Students racially attacked in Aus.
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http://www.ndtv.com/news/diaspora/indian_students_attacked_in_melbourne.php
Four Indian students were injured after they were allegedly assaulted by a couple of teenagers in Melbourne.
It was the second attack against Indians studying in Australia this month. The incident took place on Saturday night at a party.
Two people gatecrashed the party and started thrashing the students. One of the four, an Andhra student Shravan was attacked with a screwdriver, which pierced his head. He is in a critical state.
In a separate incident in Melbourne earlier this month, another Indian student was thrashed on a train by a group of men.
Police have released CCTV footage of the bashing of an Indian student hoping the public can help identify the perpetrators.
India says the High Commissioner in Canberra has rushed to Melbourne to ensure that the student who has been seriously injured receives the best possible treatment and that the authorities ensure that the culprits are brought to justice.
India's Foreign Minister, S M Krishna said that he was appalled by the attack on Indian students.
"We will impress upon Australian authorities that such attacks should not be permitted. It is Australia's responsibility to ensure security and well-being of students," he said. -
Chris Johnston
May 19, 2007
MELBOURNE'S new underclass lives in substandard housing with often high rents. Increasingly, its members are the victims of violent, racial crime. By night, they work in menial jobs where exploitation by employers is common.
By day, they study. The number of Indian students in Melbourne has tripled in the past three years. It is believed there are now up to 18,000 at universities, colleges and TAFEs.
After Chinese students, they are the state's fastest-growing demographic.
Last year, international education was worth $2.9 billion to Victoria.
Many do well. They live well, have good part-time jobs, feel safe. They succeed. But many struggle.
"Students in trouble will not speak up," said Gautam Gupta, from the Federation of Indian Students of Australia, an ad hoc, unfunded body.
"We have had people suffering badly at work but they won't even tell us where they work. That is our culture.
"We don't discuss things unless we are very proud of them. And many students are ashamed."
The Age reported two weeks ago that the City of Melbourne, the State Government and Melbourne University were grappling with the explosion in city apartment blocks populated almost entirely by South-East Asian students, mostly from China.
Research warned that the $300-a-week apartments were fostering racial segregation and the students were cut off from the wider Melbourne community.
There is no such concern for Indian students, however. Most attend cheaper tertiary institutions and live out of the city, in the cheaper western and northern suburbs. They "suffer in silence", according to Mr Gupta.
A community meeting is being held today at Victoria University in St Albans to begin to sort through the issues.
It will be attended by the Multicultural Commission of Victoria and Victoria Police.
Superintendent Inghard Ehrenberg, of Victoria Police's community and cultural division, said there had been a rise in racially motivated crimes — including assaults and thefts with weapons — on Indian students, particularly at western and northern suburban railway stations. Many went unreported.
"We need to ensure they aren't targets just because they look different and speak different," he said. "They are a vulnerable group."
In one attack, two Indian students were each hit on the head with a bat at Tottenham station in March. The youths who attacked them taunted them racially.
"This happens a lot now," said Mr Gupta. "People say 'bin Laden' or something like that. They think we look odd.
"They see our brown skin and maybe some headgear, a turban, and they say things. What can we do? That is why we stick together."
Housing is the biggest problem many Indian students face. Several real estate agents in the western suburbs now refuse to rent properties to them.
"Agents tell me that they have closed their books on Indian students because they say, through their experiences, they can have 10 or 12 people living in the place," said Ok Chang, a student housing officer at Victoria University.
Rebecca Harrison, from the Tenants Union of Victoria, said there was a perception among property managers that Indian students were more likely to damage property or leave a mess.
"It's a strange, discriminatory prejudice," she said. "But this is what they are generally faced with."
The tenants' union campaigned last year against a company called Victoria Student Housing, run by former heads of the failed Melbourne University Student Union, Benjamin Cass and Darren Ray. The tenants' union claimed they were renting inferior properties to Indian students. The company is no longer operating.
