| Corbett Report: #3. Investigate Air India time reference: 00:02:32 Parmar and Reyat charged November 85 - The Wikipedia article on the flight has general information about the disaster and contains the information that Talwinder Parmar and Inderjit Singh Reyat were arrested by RCMP in November 85 and later released. | ||||
| 6/23/1985 |
Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Montréal-London-Delhi route. On 23 June 1985, the airplane operating on the route — a Boeing 747-237B (c/n 21473/330, reg VT-EFO) named after Emperor Kanishka — was blown up by a bomb while in Irish airspace, at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m), and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. 329 people perished, including 280 Canadian citizens, mostly of Indian birth or descent, and 22 Indians. The incident was the largest mass murder in modern Canadian history. The explosion and downing of the carrier occurred within an hour of the related Narita Airport Bombing. Investigation and prosecution took almost 20 years and was the most expensive trial in Canadian history, costing nearly CAD $130 million. The main suspects in the bombing were the members of the Sikh separatist Babbar Khalsa and other related groups. Inderjit Singh Reyat was the only person convicted of involvement in the bombing, after pleading guilty in 2003 to manslaughter. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for building the bombs that exploded at Narita airport and Flight 182. The Governor General-in-Council in 2006 appointed former Supreme Court justice John Major to conduct a commission of inquiry and his report was completed and released on 17 June 2010. It was found that a "cascading series of errors" by the Government of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had allowed the terrorist attack to take place. (Wikipedia) | |||
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| Corbett Report: #3. Investigate Air India time reference: 00:02:57 Reyat convicted May 1991 - Details of the conviction of Reyat for the Narita bombing in May 1991, as well as a timeline of other key Air India events. | ||||
| 3/16/2005 |
Air India chronology: A chronology of the Air India case. 1978 to May 1984 Sikh leaders in India and abroad start talking about separatism. They are led in England by Dr. Jagjit Singh Chouhan and in Punjab by the charismatic Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who begins to amass arms and supporters in the Golden Temple complex, Sikhism's holiest shrine, in Amritsar. 1978 In Vancouver, suspected Air India mastermind Talwinder Singh Parmar starts the militant separatist group Babbar Khalsa at the urging of Bhai Jiwan Singh, a leader of the fervently religious Akhand Kirtani Jatha. June 29, 1983 Parmar is arrested in Germany on an Interpol warrant saying he is wanted for murder in India in 1981. With assistance from two friends in Canada, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Surjan Singh Gill, he wins his release in July 1984. (Canada.com) | |||
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| Corbett Report: #3. Investigate Air India time reference: 00:03:18 Air India trial cost $107 million | ||||
| 5/15/2007 |
Canadians Assess Blame in Air India Bombing Adults in Canada say two entities should be held responsible for the country's deadliest terrorist attack, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. 34 per cent of respondents think both the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and airport security personnel deserve a great deal of the blame for the 1985 Air India bombing. (Angus Reid Strategies) | |||
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| Corbett Report: #3. Investigate Air India time reference: 00:03:35 Harper launches Air India inquiry - Report on Harper's announcement of the Air India inquiry. | ||||
| 5/1/2006 |
Harper launches Air India inquiry The Conservative government has launched a full public inquiry into the investigation of the Air India bombing, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday. Harper said his government decided on the terms of reference for the inquiry after retired Supreme Court Judge John Major, who will lead the probe, consulted with family members of some of the victims. Harper said the "thorough and compassionate investigation" cannot find fault or repeat the criminal trials that have already taken place. (CBC) | |||
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| Corbett Report: #3. Investigate Air India time reference: 00:05:03 James Bartleman testimony to the Air India inquiry - Air India testimony for May 3, 2007 can be watched at CPAC's website. | ||||
| 5/3/2007 |
CRTC Public Hearing: Diversity of Voices Proceeding The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is holding public hearings in Gatineau, Quebec from September 17 to 21. The purpose of these hearings is to review the CRTC's approach to issues related to the diversity of voices within the Canadian broadcast system. (Cable Public Affairs Channel) | |||
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| Corbett Report: #3. Investigate Air India time reference: 00:09:50 Graham Pinos testimony to the Air India inquiry - Air India testimony for May 17, 2007 can be watched at CPAC's website. | ||||
| 5/3/2007 |
CRTC Public Hearing: Diversity of Voices Proceeding The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is holding public hearings in Gatineau, Quebec from September 17 to 21. The purpose of these hearings is to review the CRTC's approach to issues related to the diversity of voices within the Canadian broadcast system. (Cable Public Affairs Channel) | |||
