World IN BRIEF : CANADA : Sikh Gets 10 Years for Tokyo Bombing
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A Canadian judge sentenced a Sikh man to 10 years in prison for helping to make the explosive that killed two Japanese baggage handlers in a Tokyo airport bomb explosion. British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Raymond Paris last month convicted Inderjit Singh Reyat on charges arising from the June, 1985, blast. British, Indian and Canadian authorities say the blast was part of a reprisal campaign against the Indian government for the 1984 killing of Sikh militants. The bomb, placed aboard a flight in Vancouver, apparently exploded prematurely in Tokyo before it could be put aboard an Air-India flight.
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