Families
pushed
for inquiry

Fram pane

Canada to make a life again,
This is my home,” said
Perviz.

Perviz, 52, bas worked asa
counsellor and lived in
Canada for 27 years, the fast
12 vears in North Vancouver.

She said there were about
cight people on the bombed
flight that were from the B.C.
area.

‘The bombing ef the plane
was fong suspected to be
retaliation by violent B.C.
Sikh extremists to the Indian
government's raid the previ-
ous June on Sikhismr’s holiest
shrine, the Golden Temple in
Amritsar. The Indian: army
raided the temple, killing sev-
eral hundred including a Sikh
separatist leader.

Meanwhile
aware from
charges — were
around this time.

“We are happy and anx-
jous and hope that the
charges stick,” said Perviz.

Perviz, has been hoping
and praying for the fast 15
years for the people responsi-
ble for her husband's death to
be convicted. “Somebody
needs to pay for this horrible
crime,” said Perviz, 52. Her
children are now 24 and 20.

Perviz. said the victims’
families lobbied for a public
inguiry in the last five years
when it appeared the investi-
gation was stalled. The
RCMP put more staff on the
case and offered a $1 million
reward. Initially, Mounties
were ignorant about the Sikh
community, hard-line activists
and the emotional level of
politics in India.

Perviz) was
police — that
imminent

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Lions Gate Hospital

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bomb scare on Sunday.

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Vancouver RCMP, a 9-1-1]
caller claimed there was a
bomb at the North Vancouver
hospital and that evervone
would be killed. The call was
made shorty aficr 9 a.m.

Police traced the call to a
pay phone outside London
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