While Gandhi has mostly dodged a wider Canadian trend of destroying statuary, he has been targeted by Sikh separatists as a symbol of India.
A statue of Mohandas Gandhi on the campus of Simon Fraser University that had its head removed this week by vandals using heavy-duty power tools.A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi on the campus of Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University had its head removed on Monday night, the latest instance in an emerging Canadian trend of Gandhi statues being vandalized or defaced.
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