Ms Chang said unlicensed boarding houses in central Footscray — in which a run-down house is partitioned into separate bed-sits, costing about $120 per week to rent — were now popular with Indian students. Rip-offs involving bond payments and evictions are common.
International students can work only 20 hours a week under the terms of their visa. Many Indian students in Melbourne are night cleaners in city office blocks, emptying rubbish, wiping kitchenettes, vacuuming floors and scrubbing toilets.
The Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union estimates that up to 1000 Indians and Sri Lankans, plus some South Americans, are CBD night cleaners.
The union's assistant secretary, Jess Walsh, calls them an "invisible army".
"They go in when everyone else has left," she said.
"No one would know they even exist. Invisibility in the community is a very real issue here."
The students are paid reasonably well — about $18 an hour — but the union claims cleaning firms are increasingly exploiting staff by making them do the same amount of work in reduced hours, and not paying overtime.
Vijay, 22, from Mumbai, has cleaned office blocks for the entire four years of his studies. He would not give his full name, nor where he studied, for fear of jeopardising his degree, his visa or his job.
Vijay said it was common for him to be told to clean 60 kitchenettes in four hours, or an entire toilet block in 15 minutes.
"They don't give a damn about the person," he said. "For $18 an hour, you cannot have the blood of a cleaner."
Aditi Gupta, 20, from Ambala in the north of India, has worked from 11pm until 7am at a McDonald's in Collingwood for eight months.
She studies hospitality management at Carrick Institute of Education in Bourke Street.
Aditi has had her troubles, at work and at college. It was hard to fit in. But she said, in a way, it was good.
"Living in Melbourne," she said, "has taught me how to struggle through life." -
I dunt know all these attacks are just isolated cases or the tip of an iceberg.
I have read Indian students working as part time taxi drivers in oz
were attacked.
There were few old news on Indian students assualted in Oz.
In fact the situation is serious that a
''Bollywood legend refuse to accept an honorary doctorate from a Brisbane university to protest against a wave of attacks on Indian students....''
In order not to be labelled as anti--oz,i try not to tell u all these hate attacks
in the past.
But news and facts speak volume for itself.
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u can just search'' Indian students + Australia'' from Google under NEWS.
Oh my God!!20 incidents!!
some one here will say there are 21 million people and may be
50,000 Indian students in Oz.A few dozen cases is not a problem!!
When your loved one is attacked,this is a very serious problem.
This is time Singapore EDB,Tourism Board.MOE, MIT etc to do road
show in India.Slogans are---
We are small,but we are safe.
All racist attacks will be dealt with by Internal Security Act.
Attackers will be tried behind closed doors!!
You will sleep soundly at night.
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I almost falls from my chair when i read this from news quoted below.
''(Oz Foreign Minister )Smith said Australia was trying to bring the attackers to justice and ensure a safe environment for all international students.
"Australia generally has low crime and violence rates," he said.'''
The FM does not know that Oz ----
Crimes rate of Oz metro cities are few times higher than New York,LA,Las Vegas etc
We have been taught ,through US movies and TV series,
that US metro cities,like NY,LA,Las Vegas are crime infested.
U may be right,until u read official info.
The average crime rate of Oz metro cities is about
7500 cases per 100,000 population.
u can see here
http://www.sgforums.com/forums/10/topics/330341?page=16
Crime rate in Victoria,10 times more than SG per 100,000 pax last
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news from Austrlia and Indian medias.
20 incidents of attacks on Indians in a month in Sydney
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Hindu - 4�时�"We have a particular current problem with Indian students," Smith told Network Ten. "We're doing everything that we can, both with the Indian community in ...Assaults on Indian students a problem: Stephen Smith
Melbourne (IANS): Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has termed the attacks on Indian students a "problem" and assured that the government would do everything to prevent further assaults.
"We have a particular current problem with Indian students," Smith told Network Ten.
"We're doing everything that we can, both with the Indian community in Australia and India itself ... but also working very closely with the relevant state authorities," he said.
