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"A Sikh separatist leader was attacked on a California highway earlier this
month in a shooting that his organization has described as an assassination
attempt.
Satinder Pal Singh Raju, an organizer with Sikhs for Justice and an advocate
for the establishment of an independent Sikh state, Khalistan, was traveling on
the Interstate 505 near Sacramento on 11 August when the truck he was in was
“sprayed with bullets”. He survived the shooting.
Raju is an associate of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian advocate for Khalistan
who was assassinated in Vancouver in 2023, according to Sikhs for Justice. The
Canadian government has said there were “credible allegations” that “agents of
the Indian government” were behind Nijjar’s death.
California has long been home to a strong Sikh independence movement, and Raju
has helped organize referendum efforts in the state to show support for
Khalistan.
The California highway patrol confirmed to the
Guardian that a shooting had
occurred and that it unfolded after 11.30pm on 11 August in Yolo county. The
agency is investigating the incident, and no arrests have been made, Rodney
Fitzhugh, a CHP spokesperson, said in a statement.
Raju told the
Sacramento Bee that he was returning from an organizing meeting
with colleagues when a car pulled up next to them in a rural area of the
highway and began firing, prompting the driver of the truck to veer into a
ditch. They fled the vehicle and hid behind a haystack where they called 911,
the newspaper reported.
Sikhs for Justice shared video on social media that showed bullet holes in the
window of the driver’s side and in the windshield of the Dodge Ram."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
