Toronto Student Killing: Canadian journalist Daniel Bordman has remarked that there has been a growing culture of anti-India sentiment in the country, citing it as the biggest reason behind the recent killings of Indian citizens.
Bordman criticized the poor handling of such serious cases by the Canadian police and government authorities. He remarked while the government is overly aggressive in dealing with other “not so important” cases, it shows its incompetence when it comes to handling the killings of Indian citizens.
Toronto Student Killing: What The Journalist Said?
The journalist said the recent killing of a man in Toronto has put many questions ahead of the government in power. Bordman went on to add that the government would have put someone behind the bars for 40-50 years if anything was said online against a government official. He questioned if the lives of citizens of India was so cheap that the Canadian authorities don’t even to bother doing anything worthwhile.
Bordman also commented that the best the Canadian authorities would do is to put someone behind the bars for just 3 years before the person is being let out to rampage the streets yet one more time.
Indian Lives Threatened
Himanshi Khurana, a 30-year-old Indian origin woman, was murdered in Toronto. A man named Abdul Ghafoori is under search in connection with the case.
Shivank Avasthi, a 20-year-old man of Indian origin, was shot dead in the 41st homicide of Toronto this year.
Many students and residents of people known to the two have expressed fears knowing that the killers are still on the run.
The Consulate General of India expressed shock on the killings of both Indian citizens. It has asked the authorities and government in Canada to take urgent actions against the killers.
