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Mother of Sikh 'martyr' to be honoured in Ontario

CanWest News Service

Published: Friday, October 06, 2006

VANCOUVER - The mother of a convicted Punjabi assassin is expected to arrive in Canada Saturday to be honoured at an Ontario Sikh temple for the sacrifice of her ''martyr'' son, CanWest News Service has learned.

The event, being organized in Canada by a Punjabi political party that supports Sikh separatism, is to be held Monday at the Rexdale, Ont., Gurdwara run by the Sikh Spiritual Centre, registered with the Canada Revenue Agency as a charity that does not involve itself in politics.

A Punjabi ad for the program says it is to pay tribute to Harjinder Singh Jinda and Sukhdev Singh Sukha, who murdered the Indian army general who led the 1984 attack on the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine. Both were convicted and hanged on Oct. 9, 1992.

The ad says that Jinda's mother, Gurnam Kaur, and sister, Balwinder Kaur, were being flown over from India ''specially to participate.''

The Ontario service for the pair comes as the Air India inquiry in Ottawa is raising the issue of charities being used by militants to fund-raise.

One of the organizers, Gurmit Singh, was asked Thursday whether it is appropriate to hold an event condoning murderers.

Singh said: ''That is not an issue for us,'' Singh said. ''We consider them as shaheeds. We consider that they fought for the right cause.''

Vancouver Sun

© CanWest News Service 2006

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I want to ask what relevance has this story to canadian mainstream society, not like her son killed anyone in canada or a canadian aboard for that matter. This kind of story obvious shows the bias against Sikhs the crappy canadian media has. Someone obviously in the canadian media was tipped off by people working for the Indian government.

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ok..

i heard they didnt get visa, because government didnt give allow them to come

and it is gurdwarsa here in ontario that tell them not to send them

one of the reasons being more sangat at rexdale gurdwara and not other gurdwaras.

because this was one of the issues when sant ranjt singh dhadiranwala went to malton gurdwara and not others. its all about money

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