Smith's comments came amid outrage and concern in India at the wave of allegedly racist attacks on Indian students, the Sydney Herald reported.
The issue has been discussed at the diplomatic level with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaking to his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd and urging him to take all possible steps to ensure the security of Indians in Australia.
The Australian government has assured India that a slew of steps, including increased patrolling and setting up of a hotline, have been taken to ensure the safety of over 80,000 Indian students in the country.
Smith said Australia was trying to bring the attackers to justice and ensure a safe environment for all international students.
"Australia generally has low crime and violence rates," he said.
Four attacks have taken place on Indian students. While a petrol bomb was thrown at an Indian student in Sydney last Sunday, three attacks took place in Melbourne.
One student, Sravan Kumar Theerthala, who was attacked in Melbourne last Sunday with a screwdriver, is battling for life at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Another student Baljinder Singh was stabbed outside a railway station. He is recuperating at home. A third student, Sourabh Sharma, was viciously assaulted in a train May 9.
Related stories:
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i support aus to attack indians. indians r worth attacking, taking up jobs of singapore, i met a lot of retrenched workers complaining about indians IT's bunch of black color shits
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Originally posted by zichuan:
i support aus to attack indians. indians r worth attacking, taking up jobs of singapore, i met a lot of retrenched workers complaining about indians IT's bunch of black color shits
Attention MODS.The above seem not so good lah.
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The situation in oz seem very bad.
Indian students hold rally in Australia, protest attacks
Sunday 31 May '09
Shaken by a wave of racial assaults, thousands of Indian students chanting 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' on Sunday rallied here demanding justice for victims of recent attacks as Australia scrambled to contain the rising anger and frustration within the community.@@@@@@@@@@@@read for yourself.dunt close your mind. -
Melbourne:
An Indian community leader has claimed that over 20 incidents of "curry bashing" have taken place in Sydney in the past 30 days, and said there is an urgent need to address the issue as most students are reluctant to lodge any complaint out of fear.
Yadu Singh, the head of a committee that has been formed to address concerns about the welfare of Indian students in Australia, also revealed that more than 100 attacks on Indian youths were feared to have taken place in the last 12 months.
Singh, a Sydney-based cardiologist, said the attacks had grown over the last four years and there was an urgent need to address the issue. "There is a term 'curry bashing' for such incidents... and it is used as 'lets go curry bashing'."
"They (the attacks) are not random at all, the people are targeting them. They know these students are easy targets," Singh said.
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The minority will not come out unless they cant stand any more.
This is now wat happening in oz!!Indian students are attacked becos they
are Soft targets,according to Victoria Police!!wat a damn cruel joke!!
The Indian students are enraged by comments from Victoria Police, who have labelled them "soft targets"
Thousands protest against Indian student attacks
Thousands of Indian students have held a noisy protest in central Melbourne, venting their frustration over recent violent attacks on Indian students. More
http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/.....31 May 2009
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another joke.another death.
A safer place?where is the hell?
Victoria Police - Delivering a Safer Victoria
Relatives of Indian students in Oz worry about safety
IBNLive.com - 2�时�The rally has shown that we have the numbers and that we are not soft targets. If we are targeted again, it may get out of hand. The message has been sent ...Indian cab driver found dead on railway tracks in Oz
IBNLive.com - 4�时�Log on to m.ibnlive.com NOW! Jalandhar: The attacks in Australia are not just limited to Indian students but it seems the entire Indian community is a soft ...-
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An Indian has been driving cab in Oz for four year and soon can
get oz citizenship.Do u think he would commit suicide?Vic police says yes.
But his parents say NO.
Upkar Singhwas a taxi driver in Australia for the last four years.. He was a permanent citizen of Australia, and was about to get an Australian citizenship, before fate played this cruel joke on him.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/indian-cab-driver-found-dead-on-railway-tracks-in-oz/93819-3.html
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Vic police chief why Indian students are soft targets.
u have to remember that the crime rate of oz big cities are few times higher
than USA major cities.
