Punjabi paper still dealing with Air India fallout

The Indo-Canadian Times still receives threats over its coverage 13 years after its publisher, Tara Singh Hayer, was gunned down and 26 years after the Air India bombing.
The leading Punjabi-language publication in North America has to take extra security precautions when it runs articles about the Air India bombing, the people who were behind the mid-air explosion in 1985 or what happened to the victims’ families, Dave Hayer, the son of Tara Singh Hayer, said on Thursday in an interview.
“We have to go the extra step with security, but I won’t go into that,” he said.
Tara Singh Hayer was shot dead on Nov. 18, 1998, in his garage moments after arriving home for dinner. A failed attempt to kill him 10 years earlier had left him a paraplegic. Although no arrests have been made, he is widely believed to have been killed for what his paper had published about the Air India case.
Mr. Hayer said he is disappointed that, after all these years, the RCMP still has not made any arrests related to his father’s death.
The RCMP have not spoken to him for about six months, he said. “They say they are working on the case. I believe they are,” Mr. Hayer said, adding that he would prefer to keep hoping the RCMP will eventually make arrests rather than give up all thoughts of justice.
17/11/11 Robert Matas/Globe and Mail

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