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On June the 18th last year,

Hardee Psyng Najar was at his local Gurdwara, the Sikh temple he attended.

It was Father's Day and his two sons had called him earlier to say that there was pizza and his favourite Indian pudding waiting for him at home when he arrived. That morning,

they'd given him a new pair of jeans as a present. Hannah Ellis Peterson, the Guardian's South

Asia correspondent, has been covering his story. Nijar ran a plumbing business in Surrey, a suburban city near Vancouver in Canada,

but he was born and brought up in India. And there he'd been involved in a movement to create

an independent Sikh homeland, a movement that India bans. So Nijar was very active in the

Gurdwara. He was the president there and that day he'd made his weekly speech to the congregation,

where he spoke of the threats faced by the Sikh community around the world.

And he urged people to face them not with violence, but with activism.

So, you know, he told them we do not need to grab AK-47s.

We need to come together and demand our freedom.

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