’40 years long is long ‘: Indian-Canadian Group 1985 urges Kanishka Memorial to honor the Air India bombing victims.
Two Indian-Canadian organizations have asked the Canadian government to establish a memorial and information center to honor the 1985 Air India bombing victims, known as the Kanishka tragedy.The Khalsa Diwan Society, and the North American Hindus Association wrote a letter to the Primary David EB of British Columbia and sought a vacant space for a memorial wall, reflection garden, public learning center, educational programs and spaces and dialogues. In a statement, the organization urged the government to honor the voice of several British Columbians for the establishment of a Kanishka Memorial and Learning Center in British Columbia. “We imagine the Kanishka Memorial and Learning Center not only as a site of memory, but a living will for a powerful statement of our communities and a powerful statement of our collective values. It will include: A Memorial Wall and Reflection Garden, Honoring Each of the affected families, which honors the affected families, which is designed to inform the students, and the extended public, the exaggerations, the students honor them. Remember vigor, vigilance and social responsibility. In the statement, the organization said that the families of the victims, who have done unimaginable grief and disadvantage for forty years, are more than silence. “They deserve the place of honor, reflection, and remembrance, which is their pain, flexibility and permanent acknowledgment. Our children and future generations are worth understanding the whole truth of this tragedy: because of this, its consequences, and its intense lessons about extremism, justice and karas.”
What happened in 1985?
On June 23, 1985, Air India aircraft exploded near the Irish coastline from Canada to London from Canada, resulting in all 329 passengers and crews died. The explosion occurred due to an explosive equipment, which was hidden in the checked goods, despite that the passenger investigated the goods, which never rode on the aircraft. The number of casualties consisted of 268 Canadian citizens, mainly the Indian dynasty and 24 Indian citizens. The search operation can fix only 131 bodies from the ocean.According to the investigation by Canadian officials, Sikh separatists in 1984 stopped bombing as vengeance against the Indian Army’s deadly operation at the Golden Temple in the state of Punjab.
