After a brief lull in attacks on Indians in Australia, three members of the community were “brutally bashed” by a group of around 70 youth while playing here.
26-year-old Sukhdip Singh, his brother Gurdeep Singh and uncle Mukhtair Singh were attacked by the group when they were playing pool in the eastern suburb of Epping on Saturday.
“At around 11′o clock my brother-in-law Sukhdip was playing pool along with few family members when they were attacked by around 70 locals who were attending a party,” the victim’s relative Onkar Singh said.
“They were quitely playing and were trying to avoid trouble even after these locals were trying to provoke them by passing comments,” he said.
The group started telling them to go back to their country. “When they reached the car park to leave the place a huge crowd attacked them and started bashing. The attackers were in their teens and around twenties,” he said. More
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Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called for calm as Indian students led “vigilante” patrols on Wednesday after a second night of
protests in the wake of attacks on foreign students in Sydney and Melbourne.
Scores of Indian students took to the streets of western Sydney, leading to two police arrests, after attacks in both Sydney and Melbourne which have sparked diplomatic protests and fears of an international student exodus from Australia.Read more
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New Delhi has warned Canberra the lucrative Indian education market could be at risk if Australia doesn’t do its utmost to ensure the safety of students from the sub-continent.
India has conveyed to Australia its “deep anguish” over a recent spate of attacks on its students, warning growth in the education sector could be jeopardised if nothing is done to stop the violence.
Education-related travel is Australia’s biggest service export to India, valued at $2 billion in 2007/08, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.more
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