Tara Singh Hayer Killed

Indo-Canadian Times | Killed in Vancouver, Canada | November 18, 1998

Photo Credit: Indo-Canadian Times
Job:
Editor
Medium:
Print
Beats Covered:
Politics
Gender:
Male
Local or Foreign:
Foreign
Freelance:
No
Type of Death:
Murder
Suspected Source of Fire:
Political Group
Impunity:
Complete Impunity
Taken Captive:
No
Tortured:
No
Threatened:
Yes

Hayer, publisher of Indo-Canadian Times, Canada's largest and oldest Punjabi weekly, was shot dead in the garage of his home in Vancouver, British Columbia. An outspoken critic of Sikh fundamentalist violence both in Canada and India, Hayer had been partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair after an assassination attempt in 1988. Police have linked the man convicted in that attack to the International Sikh Youth Federation and Babbar Khalsa, two militant international organizations working for an independent Sikh homeland in India. CPJ urged Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien to ensure that Hayer's murder is aggressively investigated and wrote to Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee asking him to cooperate fully with the investigation.

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