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#India: #Canada: PM Trudeau's "credible allegations" are adamantly rejected by India & What is to be done? Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#India: #Canada: PM Trudeau's "credible allegations" are adamantly rejected by India & What is to be done? Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-killed-hardeep-singh-nijjar-india-canada-china-trudeua-modi-b793c3e0?mod=opinion_lead_pos7

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

0:12.0

Canada and India exchanging remarks that are extremely unhappy given the condition of the world right now,

0:20.0

and camps, drawing up in Europe over the European conflict, one more turn in the road.

0:26.0

The death of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijar.

0:30.0

The death happened in the middle of June. We're just now learning about the allegations by the Canadian government.

0:38.0

That would be in the person of the Prime Minister, Mr. Trudeau, and the response from India by the Narendra Modi government.

0:46.0

I welcome Tunku Veridarajan, a contributing writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial page,

0:52.0

and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who's publishing in the Wall Street Journal today.

0:57.0

What we understand so far of these exchanges of allegations and remarks.

1:03.0

Tunku, a very good evening to you. The allegation made by the Prime Minister and Parliament.

1:08.0

What it was striking to me is that Parliament is not the place to adjudicate what appears to be a capital crime.

1:16.0

Gunfire in the middle of a parking lot in June, several months past.

1:21.0

First, my concern is how this is being heard in India.

1:25.0

Tunku, as of Indian descent, he's a British citizen. Tunku, please explain how India is hearing these allegations from the Prime Minister.

1:33.0

Good evening. Good evening, John. Thank you for having me.

1:37.0

India and Canada, you wouldn't expect them to be in conflict. It's one of those rare events in the affairs of man.

1:46.0

How are Indians seeing this? Indians are indignant. The Indians are angry, actually.

1:55.0

When we say Indians, I mean a combination of the government of India and nationalist Indians who are by no means all Indians.

2:04.0

But speaking for the Indian government, the Indian government has reacted to Mr. Trudeau's statement in Parliament in the House of Commons in Canada,

2:13.0

saying that he had credible allegations. He didn't, to my mind, use the word evidence.

2:18.0

He said credible allegations that India had bumped off a Canadian citizen in Canada.

2:25.0

Now, that's a pretty grave accusation to hell against a friendly country by another friendly country.

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