Racial attacks on Indians—Enough is enough
With the attack on Mir Kazim Ali Khan in Melbourne on Monday (reported in the
The Australian government can no longer label these attacks as petty crimes. Nor can it claim that there is no racial angle to these attacks.
These attacks prove one of the two things.
One: that these are indeed racial attacks in which case Australian government needs to do more than provide lip service by trying to explain this away as petty crimes and deal with this as such.
Two: that these are common crimes in which case Australia cannot claim to be a safe country no matter what kind of statistics it chooses to throw at us.
The total area of
The pressure on land and other resources is ten times more in
The attacks have been too many and too frequent. Strangely, only Indians are being targeted each time except for one. It is too much of a coincidence if it is true. The emerging pattern of crime is alarming.
When a similar attack was carried out on Indians in
Considering the fact that a huge chunk of the expatriate students in
In any case, enough is enough. The time for explanations and justifications is over. It is time for the Australian government to act and show to the world that a government which can maintain some semblance of law and order still exists in
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