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		Shaheed Tara Singh Hayer was born in Paddi Jagir, a small village in Punjab, India, on Nov. 15, 1936.
		Hayer’s killing was believed by some to be an attempt to intimidate voters prior to upcoming Sikh temple elections in Vancouver and Abbotsford, British Columbia.
		At the awards dinner, Hayer’s son, David, who has continued to put out the paper, said that his father’s death demonstrates that attacks on the press can take place even in Canada and that his dedication should give courage to all journalists who are persecuted for their work.
	www.globaljournalist.org /archive/Magazine/Hayer-20002q.html (562 words)

	Tara Singh Hayer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hayer was born in Paddi Jagir, a small village in Punjab, India.
		Hayer received the Journalist Award by the Municipality of Surrey for courageous and outstanding contribution to Punjabi Journalism in Canada, and the International Award of Distinction for Journalism from the International Association of Punjabi Authors and Artists.
		On October 15, 1995, Hayer gave an affidavit to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police regarding a 1985 meeting in London, England in the offices of the Punjabi-language newspaper Desh Pardesh, where he overheard a conversation between Tarsem Singh Purewal, the editor of Desh Pardesh, and accused bomber Ajaib Singh Bagri.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tara_Singh_Hayer (629 words)

	Tara Singh Hayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hayer successfully sued the editors for libel), you should also know his wife is a harpy, his son is a fraud artist and his daughters, whores.
		Hayer reported the newspaper's editor had publicly carried on with a woman "the way a drunken white man does with a white woman."In his editorials, Mr.
		Hayer unflinchingly provoked hard-line Sikhs by stridently denouncing the use of terroristic violence in the Sikh-nationalist cause.
	www.omnivore.org /jon/orwell/tara_singh_hayer.htm (365 words)

	Eye Weekly - Cowardice at the CBC - 11.26.98
		Tara Singh Hayer was the editor of the Indo-Canada Times, a Punjabi-language newspaper he founded in the Vancouver area in 1978.
		Hayer campaigned in favor of free speech and against the actions of hardliners in the fight for an independent Sikh homeland in India.
		Hayer's crime was to advocate moderation, openness and freedom of speech in the face of religious fanatics with guns and bombs and a well-documented delight in using them to kill people.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_11.26.98/news_views/media26.html (822 words)

	A triumph for extremism
		HAYER was born in Paddi Jagir in Punjab on November 15, 1936.
		In the early and mid-1980s, Hayer was affected by the 'nationalist fervour' of Sikhs.
		Secondly, Hayer resisted the imposition of fundamentalism and obscurantism.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1525/15250430.htm (1649 words)

	Hayer’s story not so simple \| Straight.com Vancouver
		Hayer, founding editor and publisher of the Indo-Canadian Times, is believed to be the first Canadian journalist to be silenced by murder.
		Hayer agreed to testify if the Crown brought charges against those involved in the plot, which resulted in the deaths of 329 passengers and crew aboard Air India Flight 182 as well as two baggage handlers in a separate blast at the Narita Airport in Japan.
		Hayer’s son, Dave, MLA for Surrey-Tynehead, told the Straight that Parmar and many others were not militants in the early days.
	209.31.179.201 /article/hayer-s-story-not-so-simple (856 words)

	IFEX :: Newspaper publisher killed
		Hayer, who published the "Indo-Canadian Times", Canada's largest and oldest Punjabi weekly, was an outspoken critic of violent Sikh fundamentalists and had already been the target of an assassination attempt at his newspaper office in 1988.
		Hayer's son, Sukhdev Hayer, said his father had arrived moments earlier at his Surrey, British Columbia home from his newspaper office, and had just transferred from his vehicle to his wheelchair when he was shot.
		Hayer said it was important to continue work on the paper despite the murder because his father had fought for press freedom in Canada.
	www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/7130 (497 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - World
		Hayer, who was killed last year, was chosen by nine judges, many of them senior journalists and writers and themselves amongst the 114 inductees in the Hall of Fame in the past 35 years since the Toronto Press Club was established.
		Hayer’s induction into the Hall of Fame was announced at a formal dinner at downtown Toronto’s prestigious Ontario Club with the cream of the nation’s journalist community present.
		Dave Hayer later told IANS, “Tara Singh Hayer stood up for democracy and freedom of thought.” The slain editor, a moderate Sikh, strongly opposed the violent movement for Khalistan in Punjab and had therefore earned the ire of the separatists, many of whom were in Canada.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000504/world.htm (3403 words)

	O.B.C. Biography - Tara Singh Hayer
		Hayer has never wavered in his commitment to tolerance, peace and understanding between cultural communities.
		Hayer has received the Journalist Award by the Municipality of Surrey for courageous and outstanding contribution to Punjabi Journalism in Canada.
		Tara Singh Hayer has continued, even when faced with violence, to be a voice of moderation and reason.
	www.protocol.gov.bc.ca /protocol/prgs/obc/1995/1995_THayer.htm (203 words)

