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  • It’s possible but if that is the case, the Indian state’s and news’ narrative of it does not consider that angle at all. The closest we have come to this is the discussion around the fact that Canada has a large Sikh community and would not let India wantonly assassinate them. Besides this, the movement is just painted as TERRORIST without any further explanation ignoring the common trend of Indian administration of othering the communities that are not upper caste North Indian Hindus.






  • They see third party voters as more closely aligned with democrats, while they see republicans as lost causes. In short, they think they have a much higher chance to get third party voters to vote for their blue ghoul, while they don’t see how they can sway a deep red republican. Obviously the Democratic party would never compromise with third party voters and their fanatics don’t care about that. So they just berate and scold third party voters.


  • It was a whole thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blue_Star

    Operation Blue Star was a military operation by the Indian Armed Forces conducted between 1 and 10 June 1984 to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and other Sikh militants from the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), a holy site of Sikhism, and its adjacent buildings.

    The military underestimated the firepower possessed by the Sikh militants, whose armaments included Chinese-made rocket-propelled grenade launchers and ammunition with armour-piercing capabilities. Hoping to avoid damage to the holy site, Indian forces unsuccessfully assaulted the temple using light weaponry and quickly resorted to using heavy weapons, including tanks, helicopters and artillery to dislodge the well-fortified Sikh militants.

    The assassination was at the back of this.


  • There is a state in India called Punjab which is a major center for the Sikh demographic. There is a Sikh separatist movement that calls for a state for Sikhs which they call Khalistan. The adherents of this movements are Khalistanis.

    Now I don’t know how legitimate this “threat” of Khalistanis is because the news is useless here. They have some history of organising and violence. For example, Indira Gandhi (former prime minister) was assassinated by her bodyguards who belonged to this movement.

    These days though they are more often than not just used as the enemy to fearmonger. They still have a presence but not like before. If you have read about Trudeau talking about Indian state-sanctioned assassinations in Canada, that was related to this but I am not sure how closely.




  • I really don’t understand your line of reasoning at all. No one said the genocide in Palestine is unique because of the settler aspect. Genocides have already been performed in the name of that cause in the Americas by European settlers. It is still qualitatively different from the genocides in Darfur and Armenia (which you brought up) but that does not make it unique.

    Moreover, even if it is not unique, it does not mean genocides are ubiquitous. That is what it seems to me you are trying to say but it’s hard to tell because I can’t follow your logic at all. Claiming that tensions between neighbouring states are common is something that should require proof. And then claiming that it often escalated to genocides should require even more proof. Colonialists and settlers trivialise their atrocities by blaming it on human nature and stuff like that. But that’s just a cheap move to universalise the capitalist and imperialist logical of accumulation. It is perfectly possible for neighbours to live in peace. You probably have a neighbour. Why haven’t they driven you out of your home and laid a claim to it? Or you then? Almost all countries are not genociding their neighbours? Why is that?