Canada: Ripudaman Singh Malik shooting ‘opens up the wounds’ for families of Air India victims
Channel: News 360 Tv
Date: 2022-07-16

The Air India Bombing in 1985 remains the largest terrorist mass killing in Canada's history. 331 people were killed, including 268 Canadians.

The victims' families have waited and suffered for 37 years in their quest for answers.

Ripudiman Singh Malik was acquitted in the bombing of Air India flight 182, but he remained a divisive figure in the South Asian community.

As Mike Drolet reports, families who lost loved ones in the attack say that Malik's death doesn't bring them closure.

It’s been more than 35 years since Bal Gupta of Etobicoke, Ont., lost his wife on Air India Flight 182.

Ramwati Gupta was one of 329 people on the plane when it exploded off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985. None survived the terrorist attack.

Gupta and his family mourned deeply. Ramwati, 37, left behind two young sons. She had been on her way to visit family in India.

“I remember the day this thing happened and how it happened,” Gupta told Global News.

“It’s almost like a book, which was kind of closed and sitting on one side, and the pages have started opening, one by one.”


 Thursday, one of the men accused in the attacks was shot dead in broad daylight in Surrey, B.C.

Ripudaman Singh Malik was acquitted in 2005 of any role in the two-pronged plot, which included a failed plane bombing at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport on the same day Flight 182 went down.

In the 24 hours since the shooting, however, some families of those killed say Malik’s death brings up a host of painful memories they had kept close, but tucked away, over the years.

I think that is one of the biggest frustrations for the families, is that the masterminds and the many people that are involved in Canada’s worst act of aviation terrorism and the largest mass murder in Canadian history have not been held accountable,” said Deepak Khandelwal of Oakville, Ont.

“(Malik’s) death, however it came by, does take a lot more of the secrets that he had to the grave, which we will never know about.”

Khandelwal was 17 when his older sisters, Chandra and Manju, were killed on Flight 182.

He said Malik’s death was a “shock” that brought back 37 years of pain and thoughts about his sisters’ “lost potential.” He said he plans to go to Ireland next week to visit the victims’ memorial in Cork, which he has done many times since the attack.

“I don’t think anyone’s ever happy with violence and the results of violence,” he said of the shooting, adding that he would rather focus on the victims and their families than on Malik.

“There’s just so much potential and innocence that was taken away by these people with such a heinous act, and that’s where — at least for me — that’s what you try to do, is make sure the world doesn’t lose all that.”

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