Twenty-five Canadian MPs from three federal parties have written to Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino calling for a direct sponsorship program to Save Afghan Sikhs and Hindu refugees so that they can be brought to safety in Canada .
The letter, signed by 16 CPC, 6 NDP and 3 Green MPs, asks the Canadian Minister of Immigration to use his powers under section 25.2 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to create a special program.There are less than 800 Sikhs and Hindus who remain in Afghanistan and direct sponsorship programs have been created by this government in the past.
The letter expresses “concern about the existential threat to religious minorities in Afghanistan, specifically, Sikhs and Hindus.”
Afghan Sikhs and Hindus have been subject to increasing persecution in recent years, including the murder of 25 Sikhs on March 25, 2020 in an attack on Gurdwara Guru Har Rai Sahib in Kabul by ISIS-K terrorists. The community has also been targeted for kidnapping and extortion.
The WSO along with the Manmeet Singh Bhullar Foundation and the Canadian Sikh community have consistently called on the Canadian Government to assist Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan, as Afghan authorities have been unable to offer meaningful protection of their basic human rights.
https://www.sikhnet.com/news/25-canadian-mps-call-special-refugee-program-afghan-sikhs-hindus?
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