Canada has up to date its journey advisory for India to incorporate warnings about protests and “adverse sentiments” in direction of Canadians in gentle of a current breakdown in Canada-India relations.
World Affairs Canada is urging travellers to train a excessive diploma of warning when visiting the South Asian nation.
“Within the context of current developments in Canada and in India, there are requires protests and a few adverse sentiment in direction of Canada on social media,” reads an replace to the journey advisory. “Please stay vigilant and train warning.”
The replace comes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India final week of being concerned within the killing of a Canadian citizen needed for a number of years by authorities in that nation.
Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down in June exterior a Sikh temple in temple in Surrey, B.C., a Vancouver suburb with a excessive Sikh inhabitants. Nijjar was a distinguished member of a political motion to create an unbiased Sikh homeland referred to as Khalistan. On the time of his homicide, he was working with the group Sikhs for Justice to arrange an unofficial referendum among the many Sikh diaspora.
Trudeau known as for India’s assist to research earlier than revealing there have been “credible allegations” implicating India’s authorities within the killing. Then, final Tuesday, Canada expelled an Indian diplomat.
India known as the allegations absurd and fired again by expelling a Canadian consultant.
The Indian authorities additionally halted all visa companies for Canadian residents and, 5 days earlier than Canada up to date its journey advisory, urged Indian residents in Canada to train warning over “rising anti-India actions and politically-condoned hate crimes and legal violence” right here.
“Given the deteriorating safety surroundings in Canada, Indian college students particularly are suggested to train excessive warning and stay vigilant,” reads the journey advisory.
In the meantime, Sikh activists are urging the diaspora in Canada to assemble exterior Indian embassies in protest of the killing.
Over the weekend, Sikhs for Justice director Jatinder Singh Grewal advised Reuters his group will lead demonstrations exterior the Indian embassies and consulates in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver to extend public consciousness about Nijjar’s killing.
– With recordsdata from The Canadian Press and Reuters
