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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
If it's "1914... all over again," someone should warn the archduke!
About 376 would-be immigrants -- mostly Sikh passengers --on a Japanese ship were denied entry into Vancouver in the spring of 1914.
The Komagata Maru was stuck in the city's harbour for two months before Canadian immigration officials forced the vessel to return to South Asia.
Once the vessel arrived back in India, the British Army shot 26 of the passengers to death, fearing they were sympathetic to the country's independence movement....
"Jason Kenney personally declared on behalf of the Canadian government that they were going to address this in Parliament," he said.
"Now the community feels like it's 1914 on the boat all over again."
Yea, there's a comparison between what happened in 1914 on the Komagata Maru and receiving an official apology at a banquet hall and not in Parliament.
Ingrates.
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