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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 128933" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Can reconciliation emerge from Air India tragedy?</span></strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">By </span><a href="http://co107w.col107.mail.live.com/opinions/publiceditor/columnists/94618--siddiqui-haroon" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">Haroon Siddiqui</span></u></a><span style="color: navy"> Editorial Page - THE STAR, Toronto - June 24, 2010</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Justice John Major’s scathing </span><a href="http://www.majorcomm.ca/en/reports/finalreport/" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">report</span></u></a><span style="color: navy"> on the 1985 bombing of Air India made me think of 9/11; the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; Maher Arar, and prejudice in Canada.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">In the summer of 2001, the United States had strong signals about an impending attack on the U.S. But the warnings were ignored.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">In the months leading up to Canada’s biggest terrorist tragedy, there were credible warnings galore about Air India being targeted. But nothing was done.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">In the U.S., too many intelligence agencies were gathering too much information and too few hands were making sense of it.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">In Canada, just three agencies managed to mess it up — the RCMP, the </span><a href="http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/index-eng.asp" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">Canadian Security Intelligence Service</span></u></a><span style="color: navy"> (CSIS) and the </span><a href="http://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/index-eng.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">Communications Security Establishment</span></u></a><span style="color: navy">. The RCMP and CSIS, in particular, actively engaged in "turf wars," Major said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">In Iraq and Afghanistan, America has been criminally incompetent. Multiple American agencies, military and civilian, have worked at cross-purposes and in ignorance of local customs.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">The RCMP and CSIS, too, were spectacularly incompetent, albeit on a smaller scale. They were also culturally clueless. Major: "Surveillants were unable to distinguish one traditionally attired Sikh from another." As in the post-9/11 American thinking, all ragheads seemed the same.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">The Sikhs were foreigners. So were the victims of the bombing. The day after the tragedy, then prime minister Brian Mulroney sent condolences to Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. An overwhelming majority of the dead were Canadian; only 22 were Indian citizens. But in the Canadian consciousness of the time, a Canadian was white. Brown folks travelling on Air India could only have been Indian.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Their families were ignored. The RCMP wouldn’t talk to them for a decade, the same time it took for a federal minister to see them.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">The treatment was no doubt also due to Ottawa’s reluctance to admit culpability. Still, the fact that, in Major’s words, Ottawa "turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the suffering and needs of the families" and "often treated them as adversaries," is not all that easily separated from the then prevailing perception that they were not "real Canadians."</span></p><p><span style="color: navy">Major put it this way: "I stress this is a Canadian atrocity. For too long, the greatest loss of Canadian lives at the hands of terrorists has somehow been relegated outside the Canadian consciousness."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">While the RCMP and CSIS bungled, both pre- and post-bombing, they and federal departments were super efficient in covering up their misdeeds and in resisting a public inquiry. They also were adept at discrediting anyone who questioned them, even </span><a href="http://www.thestar.com/article/210386" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">James Bartleman</span></u></a><span style="color: navy">, former lieutenant-governor of Ontario. He testified that in June 1985, as head of intelligence at foreign affairs, he had seen a specific threat against Air India and had rushed it to the RCMP but was dismissed. No sooner had he revealed that than federal officials began </span><a href="http://www.thestar.com/article/218481" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">badmouthing</span></u></a><span style="color: navy"> him.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">That’s also what they did to Maher Arar. When the Syrian Canadian was brought back, under public pressure, from Syria where he had been tortured, federal security officials tarred him as a terrorist sympathizer.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Major recommends better bureaucratic coordination and strong civilian control. So had the head of the Arar inquiry, Justice Dennis O’Connor, only to be ignored. Major might be as well. "There’d be pushback," as Stephen Harper admitted.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">All this makes Canada look like a banana republic, with security agencies operating badly and beyond political control. But in Harper, they must deal with a Prime Minister who’s not easily pushed, especially from his chosen political path. He has been wooing the South Asian Canadian vote, with emphasis on the Hindu community, having written off Sikh Canadians as Liberal.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Regardless of motivation — partisanship being integral to politics — he’s doing absolutely the right thing: offering an official apology and considering compensation.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">He should try something even more Canadian: lead a rapprochement between Canada’s estranged Sikh and Hindu communities. That would entail separating out the larger Sikh community from the minority still fixated on a separatist Khalistan and, worse, celebrating militant "martyrs," including terrorists.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">An overwhelming majority of Sikhs do not support such extremism. But they do bear the psychological scars of the Indian military’s 1984 attack on the Golden Temple.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Prime minister Indira Gandhi, who approved the operation, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. That led to riots in New Delhi, with mobs targeting innocent Sikhs. Canadian Sikhs want the perpetrators of that massacre brought to justice.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">At the G20 summit this weekend, Harper meets Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh and an innately decent and honourable man. Both should find the wisdom and the words to begin the process of reconciling these two Canadian communities who hail from the same motherland, India.