trials for Canada. The major conclusion was “a cascading series of errors" by Canadian govt, police and intelligence allowed the terrorist attack to take place.

The bigger question is, “Has Canada changed its soft-Khalistan policy even today?” The answer is a big NO. The Canadian territory is still being used with impunity to fan & fund Khalistani terror attacks in India, kudos to the heroes of Punjab Police that they’re averted in time.

A few important add-ons:

1. Terrorist, Talwinder Singh Parmar died in a gun fight with the Punjab police in 1992.

2. Sikh extremists across the world criticise Talwinder’s death in a gun-battle with the police as an extra-judicial killing and as an assault on their faith.

3. The usual Khalistani propaganda is that Talwinder Singh was an Indian agent sent to bomb India’s own plane and people. *Just like Khalistani terror and Blue Star Operation are completely blamed on the Indian state instead of extremist religious views within the Sikh community.

4. The same Khalistani apologists who call Talwinder Singh Parmar, an Indian agent, celebrate him as a martyr of the Sikh nation in Gurudwaras and political events in the west. *Just like, they blame Indira Gandhi for Bhindranwala’s terrorism but revere Bhindranwala as a Sant.

Now, it is up to us, Indians, to question this visible deceitfulness and acknowledge the victims of such mindless, religious extremism or fall into the guilt trap created by the apologists of these religious extremists being revered as some sort of warriors. #KanishkaBombing