Aus police trying to ward off blame?
Times Now.tv - 2009年5月28日After four attacks on Indians were reported out of Australia in the last three weeks, the Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police, Kieran Walshe spoke ...Aus police trying to ward off blame? 29 May 2009, 1139 hrs IST var zz=0;var sldsh=0; var bellyaddiv = ' <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="margin-top:6px;margin-right:6px"><tr><td id="bellyad"></td></tr></table> '; var stindex=100; var stp=150; var taglen=0; var tmp; var tagcheck = new Array("div","span","br","font","a"); var storycontent = document.getElementById("storydiv").innerHTML; var firstpara = storycontent.substring(0,storycontent.toLowerCase().indexOf("<br><br>")).toLowerCase(); function findptt(cnt){ zz++; if(zz == 10)return; var xxx=-1,yyy=-1; var ccnt = cnt; for(ii=0; ii < tagcheck.length; ii++){ xxx = ccnt.indexOf("<"+tagcheck[ii]); if(xxx != -1 && xxx < 150){ stp = stp; var tmp1 = ccnt.substring(ccnt.indexOf("<"+tagcheck[ii]),ccnt.length); yyy = tmp1.indexOf(">"); if(yyy != -1){ taglen += yyy; stp = stp + yyy; yyy+=1; } break; taglen = taglen + tagcheck[ii].length + 3; } } if(xxx == -1 || xxx >= 150){ return; }else{ var tmp2 = ccnt.substring(0,xxx); tmp2 += ccnt.substring((yyy+xxx),ccnt.length); findptt(tmp2); } }findptt(firstpara); if(firstpara.length <= taglen + 150){ stp = firstpara.length; } var tmpminus=0;var tmpcon = storycontent.substring(0,stp);if(tmpcon.lastIndexOf("<") < tmpcon.lastIndexOf(">")){}else{ tmpminus = tmpcon.length - tmpcon.lastIndexOf("<");}stp = stp - tmpminus;tmpcon = storycontent.substring(0,stp);stp = tmpcon.lastIndexOf(' ');tmpcon = storycontent.substring(0,stp) + bellyaddiv + storycontent.substring(stp,storycontent.length); if(sldsh == 0 && doweshowbellyad != 1){}else{ document.getElementById("storydiv").innerHTML = tmpcon; }After four attacks on Indians were reported out of Australia in the last three weeks, the Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police, Kieran Walshe spoke exclusively to TIMES NOW and attempted to ward off the blame put on them by branding Indians as soft targets.
He said, "Indian students are very quiet natured and very passive sort of people. They study very hard, do their work and they tend to travel late at night because of work or because of study. They carry valuable items like iPod, mobile phones and laptops etc. Generally they travel on their own and that makes them vulnerable to people whoa re out there to take the opportunistic stance of stealing property."
However, in a bid to provide assurance that steps are being taken to ensure safety of people in the city, he went on to add, "We have a special task force in the suburbs, which has done some great work in identifying the offenders. There has been a rise in this type of crime and has been a concern for Victoria for a period of time. But we have taken a lot of action for this. This kind of behaviour is disgusting and it does not matter which race, age etc one belongs to, every person should have the right to do their work without being harrassed." -
Fark kevin Rudd!
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qn: what would happen if aussie dudes attacked singaporean guy in oz?
ans:i think newspaper would report it as asian gangs fighting with aussie gangs.a singaporean guy is like a grenade........all his ill feelings and stress bottled up since lee kuan yew days to the present mother of all depressions.
i would say singapore guy would fight n kill even if he gets runned over by a car even.
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EVEN IF SINGAPOREAN GUY HAS HIS LIVER N KIDNEY BURSTING OUT....HE WILL STILL COME STRANGLE ENEMY WITH HIS LAST BREATHE!
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i agree with u terminator 2000, singaporean gusys are much more violent than india national because we have gone tru NS training.
