You can see that in terms of the public inquiry report that came out in 2010 - June 23rd being declared as the national day of remembrance for victims of terrorism. Post 9/11 there has been a renewed interest. Has the perception of the bombing changed in the years after it took place? For 150th celebrations, South Asian history group reflects on Canada's darker momentsĬanada History: June 23 1985: Air India and Canada's deadliest terrorist attack.That meant you did not have a study of what happened, what was the impact of the bombing, what was the grief or what kinds of loss the families were going through. Despite the bombing being planned and executed in Canada and many of the passengers being Canadian citizens it was not seen as being Canadian. It was seen as Indians on an Indian plane going to India. In the initial framing of the bombing it was seen as a foreign tragedy. I think the reason for that is the Canadian government saw this tragedy as not it's own. Angela Failler who is one of the co-editors of Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning. There were a lot of journalistic works and there was one scholarly piece by Dr. When you began your research on the bombing why do you think, so many years later, there was no academic study on the mass murder? Chandrima Chakraborty – co-editor of Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning. Chandrima Chakraborty – co-editor of Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourningĭr.
Listen to the full interview by clicking the image at the top of the page, or read an edited and abridged transcript below. She spoke with the CBC's Conrad Collaco about the worst mass murder in Canadian history and how it is perceived today and in the years since the bombing. When then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney placed a call to Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, he expressed condolences for India's loss.Ĭhakraborty is an editor of the newly published anthology, Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning. Chandrima Chakraborty, a professor of English and Cultural studies at McMaster University, says that when the bombing happened it was not considered by the Canadian government and the public as a Canadian tragedy. Sikh separatists led by a preacher named Talwinder Singh Parmar.ĭr.
The attack was planned by a group of B.C. It disappeared from radar off the coast of Ireland where the search for survivors and answers began.
On June 23 of that year, 329 people were killed, including 280 Canadians and 86 children. The flight left Toronto, then Montreal bound for London, then India. It remains the worst mass murder in Canadian history. Until Sept. 11, 2001, the 1985 bombing of Air India flight 182 was the deadliest terrorist attack anywhere, ever.
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