Australian PM Kevin Rudd has condemned the attacks on Indian students in the country and offered his apology. However, the Australian government continues to deny the racist angle to the attacks but has assured Indian foreign minister S M Krishna that such attacks would not recur. Krishna had also summoned the Australian envoy in India to discuss the crisis. “The attacks are appalling in every sense,†Kevin Rudd said. It was a criminal act, opportunistic in nature. There is nothing to suggest it was a racist attack. Four attacks on Indian students have taken place in quick succession, with the first incident being reported May 9. Sravan Kumar Theerthala, a 25-year-old Indian student who was assaulted on Sunday in Melbourne along with three other students, is battling for his life in a hospital’s intensive care unit. Theerthala, who hails from Andhra Pradesh, went to Melbourne to study two years ago. The attackers allegedly hurled racist abuses at Indian students and hit them with a screwdriver. Another Indian student Baljinder Singh was robbed and stabbed in Melbourne on Monday. Singh had left a railway station when two men carrying weapons approached him and demanded money. As he searched through his bag to hand over his wallet he was stabbed in the abdomen, Herald Sun reported. He said: "They just laughed when they stabbed me in the stomach. They laughed at me...I was screaming 'don't kill me, don't kill me'." Australian police on Thursday arrested two teenagers over the beating of yet another Indian student on a Melbourne train. Sourabh Sharma, 21, was beaten by a group of young men as he travelled on a train May 9, Herald Sun reported. Sharma suffered a fractured cheek bone and a broken tooth in the attack, which was captured on closed circuit television cameras.He said he was also racially abused and robbed during the attack. In the latest attack, a student suffered up to 30% burns after a suspected petrol bomb was hurled at him in his home in Sydney. Kumar was sitting on his bed in the front room of his rented house when an unknown person threw what neighbours say was a small petrol bomb through his window. The explosion and subsequent fire left Kumar with burns to a third of his body. source : Times of India
Why do Indians go to Australia in the first place......chasing a mirage. And I bet after all this hoopla is settled, people will forget it and next time India will top as the biggest source of migrants to AUS
Most of them seem to go for education. This is not new same attacks happened on Lebanese people which was far worse look up Cronulla Riots. Most White Australians have convict ancestry as they were once prisoners from Europe its in their blood.
When we all know this then why to go there when some person dont give us respect we stop going to there home right then do the same here We have good education system in India also