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FOUR INDIAN students, who were brutally assaulted in a racist attack in Melbourne, Australia, now face the specter of returning to empty homes as their houses have been burgled allegedly by the same group of teenagers, who bashed them on weekend.
One of the victims of the attack, Shravan Kumar is in a critical condition and is battling for his life in the hospital. Doctors tending to him are not very optimistic about his chances of recovery.
An organisation of Indian students in Australia has claimed that miscreants broke into the houses of four students, who faced an apparent racist attack and completely emptied the apartments.
Federation of Indian Students Association (FISA) said that the four students, who are in hospital have nothing left in their houses, adding all Indian students were feeling unsafe.
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The burglaries are being linked to the same group of teenagers, who attacked the four Indian students in Melbourne on weekends.
Although the police has not confirmed the alleged burglaries but FISA alleged that this was the handiwork of the same racist group, which attacked them.
In the aftermath of the attacks, Indian government has asked its Australian counterparts to take punitive action and also ensure the safety and security of the students.
“We will impress upon the Australian authorities that such attacks should not be permitted," foreign minister SM Krisha said in a statement.
Indian High Commissioner Sujatha Singh also rushed to Melbourne to take stock of the situation emerging after the racist attack.
The attackers comprising Aussie teenagers had attacked these students over the weekend, which left Kumar seriously injured. One of the victims said that they were abused and had been taunted by their attackers who told them to return to India. -
Despite India's prime minister taking to the Aussie PM, they havent even accepted that the attacks were racist, so its unlikely that we can expect anything concrete to be done by the Australians to protect the Indians out there.The Aussie police in an interview tells that Indians must not stay alone or travel alone at night and keep a low profile, not to keep more than 20$ in pocket, not to carry gadgets like laptops, cellphones etc instead of accepting that a crime has been committed and taking steps to curb such incidences in the future.In such a case. a few steps that India could take in case Australians doesn't wake up to the horror:1. Issue travel advisory to Australia warning people of racist attacks and a threat to their lives.2. Sanctions on imports of all Australian products.Australian police officer is to travel to India to brief prospective students on avoiding street violence in Australia - "safety strategy tips" that Robb would give his own daughter if she was going overseas"Well, let a few Aussies get bashed up in India and then we too will send some officials to teach the Australians to avid street violence? Is this what they want?Instead of owing up to the mistake and apologizing, they are supporting racism outrightly. Its disgraceful. They must rather support with all they can and provide security to Indians out there and make sure that such an incident doesn't occur again.
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The bashings are targeting indians who are going alone from their work to home. 7 white guys bashing 1 indian. I mean, if they really have so much hate, why dont they try to bash group of 7 indians? Why target one individual? What a shame!!!
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Soft Targets?
So how to become Hard Targets ? lol
Travel in a mob, look menacing and carry knuckle dusters.
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I think students should carry elevtrical pod with them for safety.
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i suggest u open an accountat
ttp://www.fisa.org.au--
Federation of Indian Students of Australia Inc ( FISA ) - Integrating, Empowering and Representing Indian Students in Australia.
and read the comments Indian students in Oz.
Then u can see the true picture in oz.
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thanks..i am watching the youtube protest in melbourne by the indian students
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This is time singapore to welcome part of 90,000 Indian students in Oz
to study here.We are small.But we are damn safe.Sometimes,just too boring.
No crime news!!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/01/2585974.htm?section=justin
''"I (OZ PM RUDD)said to (India )Prime Minister Singh that the more than 90,000 Indian students in Australia are welcolme guests in our country."''
This is time to do business.
I suggest we buy a whole pahe advert in oz newspaper.
---U wont be targeted in Singapore.Becos 14 % of Singapore population ARE Indian !!
---We are boring,but safe.
---We are small,but safe.
any more suggestions??
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Originally posted by Nasi lemak in sg is best:
who was the victim there?why?Pl tell us more.U give us the impression that
the victim was Indian.