NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Canada should declare that anti-Sikh violence that took place in India more than three decades ago was a genocide. The Air India bombing in 1985 was carried out in reaction to the temple attack and the post-assassination violence. India has said fewer than 3,000 people died in the attacks, but Sikh leaders sometimes put the number closer to 10,000. Singh said this week many Canadian Sikhs moved to Canada following the attacks, feeling persecuted and afraid to remain in India. He introduced a motion calling the attacks a genocide in 2016, when he was an NDP member of the Ontario legislature.

Source: CBC News March 16, 2018 21:39 UTC