	Academic Adventures...featuring Jim Bombay: Tara Singh Hayer - first journalist to be killed in Canada for his work
		Tara Singh Hayer was the founder and publisher of the Indo-Canadian Times, a punjabi language weekly based in Greater Vancouver which was established in 1978.
		And Hayer's son...well, he'll a Liberal MLA in the BC Provincial government.
		Amongst the three stratas, the micro level seems to be fulfilled as most adult indo-canadians in BC know whom Hayer was, and the mass media level know whom he is - a hero to the cause, a journalist whom died trying to share the truth with his readers.
	weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca /bhuvinder/archives/013268.html (831 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Call for end to Sikh murder mystery
		Tara Singh Hayer, editor of the Indo-Canadian Times, was gunned down at his home in Surrey, British Columbia 10 years after being paralysed by another gunman.
		Gurbux Singh Virk, editor of Des Pardes, told BBC News Online it appeared the police had closed the file on his predecessor's murder and he said he was "disappointed" with their attitude.
		She said Mr Hayer had agreed to be a witness against suspects in the Air India case and much of his evidence was based on information he had received from Mr Purewal.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/748866.stm (1501 words)

	News Headings
		Mr Hayer was killed by unidentified persons in Canada seven months after a hukamnama by the Sikh clergy on "Guru ka langar".
		The hukamnama was issued on April 20 when Mr Hayer and six other NRI Sikhs were ex-communicated from the Panth for defying the edict.
		The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President, Mr Amarinder Singh, said Hayer was a bold journalist, who carried his struggle against fundamentalists despite the fact that he was physically a handicap.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98nov21/head6.htm (355 words)

	The Kanishka verdict: The families' agony
		Rattan Singh Kalsi had travelled from Canada's east coast to Vancouver on the other side of the country, in the hope that the two men charged with murder and conspiracy to plant a bomb and blow up the Air-India 747 Kanishka on June 23, 1985 would be held guilty.
		Dave Hayer is the son of Tara Singh Hayer, the editor who turned against the cult of violence, which wanted an independent Punjab nation called Khalistan.
		Hayer is convinced his father was shot dead because he had been critical of the Sikh militants and the way the investigation into the 1985 bombing was being conducted.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0305/54.html (1435 words)

	Welcome to the Now
		Dave Hayer isn't expecting charges in the 1998 assassination of his father Tara Singh Hayer to be laid until after the Air India bombing trial concludes in Vancouver.
		Those accused in the bombing, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Bagri, were charged on Oct. 27, 2000 with multiple criminal offences in connection with the Air India bombing, and an explosion at the New Tokyo International Airport in Narita, Japan, that caused the death of two baggage handlers.
		Inderjit Singh Reyat, a co-accused, pleaded guilty on Feb. 10 to manslaughter in connection with the Air India explosion and was sentenced to five years in jail.
	www.thenownewspaper.com /issues03/031103/news/031103nn4.html (408 words)

	A battle for supremacy
		The absence of the controversial Akal Takht Jathedar, Ranjit Singh, at the inauguration was politically significant.
		Jathedar Manjit Singh of the Keshgarh Sahib Takht had been expelled from the precincts of the Akal Takht earlier this year after a bitter battle for theocratic power, and through the affair Hamdard had been the principal critic of the Akal Takht Jathedar.
		HAYER'S was only the second Khalistan political execution of its kind overseas, though Canada-based terrorists had been involved in several crimes elsewhere, notably the bombing of the Air-India Boeing 747 Kanishka.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1525/15250410.htm (1311 words)

	Japnaam Singh: Tara Hayer - Respected Journalist?
		This morning, the Vancouver Sun ran an article quoting Dave Hayer, the son of Tara Hayer, upset over the chanting of Khalistan slogans at the Nagar Keertan (reported a couple of posts down).
		Hayer was brilliant at sensing change and recognizing the appropriate time for offering a pro-Indian government message to the Sikh community.
		Hayer is acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of Sikh militancy in Canada.
	www.japnaamsingh.com /2005/04/tara-hayer-respected-journalist.html (456 words)

	The Sikh Times - News and Analysis - Personal Revenge Motivated Hayer Assassination
		Singh has denied the accusation and said he was working in Edmonton on the day Mr.
		Hayer, a recipient of several awards including the Order of Canada, had been a controversial figure in the B.C. Punjabi-speaking community for more than 15 years before his death.
		Hayer's life 11 years ago that left him a paraplegic, with two bullets lodged in his spine.
	www.sikhtimes.com /news_071699a.html (502 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Kanishka Bombers Linked with Sikh Editor's Murder, Says Son
		Dave Hayer believes that while one person pulled the trigger, there were a number of conspirators in his father's murder.
		Singh told reporters early this week that the night Hayer was assassinated, he was working with a snow-hauling unit of Edmonton City.
		Tara Singh, who had been attacked several times before the final shooting, was killed in his garage.
	www.rediff.com /news/1999/jul/15us.htm (770 words)

