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That wasn't my point at all. My point was that Interpol does not do its own investigation. And, the only reason I referred to it as a warrant is that you did; note that I initially referred to "Interpol procedures" and I did that precisely because I did not know for sure what specific Interpol procedures tend to be abused, and which is also why I said, "The Interpol reference might not mean much."
And, perhaps you might think about why you got so bent out of shape by a simple observation that the Interpol reference might not mean much. And that there has apparently been quite a bit of abuse of Interpol procedures on the part of authoritarian governments in recent years. Yet you took that as some sort of claim that there was a good reason for him not to have been extradited, which I did not say at all.
This seems to be a claim that you are just taking at face value and expecting me to do the same -- obviously Interpol doesn't go and investigate things, rather issues their "whatever you want to call thems" based on evidence provided by the country of origin.
So you seem to be suggesting that India (parliamentary democracy, not authoritarian government BTW) faked evidence to get Interpol to put this guy on their list, but wouldn't do the same thing to try to have him extradited from Canada? But would send assassins to shoot him on Canadian soil? I don't really get it.
Well, I provided a link, and frankly it is pretty common knowledge. The Heritage Foundation has written about it and federal law now requires that the State Department issue biannual reports on the practice.
As noted several times, neither you nor I know what efforts India made to extradite him, and we certainly don't know what evidence it gave to Canada in support of any application it submitted.
I have not opined that they did. I simply noted that the Interpol action is not necessarily evidence of anything.
However, yes, regimes sometimes prefer their opponents dead to the alternative of giving a forum to their views via a trial. Especially a leader of a secessionist movement. Moreover, an assassination gives the regime deniability, unlike a trial. So there is nothing inherently illogical about it.
So my initial comment on this was:
How in the world would you interpret this as me having extreme certainty about the Interpol warrant or anything else to do with extradition?
It is simply that I wonder why nobody moved to extradite him between 2015 and now, and whether questions about this will make the Trudeau government look all that great. (depending on the answers to those questions, of course -- but anything that could be spun as "harbouring accused theatre bomber" is probably not politically beneficial for them)
The entire rest of this thread is extremely tangential to this point, which I will raise again as a persistent discussion pattern with you that would be better avoided.
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