22/03/2014
Issue of racist attack on North East Indian people raised at UN :: Full Statement
43rd Meeting 25th Regular Session of Human Rights Council
21 March 2014
By :: Babloo Loitongbam
Thank you Mr. President!
Liberation would like to draw your kind attention to the increasing racist attacks on persons hailing from the North Eastern States of India in Delhi and other metropolitan cities of India. On 29 January 2014, Mr. Nido Tania, a young student from Arunachal Pradesh studying in Delhi, was beaten up by some shopkeepers when he angrily responded to their mocking of his peculiar hair style. Delhi police picked him up, forced him to pay rupees ten thousand for the damages caused during the scuffle and then dropped him back from the police station to the same area. The beatings resumed and Nido Tania succumbed to his injuries the next day. Libration is appalled by the total absence of any protection mechanism for the “national or ethnic minority” within the legislative and constitutional framework of the country, in contrast to those enjoyed by their brethren belonging to the “religious and linguistic minorities”.
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Issue of racist attack on North East Indian people raised at UN Human Rights Council 21 Mar 2014 Full Statement