Hacker News Reader

Comment by AYBABTME | Hacker News Reader

The impact on the immediate victim and family members pales in comparison to the large scale impact this can have by driving a wedge between nations that ought to be friendly and allied.

I don't wish India and Canada (and the West) to be unfriendly for one bit, as the result of this misalignment could be a more severe return to bloody Cold War era and its related proxy wars. Many more victims will derive from democracies not being on good terms and showing a strong unity.

The only winner in this spat is whoever benefits from India and the West being driven apart.

View on HN

If India didn't want this wedge they shouldn't have violated Canada's sovereignty over a local plumber that liked to volunteer at his place of worship

The local canadian plumber who like to volunteer at his place of worship was a known indian fugitive with an interpol request for extradition. He also ran a training camp in Mission,BC to build a militant army. Canada can keep these snakes in its back yard.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/conspiracy-to-kill-...

Sovereignty matters more. You can't just assassinate someone based on your own laws in someone else's jurisdiction. That's anarchy.

So default state of the world?

Are you saying India was protecting its sovereignty by eliminating threats to its sovereignty overseas?

Haven't seen any evidence for the militant training camp except for unrelated video that clearly showed a different person. Countries can put anyone on Interpol, including activists and that's a known problem https://www.voanews.com/a/as-interpol-turns-100-criticism-pe...

Well, you can deflect what I said all you want but the fact remains that he was a terrorist with credible links to crimes in India.

If a Country’s sitting prime minister and innocent citizens (mid-flight ref Kanishka bombing) are murdered by terrorists, would you find fault if that country goes to the end of the earth to eliminate them?

US was one such country. Canada sent its soldiers into Afghanistan and Iraq in the past while innocent civilians were being killed in the open.

If India did have a hand in Nijjar’s killing, it perhaps did it to either send a message to Khalistani’s that it’s not to be messed with. Canada is tolerant of intolerance. Again, it can keep its snakes in its backyard.

They probably didn't want this wedge, and the leak to the media that forced Canadian PM's hand was probably not motivated by neither India or Canada's interests. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would think that a third party with an interest in dividing these two countries would have leaked the information.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com