A real life meeting. My wife and I were vacationing in 2005 in an Amazon resort in Peru. In that lodge we met two Canadian professors and their teenage son. All three well educated, articulate and not racist. However, none of them was even remotely aware of the Kanishka bombing. The father was even asking me incredulously if I was referring to the Lockerbie bombing. That was a wake-up call on the ignorance among Canadians on the worst terrorist attack that originated on their soil. Not just them but even among friends, coworkers, acquaintances hardly anything is known about it. I also met an elderly Irish salesman who was from Cork, Ireland. The gentleman was educated and loved India and even knew about people like Netaji. However, even he was unaware of the bombing even though the plane blew up over Cork.
What India needs to do two things when highlighting Kanishka incident.
A) In addition to the 329 killed they should start remembering the two Japanese baggage handlers killed at Narita airport. Let us not forget that Kanishka was only half the job. Another suitcase had been loaded at Vancouver and blew up prematurely at Narita. The terrorists did not take into account that Japan does not follow daylight savings. A bigger tragedy was averted then if the plane had blown up between Tokyo and Bangkok. Remind Japan that their citizens were also killed.
B} Start questioning the integrity of RCMP. If after 20 years and hundreds of millions of dollars they cannot solve it then it proves two things. Either they are grossly incompetent. Or their job was to make sure that all traces were wiped out. I believe it is the latter.