The Washington Post has picked up on the Air India justice mess. They point to a massive failure on many levels.
To think that after 20 years, this thing is still as far from being resolved as it was after 20 days—is astounding. Nay, it’s the Liberal Canadian Way—or as a man quoted in the Washington Post story put it, it’s another “multidimensional failure”, which is simply another way of saying the same thing.
VANCOUVER, B.C., March 17—In the end, the judge did not believe her. The woman on the witness stand said she loved Ripudaman Singh Malik so much that she had to identify him as the linchpin of a terrorist act.
It was all a charade, concluded Ian Bruce Josephson, a British Columbia Supreme Court justice, meant to hide her malice toward the accused man who had spurned her.
With that, Josephson rejected what experts consider an astonishingly flimsy case against Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, both Canadian Sikhs, and acquitted them. They had been charged with planting bombs intended for Air India planes, one of which brought down Flight 182 off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985, killing 329 people. The other bomb killed two baggage handlers in Tokyo.
Canadian law enforcement agencies were left reeling after the acquittals Wednesday. On Thursday, government officials were trying to answer how the country’s longest, most extensive and most costly investigation could have failed so spectacularly.
“The government needs to be held accountable for this betrayal to us,” said Lata Pada, whose husband and two daughters were aboard the Boeing 747 on Flight 182. “There were severe and unforgivable lapses in the system that need to be investigated.”
Legal analysts said the government would probably face an embarrassing official inquiry.
“We had a multidimensional failure here,” involving intelligence and law enforcement agencies, federal ministers, Parliament members and prosecutors, said Stuart Farson, who directed research for an intelligence oversight committee…
[…] Feuding between the RCMP and the then-newly organized Canadian Security Intelligence Service marred the investigation from the beginning. CSIS staff members erased documents, withdrew surveillance of a key figure in the alleged conspiracy hours before the bombs were set and did not tell the RCMP, according to government investigative reports disclosed last year.
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