Kanishka Bombing Inquiry Report Ready: Canadian Panel

[Mehtab Singh]

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Toronto: The Canadian public probe into the 1985 Air India bombing that claimed 329 lives is finally complete, the commission of inquiry has said.

Headed by former Canadian chief justice John Major, the commission of inquiry said Tuesday it has completed the final report to be submitted to the government.

All 329 people aboard Air India Kanishka flight 182 from Montreal to Delhi were killed in a mid-air bomb explosion off the Irish coast on June 23, 1985.

A bomb meant for another Air India flight from Tokyo to Mumbai killed two people the same day at Tokyo's Narita airport during the transfer of the luggage which contained the bomb.

Both the bombs had originated in Vancouver and were planted by Sikh radicals to avenge the India Army action at the Golden Temple - the holiest Sikh shrine - in June 1984.

A Vancouver court acquitted two suspects - Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik - in March 2005, though it named the Sikh radicals for the plot against Air India.

The acquittals led to pressure on the Canadian government to set up a public inquiry in May 2006 to hear the families of the victims and recommend legislative and policy changes to avert future terror attacks.

In a statement, the commission of inquiry said it has completed the drafting of its final report, only "pre-publication work remaining before the report is printed and submitted to the prime minister".

Commission spokesperson Michael Tansey said he expects the report "will be released later this year".

"We are now entering the production phase which includes a National Security review by relevant government agencies and departments, translation, layout and printing."

Asked what action the report will recommend to the government, Tansey said: "It is up to the government to determine what it does with the recommendations in the report. The report will cover all of the areas that are included in the Commission's mandate".

He said the five-volume report will be issued in English and French.

The commission had presented at an interim report in December 2007 on the heart-wrenching testimonies of the families of the victims.

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[citizen_soulja]

indian intelligence agencies were responsible for the bombing not Sikhs that is not how we operate

[Papi]

indian intelligence agencies were responsible for the bombing not Sikhs that is not how we operate

How typical :rolleyes:

Justice needs to served. If these two are guilty and they if they know they did it, they should simply turn themselves in. That is what a Sikh would do, killing innocent lives is no joke.

[citizen_soulja]

when have true Khalsa ever targeted civilians?? the only people that kill civilians are governments or muslim terrorists

in regards to flight 182 u need to read Soft Target by Brian McAndrew, Papi you need to read the original post it clearly states that the accused we ACQUITTED,

i would say the post by Papi is TYPICAL of the slave mentality ......''oh no not the government! how could they kill innocent people'' HA!! FOOL!!

[Papi]

i would say the post by Papi is TYPICAL of the slave mentality ......''oh no not the government! how could they kill innocent people'' HA!! FOOL!!

Yes I am a fool and you are Albert Einstien :rolleyes:

[citizen_soulja]

im not professing to be Einstein, and you may not be a fool but the mentality you display is foolish, the Khalsa have always fought defensive wars against oppressing forces that have the capability and have carried out such attacks that seek to undermine the movement in the view of the cultist media demon that has been fully utilised in blackening the name of the Khalsa Movement. To that end the effects of this propaganda have materialised in the voice of the Sikh Sangat, our own people fail to realise the extent of how the machinery of Indian government has attempted to silence the voice of minority protests and enforce the legitimization of particular stereotypes across the media.

in this ''modern'' world business and government interests are inseparable the very nature of the predominately capitalist governments is to oppress, in their system for someone to be on top others have to be underneath, for some to profit others have to live a substandard life, for some to have power others must be powerless, for some to have wealth others must have none. the effects of this system are self explanatory: 90% of the wealth(of which only 5% exists in the form of ''money'') of the world is in the hands of 10%. 80% starve while 20% die of obesity. 20% are heard while 80% are silenced.