	IFEX :: Newspaper editor's assassination labelled revenge attack
		As the "Star" reported, the police's substantiation of the motive behind Hayer's murder shocked journalists in Canada, who are worried about the impact the incident may have in discouraging reporters from covering potentially controversial stories.
		Hayer was shot to death in the garage of his Surrey, British Columbia home on the evening of 18 November 1998 while moving from his car to his wheelchair.
		Hayer - a recipient of the Order of Canada and many other awards - was an outspoken critic of violent Sikh extremists and had already been the target of an assassination attempt at his newspaper office in 1988.
	www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/8327 (314 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Tara Singh Hayer Assault Case Reactivated
		Hayer, who had to use a wheelchair following the first attempt on his life, continued writing against Khalistanis and fundamentalists and was killed last year in his garage after he returned from the offices of his publication, The Indo-Canadian Times.
		While the RCMP continues to probe Hayer's killing, it is not commenting if same individuals are involved in both cases.
		A young man, Harkirat Singh Bagga, was convicted of attempted murder in the 1988 shooting after being captured near the scene.
	www.rediff.com /news/1999/nov/19us1.htm (453 words)

	Manjit Singh Rattu
		According to report of Tribune in 2001, Manjit Singh Rattu, a small-time scribe, based in SAS Nagar during the peak of terrorism in the 1980s, had allegedly resurfaced in the city three months back under the new identity of R. Ahmed.
		Hayer expressed his concern about the mysterious journalist to a number of his friends and relatives.
		Hayer was an outspoken figure in B.C.'s large Sikh community, regularly targeting Sikh fundamentalists in his columns, before he was killed.
	www.nriinternet.com /NRI_Fraud/Canada/Manjit_Rattu/index.htm (865 words)

	Welcome to the Now - Features
		Dave Hayer, speaking at a memorial service at the Guru Nanak Sikh Temple marking the fifth anniversary of the death of his father, Tara Singh Hayer (below), believes those responsible for his father's murder will eventually be brought to justice.
		Tara Singh Hayer, a supporter of Khalistan, had lived his life under siege for standing by his conviction that it is unacceptable to establish a Sikh state, namely Khalistan in northwestern India, through violent means.
		The Vancouver Sun revealed in March that Hayer was not only on the witness list but that he had told police he heard Ajaib Singh Bagri take credit for the Air India Flight 182 bombing in 1985 that killed 329 people off the coast of Ireland.
	www.thenownewspaper.com /issues03/121103/features.html (966 words)

	To trial after 15 years
		The 53-year-old Ripudaman Singh Malik is one of the three main suspects along with Inderjit Singh Reyat, the alleged bomb-maker, and Talwinder Singh Parmar, the founder of Babbar Khalsa, who is now dead.
		Tara Singh Hayer, publisher and editor of the Punjabi weekly newspaper Indo-Canadian Times, was also alleged to have become an informer after first supporting the Khalistan cause.
		David Hayer, son of Tara Singh Hayer, publisher and editor of Indo-Canadian Times, who was shot dead in 1998, with his wife Isabelle during a press conference.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1723/17230610.htm (1924 words)

	The Sikh Times - News and Analysis - Testimony: Babbar Khalsa Ordered Tara Singh Hayer Slaying
		No journalists were present for the explosive testimony of Delta police Staff-Sgt. John Robin, who first received the account of the Hayer slaying from a lawyer of one of the men accused in the unrelated gang slaying.
		Robin was testifying at the murder trial of Hardip Uppal, who is accused of killing his former gang associate Gurpreet Singh Sohi in Delta on September 14, 2000.
		Hayer was expected to be a witness in the Air India bomb trial when he was shot to death.
	www.sikhtimes.com /news_121403a.html (602 words)

	American Journalism Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The latest fatality was Tara Singh Hayer, the publisher of a Punjabi-language newspaper in Surrey, British Columbia, who had courageously defied the threats of Sikh fundamentalists.
		Hayer, the Sikh publisher murdered in British Columbia, was buried last year without ever being mentioned by the New York Times or the Washington Post--despite the international ramifications of his killing.
		Hayer, for instance, was well-known in Sikh communities around the world--including in the United States--for his refusal to cower in the face of threats from religious and political zealots.
	www.ajr.org /article.asp?id=766 (4471 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Hayer
		Ajaib Singh Bagri had been charged in connection with an attempt on the life of Surrey newspaper publisher Tara Singh Hayer in August 1988.
		Indo-Canadian newspaper publisher Tara Singh Hayer, an opponent of militant Sikh separatism, was left disabled in a 1988 shooting only to be shot dead 10 years...
		Accused Air India bomber Ajaib Singh Bagri was to face a second trial in connection with the attempted murder of newspaper publisher Tara Singh Hayer.
	nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/H/Hayer.shtml (747 words)

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