{"id":13932,"date":"2017-04-04T19:30:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T19:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=13932"},"modified":"2017-04-04T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T19:30:23","slug":"african-envoys-in-india-condemn-attacks-on-nigerians-demand-un-human-rights-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=13932","title":{"rendered":"African Envoys In India Condemn Attacks On Nigerians, Demand UN Human Rights Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"darkgreytext\">Envoys from African nations in the Indian capital, Delhi, have condemned the handling of recent attacks on Nigerian students in the city.<\/h5>\n<div class=\"main_image\">Last month&#8217;s violence happened in Greater Noida, close to the Indian capital<\/div>\n<div class=\"legible\">\n<p>In a statement, the African Heads of Mission said the attacks were &#8220;xenophobic and racial&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Indian authorities had failed to &#8220;sufficiently condemn&#8221; the attacks or take &#8220;visible deterring measures&#8221;, the envoys added.<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The students were attacked last month in Greater Noida, close to Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Five Nigerian students were attacked by crowds, while another was beaten by a mob inside a shopping mall.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Police say five people have been arrested over the violence and India&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has promised an &#8220;impartial&#8221; inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>But the African Heads of Mission said that the response was inadequate, and called for an investigation by theCouncil.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=12803&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They also called for &#8220;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&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Indian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13933\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Indian-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Indian-300x144.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Indian.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0stabbed to death\u00a0in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s GPS tracker proved her story wrong. Her visa had expired, they added. (BBC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Envoys from African nations in the Indian capital, Delhi, have condemned the handling of recent attacks on Nigerian students in the city. Last month&#8217;s violence happened in Greater Noida, close to the Indian capital In a statement, the African Heads of Mission said the attacks were &#8220;xenophobic and racial&#8221;. 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