"The government is with us," said Sikhs for Justice president at yesterday's Khalistan "referendum" in Auckland, New Zealand. I recognized familiar faces from Canada and the U.S., and police confirmed that "many" attendees travelled from overseas for the convention.
Sikhs for Justice, outlawed in India as a secessionist group, celebrates the assassination of India’s prime minister and reveres the suicide bomber who killed Punjab’s first minister. Their Ottawa organizer, Santokh Singh Khela, sentenced to life for conspiring to bomb Air India Flight 112, was later released after his conviction was overturned and a stay of proceedings was ordered. He is linked to Babbar Khalsa, designated a terrorist group in Canada.
The group’s Calgary "referendum" honoured Talwinder Singh Parmar, the "mastermind" of Canada’s deadliest terror attack that killed 331 people. Their general counsel, Gurpatwant Pannun, was investigated by the RCMP in 2023 for making "threats" against Air India. Given this background, I asked if they faced any issues entering New Zealand.
They were kind enough to answer this sensitive question, and the response I received was certainly an interesting one: "The government is with us."
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