Editing Khalistan movement (section)

====Air India Flight 182====
[[File:Irish Naval Service recovering bodies from the Air India Flight 182 disaster.jpg|thumb|Irish Naval Service recovering bodies from the Air India Flight 182 bombing]]
[[File:1985-06-10 VT-EFO Air India EGLL.jpg|thumb|The aircraft involved, VT-EFO, seen on 10 June 1985, less than two weeks before the bombing of [[Air India Flight 182]]]]
[[Air India Flight 182]] was an [[Air India]] flight operating on the [[Montreal|Montréal]]-[[London]]-[[Delhi]]-[[Bombay]] route. On 23 June 1985, a [[Boeing 747]] operating on the route was blown up by a bomb mid-air off the coast of [[Ireland]]. A total of 329 people aboard were killed,<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/airindia/victims.html In Depth: Air India] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050318220743/http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/airindia/victims.html |date=18 March 2005 }} – The Victims, CBC News Online, 16 March 2005</ref> 268 Canadian citizens, 27 British citizens and 24 Indian citizens, including the flight crew. On the same day, an explosion due to a luggage bomb was linked to the terrorist operation and occurred at the [[Narita International Airport|Narita Airport]] in Tokyo, Japan, intended for Air India Flight 301, killing two baggage handlers. The entire event was inter-continental in scope, killing 331 people in total and affected five countries on different continents: [[Canada]], the [[United Kingdom]], [[India]], [[Japan]], and [[Ireland]].

The main suspects in the bombing were members of a [[Sikh]] separatist group called the [[Babbar Khalsa]], and other related groups who were at the time agitating for a separate Sikh state of Khalistan in [[Punjab, India]]. In September 2007, the Canadian Commission of Inquiry investigated reports, initially disclosed in the Indian investigative news magazine ''[[Tehelka]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Free. Fair. Fearless|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main33.asp?filename=Ne040807operation_silence.asp|publisher=Tehelka|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912212106/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main33.asp?filename=Ne040807operation_silence.asp|archive-date=12 September 2012}}</ref> that a hitherto unnamed person, [[Lakhbir Singh Rode]], had masterminded the explosions. However, in conclusion two separate Canadian inquiries officially determined that the mastermind behind the terrorist operation was in fact the Canadian, [[Talwinder Singh Parmar]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=15 March 2018|title=Jagmeet Singh now rejects glorification of Air India bombing mastermind|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jagmeet-singh-air-india-bombing-accepts-1.4578030|website=CBC News|access-date=4 August 2020|archive-date=2 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002032159/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jagmeet-singh-air-india-bombing-accepts-1.4578030|url-status=live}}</ref>

Several men were arrested and tried for the Air India bombing. Inderjit Singh Reyat, a [[Canadians|Canadian]] national and member of the [[International Sikh Youth Federation]] who pleaded guilty in 2003 to [[manslaughter]], would be the only person convicted in the case.<ref name="ISYFlink" /><ref>{{cite news|last=Bolan|first=Kim|date=9 February 2008|title=Air India bombmaker sent to holding centre|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|url=http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=9bfcf081-3b29-45ea-8bb3-ad82c051bcbb|url-status=live|access-date=2009-05-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109171020/http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=9bfcf081-3b29-45ea-8bb3-ad82c051bcbb|archive-date=9 November 2012}}</ref> He was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for assembling the bombs that exploded on board Air India Flight 182 and at [[Narita International Airport|Narita Airport]].<ref>{{cite news|date=9 July 2008|title=Convicted Air India bomb-builder Inderjit Singh Reyat gets bail|publisher=CBC News|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/convicted-air-india-bomb-builder-inderjit-singh-reyat-gets-bail-1.732447|url-status=live|access-date=2009-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080710234916/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/07/09/bc-air-india-reyat-bail.html|archive-date=10 July 2008}}</ref>