NEW DELHI: Train stations, bus stops, even pavements in and around Melbourne, the Australian city in Victoria which is home to thousands of Indian students, have increasingly turned unsafe with a good number of attacks on migrant youth being reported from the suburbs.
Some of these crimes bear the ‘us-versus-them’ racial overtone while most, according to Victoria Police, come as "assaults and robberies", and many other cases go unreported, possibly for fear of a backlash. The number of Indian students migrating to Australia has seen a continuous rise and over 35,000 boys and girls arrive in the island country every year as securing admission in most of its universities, including 39 run by the government, is much easier.
The Federation of Indian Students in Australia (FISA), which has taken up the concern with Victoria Police, local lawmakers, as well as the Indian government, says the number of attacks, "fortunately directed towards male Indian students only", could be as high as three per day. [...]----------------------------oooOooo---------------------------------- Link… http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/A...ow/2774771.cms
Some of these crimes bear the ‘us-versus-them’ racial overtone while most, according to Victoria Police, come as "assaults and robberies", and many other cases go unreported, possibly for fear of a backlash. The number of Indian students migrating to Australia has seen a continuous rise and over 35,000 boys and girls arrive in the island country every year as securing admission in most of its universities, including 39 run by the government, is much easier.
The Federation of Indian Students in Australia (FISA), which has taken up the concern with Victoria Police, local lawmakers, as well as the Indian government, says the number of attacks, "fortunately directed towards male Indian students only", could be as high as three per day. [...]----------------------------oooOooo---------------------------------- Link… http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/A...ow/2774771.cms
