Silly Rabbit, You Should Have Used a Drone

In case you missed it, Canada has accused India of murdering one of its citizens, a Sikh separatist, in Canada.

The victim, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, was shot in his truck in a parking lot in Surrey, BC by masked assistants. 

This sounds like the sort of thing that Modi would do, particularly given his history with non-Hindus, blithely encouraging sectarian violence that has killed tens of thousands, primarily Muslims, in India.

So, Modi is a murderer with genocidal tendencies, the only question is whether is the one who called the shots on this murder.

Needless to say, these allegations have created a major machlokes in diplomatic relations:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said on Monday that “agents of the government of India” had carried out the assassination of a Sikh community leader in British Columbia in June, an explosive allegation that is likely to further sour relations between the two nations.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Trudeau said that he had raised India’s involvement in the shooting of the Sikh leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, directly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Group of 20 summit meeting earlier this month “in no uncertain terms.” He said the allegation was based on intelligence gathered by the Canadian government.

“Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty,” Mr. Trudeau told lawmakers. He said Canada would pressure India to cooperate with the investigation into the killing of Mr. Nijjar, who advocated Sikh separatism.

Mélanie Joly, the foreign minister, later announced that Canada had expelled an Indian diplomat whom she described as the head of India’s intelligence agency in Canada.

India’s foreign ministry rejected the Canadian allegations on Tuesday morning as “absurd” and politically motivated, saying that Canada had long provided shelter to “Khalistani terrorists and extremists” who threaten India’s security. Khalistan is what Sikh separatists call the independent state they seek to create.

The ministry said that Mr. Modi had “completely rejected” the allegations when Mr. Trudeau presented them to him. “We urge the government of Canada to take prompt and effective legal action against all anti-India elements operating from their soil,” the ministry said in a statement.

Seeing as how these sorts of assassinations have become commonplace, almost routine, over the past few decades, though typically with the strikes coming from the west and directed toward the east.

This is one of the reasons why assassination is a bad policy.  It goes both ways.

Also, and more importantly, if you normalize this policy, and it has been normalized by the US since 911, then you can have someone like Modi, whose definition of terrorist is little more than "Uppity Minority" making the same decision.