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| Corbett Report: #3. Investigate Air India time reference: 00:12:43 Michael Anne MacDonald testimony to the Air India - Air India testimony for May 17, 2007 can be watched at CPAC's website. | ||||
| 5/3/2007 |
CRTC Public Hearing: Diversity of Voices Proceeding The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is holding public hearings in Gatineau, Quebec from September 17 to 21. The purpose of these hearings is to review the CRTC's approach to issues related to the diversity of voices within the Canadian broadcast system. (Cable Public Affairs Channel) | |||
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| Corbett Report: #3. Investigate Air India time reference: 00:18:56 MacDonald Commission and the creation of CSIS - The BCCLA article outlining the illegal intelligence collection of the RCMP and the creation of CSIS. | ||||
| 10/2/1998 | APEC PROTEST RAISES NEW QUESTIONS ON WHO'S DOING SPYING -::- On whose orders was the RCMP compiling files on activists, and what role did CSIS play? These are issues the current inquiry should pursue, the authors argue. (Vancouver Sun) | |||
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| Corbett Report: #3. Investigate Air India time reference: 00:19:56 Parmar was under surveillance - A report confirming that Parmar was under CSIS surveillance weeks before the bombing. | ||||
| 4/30/2007 |
In Depth: Air India; Evidence Part 1: Plotted in plain sight? In 1987, Canada's solicitor-general James Kelleher declared: "I should point out to the House that there was no indication that there was a specific threat to Flight 182." Sixteen years later, then federal solicitor-general Wayne Easter repeated the assertion: "They were not in a position to know that there would be a terrorist attack on an Air India aircraft." Were they right? Was there really no warning — or was the Air India bombing plotted in plain sight? In 1982, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi complained to prime minister Pierre Trudeau that Sikh extremists in Canada were financing and organizing terrorist attacks against Indian targets. Three years later, on June 22, 1985, two bombs placed by Sikh militants in Vancouver killed 331 people. Air India Flight 182 blew up as it approached the coast of Ireland, killing 329 people. Two baggage handlers died earlier during a blast at a Tokyo airport. Ever since, successive Canadian governments have insisted that Canada's security agencies could not have prevented the bombing because there was no warning. (CBC) | |||
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| Corbett Report: #3. Investigate Air India time reference: 00:22:01 RCMP officer Don Adam admits wiretap coverup - In an interview with a suspect, Don Adam of the RCMP admits that wiretap evidence was destroyed after the bombing to coverup the fact that CSIS had a mole in the organization. | ||||
| 9/8/2003 |
IN DEPTH: AIR INDIA; Crime Files: Investigation Timeline (CBC) | |||
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| Corbett Report: #3. Investigate Air India time reference: 00:23:16 Gill co-founded Babbar Khalsa - The official government document admitting that CSIS mole Surjan Singh Gill was one of the co-signators on the document that incorporated Babbar Khalsa as a religious society. | ||||
| 3/16/2005 |
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN AGAINST RIPUDAMAN SINGH MALIK and AJAIB SINGH BAGRI Citation: R. v. Malik and Bagri, 2005 BCSC 350 Date: 20050316 Docket: CC010287 Registry: Vancouver Before: The Honourable Mr. Justice Josephson. Reasons for Judgment... (Supreme Court of British Columbia) | |||
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| Corbett Report: #3. Investigate Air India time reference: 00:23:43 Gill leaves for England - CSIS mole has the great good fortune to leave Canada for England just weeks before Malik and Bagri were arrested. | ||||
| 3/29/2006 |
WHY THE INQUIRY INTO AIR INDIA MUST CLARIFY THE ROLE OF CSIS INFORMER SURJAN SINGH GILL Alexandre Popovic Open letter to the federal minister of public safety regarding the necessity to examine the role of a CSIS informer in the bombing against the Air India Flight 182 in which 329 peoples died more than twenty years ago. Rest of the text: To the Honorable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Subject: public inquiry on Air India Attention Mr. Minister : Your party decided to honor the electoral promise engagement of holding a public inquiry into the Air India case. Your colleague, Justice Minister Vic Toews, gave you the task of fixing the framework and timeline of the public inquiry into this dramatic event that is now nearly twenty-one years old. Despite the un-precedent scope of this tragedy, I can unfortunately testify, to the fact that today in Montreal, many fellow citizens are still very much unaware of this horrible event. People seem to have forgotten that the Air India Flight 182 took off from the Mirabel airport (in the Montreal area) before exploding over the Atlantic Ocean off the shores of Ireland. There were 329 people on board. This includes 84 children younger than twelve years old. No one survived. All of this took place on June 23, 1985. (CMAQ) | |||
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| 6/2/2003 | Hansard online for June 2, 2003: The parliamentary transcript where Kevin Sorenson asks why the wiretap coverup is not being investigated. (Parliament of Canada) | |||
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