VANCOUVER — The B.C. gurdwara where a Sikh separatist leader was gunned down has launched an investigation into how an American newspaper was able to view security camera footage of the June killing.
Gurkeerat Singh, who said he is a spokesman for the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, said it's unclear how the Washington Post was able to see the video of Hardeep Singh Nijjar's death.
Nijjar had been a vocal supporter of the Khalistan movement that advocates a separate Sikh homeland in the Punjab. He was an organizer for the unofficial referendum in several countries calling for a separate homeland for Sikhs. "Someone said 'that's not fireworks, it's gunshots,'" he said in an interview translated from Punjabi.
Singh said that two days later, a friend showed him surveillance video on his phone from the gurdwara parking lot of a light-coloured car following Nijjar's truck, then stopping the pickup at the exit. Both he and the friend were on a committee headed by Nijjar, he said, so they had access to the video.
Bhupinderjit Sidhu was also playing soccer with Singh that day. He and another man ran toward Nijjar's truck and saw him slumped over.
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