</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="mailto:hsiddiqui@thestar.ca"><strong><em><u><span style="color: navy">hsiddiqui@thestar.ca</span></u></em></strong></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">source: </span><a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/827717--can-reconciliation-emerge-from-air-india-tragedy" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080">http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/827717--can-reconciliation-emerge-from-air-india-tragedy</span></span></u></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 128933, member: 884"] [COLOR=navy][B][SIZE=5]Can reconciliation emerge from Air India tragedy?[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]By [/COLOR][URL="http://co107w.col107.mail.live.com/opinions/publiceditor/columnists/94618--siddiqui-haroon"][U][COLOR=navy]Haroon Siddiqui[/COLOR][/U][/URL][COLOR=navy] Editorial Page - THE STAR, Toronto - June 24, 2010[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Justice John Major’s scathing [/COLOR][URL="http://www.majorcomm.ca/en/reports/finalreport/"][U][COLOR=navy]report[/COLOR][/U][/URL][COLOR=navy] on the 1985 bombing of Air India made me think of 9/11; the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; Maher Arar, and prejudice in Canada.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]In the summer of 2001, the United States had strong signals about an impending attack on the U.S. But the warnings were ignored.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]In the months leading up to Canada’s biggest terrorist tragedy, there were credible warnings galore about Air India being targeted. But nothing was done.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]In the U.S., too many intelligence agencies were gathering too much information and too few hands were making sense of it.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]In Canada, just three agencies managed to mess it up — the RCMP, the [/COLOR][URL="http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/index-eng.asp"][U][COLOR=navy]Canadian Security Intelligence Service[/COLOR][/U][/URL][COLOR=navy] (CSIS) and the [/COLOR][URL="http://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/index-eng.html"][U][COLOR=navy]Communications Security Establishment[/COLOR][/U][/URL][COLOR=navy]. The RCMP and CSIS, in particular, actively engaged in "turf wars," Major said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]In Iraq and Afghanistan, America has been criminally incompetent. Multiple American agencies, military and civilian, have worked at cross-purposes and in ignorance of local customs.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]The RCMP and CSIS, too, were spectacularly incompetent, albeit on a smaller scale. They were also culturally clueless. Major: "Surveillants were unable to distinguish one traditionally attired Sikh from another." As in the post-9/11 American thinking, all ragheads seemed the same.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]The Sikhs were foreigners. So were the victims of the bombing. The day after the tragedy, then prime minister Brian Mulroney sent condolences to Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. An overwhelming majority of the dead were Canadian; only 22 were Indian citizens. But in the Canadian consciousness of the time, a Canadian was white. Brown folks travelling on Air India could only have been Indian.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Their families were ignored. The RCMP wouldn’t talk to them for a decade, the same time it took for a federal minister to see them.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]The treatment was no doubt also due to Ottawa’s reluctance to admit culpability. Still, the fact that, in Major’s words, Ottawa "turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the suffering and needs of the families" and "often treated them as adversaries," is not all that easily separated from the then prevailing perception that they were not "real Canadians."[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Major put it this way: "I stress this is a Canadian atrocity. For too long, the greatest loss of Canadian lives at the hands of terrorists has somehow been relegated outside the Canadian consciousness."[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]While the RCMP and CSIS bungled, both pre- and post-bombing, they and federal departments were super efficient in covering up their misdeeds and in resisting a public inquiry. They also were adept at discrediting anyone who questioned them, even [/COLOR][URL="http://www.thestar.com/article/210386"][U][COLOR=navy]James Bartleman[/COLOR][/U][/URL][COLOR=navy], former lieutenant-governor of Ontario. He testified that in June 1985, as head of intelligence at foreign affairs, he had seen a specific threat against Air India and had rushed it to the RCMP but was dismissed. No sooner had he revealed that than federal officials began [/COLOR][URL="http://www.thestar.com/article/218481"][U][COLOR=navy]badmouthing[/COLOR][/U][/URL][COLOR=navy] him.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]That’s also what they did to Maher Arar. When the Syrian Canadian was brought back, under public pressure, from Syria where he had been tortured, federal security officials tarred him as a terrorist sympathizer.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Major recommends better bureaucratic coordination and strong civilian control. So had the head of the Arar inquiry, Justice Dennis O’Connor, only to be ignored. Major might be as well. "There’d be pushback," as Stephen Harper admitted.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]All this makes Canada look like a banana republic, with security agencies operating badly and beyond political control. But in Harper, they must deal with a Prime Minister who’s not easily pushed, especially from his chosen political path. He has been wooing the South Asian Canadian vote, with emphasis on the Hindu community, having written off Sikh Canadians as Liberal.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Regardless of motivation — partisanship being integral to politics — he’s doing absolutely the right thing: offering an official apology and considering compensation.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]He should try something even more Canadian: lead a rapprochement between Canada’s estranged Sikh and Hindu communities. That would entail separating out the larger Sikh community from the minority still fixated on a separatist Khalistan and, worse, celebrating militant "martyrs," including terrorists.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]An overwhelming majority of Sikhs do not support such extremism. But they do bear the psychological scars of the Indian military’s 1984 attack on the Golden Temple.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Prime minister Indira Gandhi, who approved the operation, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. That led to riots in New Delhi, with mobs targeting innocent Sikhs. Canadian Sikhs want the perpetrators of that massacre brought to justice.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]At the G20 summit this weekend, Harper meets Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh and an innately decent and honourable man. Both should find the wisdom and the words to begin the process of reconciling these two Canadian communities who hail from the same motherland, India.[/COLOR] [EMAIL="hsiddiqui@thestar.ca"][B][I][U][COLOR=navy]hsiddiqui@thestar.ca[/COLOR][/U][/I][/B][/EMAIL] [COLOR=#000080]source: [/COLOR][URL="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/827717--can-reconciliation-emerge-from-air-india-tragedy"][U][SIZE=1][COLOR=#000080]http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/827717--can-reconciliation-emerge-from-air-india-tragedy[/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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