In the summer of 2010, then Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, marking the 25th anniversary of the Air India Flight 182 “Kanishka” tragedy, apologised for the “institutional failings” that led to the country’s worst act of terrorism. The first of the projects, a website memorialising the tragedy, is expected to launch this spring. The archival repository at McMaster University will include primary and secondary material, including that donated by members of the families of the victims. Chandrima Chakraborty (centre) with other organisers of the first scholarly conference on the Kanishka tragedy at McMaster University in 2015. Among those are an international conference hosted at McMaster University in 2015, which was, she said, the “first scholarly conference” in Canada on the tragedy.

Source: Hindustan Times January 23, 2018 01:41 UTC