India, gangs … or both? Who is behind assassinations of Canadian Sikhs?

Members of British Columbia's Sikh community gather in front of the courthouse in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, on 7 May. Photograph: Chuck Chiang/AP

Less than half an hour after the prominent Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead outside a temple in British Columbia, Moninder Singh addressed a crowd near the site of the brazen attack.

“Make no mistake: this is a political assassination,” Singh told the agitated crowd in June 2023. “And it’s been carried out by India.”