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If India ordered a murder in Canada, there must be consequences (www.economist.com)

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Western countries have for too long acquiesced to the Indian government’s abuses

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[-] random_prime@lemmy.ml 81 points 1 year ago

As an Indian I agree. But I need to see conclusive proof first. I don't want to see my country degrades itself to the same level as CIA / NSA or Mossad. If we did something wrong there should be adequate consequences.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The thing is we're scared of China and you're the only developing country of over a billion left, on top of your ideological and language similarities with us. Even Trudeau is treading as lightly as he can given the situation.

[-] random_prime@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I understand your point of view but don't you think these things should have been considered thoroughly before going public in this manner? It is only fair to ask for conclusive proof if you accuse something serious like this in public. It is safe to assume all diplomatic effort has been failed from both side. Also as far as I read in the news, the investigation itself is ongoing. Don't you think all these confusions could have avoided if Canada decided to go public after concluding the investigation? That way India would have very little wiggle room to refute the hard evidence presented.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

That would be good. The thing is spies are involved, so I don't know if all the evidence he can see will be released for decades. I don't think the Prime Minister would have brought it up at all unless he had to, given how terrible this is for everybody.

What do you think, would the Indian government do this? There are a lot of Khalistan supporters in Canada and it seems like Hindutva would argue for a very tough treatment of that, but I'm not Indian.

[-] random_prime@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I am a common citizen I literally have no internal knowledge, especially in these top secret national security stuff. As a sane human being what I can say is that incentive to commit the alleged crime is there. That doesn't necessarily mean we actually did it. And yes as a society currently we are in ultra nationalistic clusterf**k. So public sentiment is there to support this kind nefarious behavior domestically.

It is really unfortunate situation. At one hand it's foolish to blindly believe anyone (irrespective of their designation county or affiliation) without concrete evidence, especially regarding issues as serious as this. On the other hand I also kinda understand how hard it is to make espionage related evidences publicly available, even for world leaders. In any case, diplomacy from both sides failed us. Knee jerk reactions in international relationship seldom help.

Above all, what I would like to point out is that, this is a kind of situation where nobody wins.