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Western countries have for too long acquiesced to the Indian government’s abuses

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[–] snipgan@kbin.social 79 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Regardless if the guy deserved it or not, killing them in a country you are supposed to be on good terms with is not the way to go about it.

At this point India is barely even trying to hide it.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 55 points 1 year ago

Also, the guy in question was a Canadian citizen.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's too early to confirm who did it, but it looks like it just happened again:

https://lemmy.ca/post/5829102

An alleged (edit: alleged by India) Khalistani terrorist was just murdered in his home in Winnepeg.

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And all the Indian news outlets are claiming the guy was a gangster and that this was a gang-related shooting. Meanwhile the local Winnipeg police are just like "Uh, we have no evidence on that as of yet and have made no statements about that, where the frick are you getting this claim from?"

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I updated the headline to make it clear that the allegations were by India, because people were rightly pointing out that "alleged Khalistani terrorist" was giving them too much credit.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

India's getting blatant and nobody cares because of China.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Modi isn’t exactly subtle about anything.

e: modi not MIDI