{"id":33670,"date":"2017-04-04T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T12:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/african-envoys-india-attacks-on-nigerians-racial\/"},"modified":"2017-04-04T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T12:24:25","slug":"african-envoys-india-attacks-on-nigerians-racial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/african-envoys-india-attacks-on-nigerians-racial\/","title":{"rendered":"African envoys: India attacks on Nigerians ‘racial’"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Envoys from African nations in the Indian capital, Delhi, have condemned the handling of recent attacks on Nigerian students in the city.}<\/p>\n

In a statement, the African Heads of Mission said the attacks were “xenophobic and racial”.<\/p>\n

Indian authorities had failed to “sufficiently condemn” the attacks or take “visible deterring measures”, the envoys added.<\/p>\n

The students were attacked last month in Greater Noida, close to Delhi.<\/p>\n

Five Nigerian students were attacked by crowds, while another was beaten by a mob inside a shopping mall.<\/p>\n

The violence was prompted by the death of a local teenager due to a drug overdose. His parents blame Nigerian students for giving him the drugs.<\/p>\n

Police say five people have been arrested over the violence and India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has promised an “impartial” inquiry.<\/p>\n

But the African Heads of Mission said that the response was inadequate, and called for an investigation by the UN Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n

They also called for “strong condemnation from the highest political level (both nationally and locally) of the government of India, as well as expediting legal actions against the perpetrators”.<\/p>\n

The attack on one student inside the shopping mall was recorded on mobile phone cameras by other shoppers and widely circulated on social media.<\/p>\n

The victim told Indian reporters he had been beaten with rods, bricks and knives. He said that no one had helped or even called the police.<\/p>\n

Many Indians have reacted with shame online. But there have been a number of incidents in recent years in which people from African nations living in India have faced apparent discrimination or violence.<\/p>\n

In May 2016 a Congolese man was beaten to death in Delhi after an argument over an auto-rickshaw. Three months before that, a Tanzanian student was assaulted and partially stripped by a mob in the southern city of Bangalore. A Nigerian man living in Goa was stabbed to death in 2013.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, police say a Kenyan woman accused of faking a race attack in Greater Noida will be deported. The woman said she had been dragged out of a taxi by five men two days after the mob violence, but police said their investigation and the taxi’s GPS tracker proved her story wrong. Her visa had expired, they added.<\/p>\n

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Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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