Thousands of Indian Students have protested in Melbourne to bring attention to the recent spate of attacks on many of their countrymen.
What started as a peaceful display turned into a mini riot, with at least 2 arrests. The Indian students hurled items at police and stormed Flinders Street Station.
I'm afraid that the Indian Students have just lost the Public relations war on this issue. Peaceful protests in Australia are a way of life and are a good way of raising public and government awareness. Violent protests have no place in this society.
This rioting by the students will turn public opinion against them. The organisers should be condemned for allowing this protest to escalate into violence. I hate to say it, but these Indian students make the CFMEU protests look like a mothers club meeting.
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Hi Young Grump being an Indian who lived in Aus for 12 years who is currently living in india i'am with you 100%, I would never think Australia as racist and as you pointed out very well any society will have the shades of discrimination and sterio typing the whole nation is childish and any protest which is not peaceful will sway the sympathy from these students and will be condemned by the larger section of the society who might be otherwise emphathetic towards these guys.
None of u have actually faced this situation ,i have been vitnessing it from three years!I dont have any big hopes from Police and australian Government!ofcourse Australia is a nice place to live but deep down in reality not tht easy to live with all this rasicm!it is there ...n it hurts guys,specially whn u dont have any hope!and y these guys brust into anger coz they have been protesting from morning till midnight n there was not a single Official from Australia and India to talk to thm and on top of tht Policemen threw indian flag on d floor !Rest u guys to decide!
Watch out Aussies... There are over a million of you living outside of Australia and you are in minority there... These expats might have to endure worst treatment very soon...
F*ck Ozzies
^ Idiot, its not only aussies that rob indians, I have only heard of very little aussies robbing indians.
The majority i have heard of is maoris and asians robbing indians.
You want to see racism of Indians? Go to Dubai and see how the arabs treat people from the sub continent. These poor people from villages get paid a pittance for their hard work and effort to build the arabs pyramids of the middle east.
These people are subjected to daily torture of sub standard living conditions, exposure to 45+ degrees temperature working conditions and the arabs dont even pay them the respect they deserve for buiding their empire.
Whereas in Australia these people are given a chance to live like other westerners and treated equally amongst other old and new Australians.
If Indians want to be treated equally they must accept that Australians are treated with the same violence and hardships these young students are subjected to.
Minority groups are treated equally if not better then some of our less fortunate Australians.
You indians are the biggest bunch of greedy hypocritical people ever. All you do is complain and want and want, u take and dont give back! U smell our country up with your unwashed armpits and curry and quite frankly i would love to see the back of you. I am glad people robbed and bashed you and hope it is a more common practice!
yeah ithink its not a rasist act i think its getting crowded in the kitchen so if ya cant handlle the heat piss off back
If you dont like it here go home! you won't be missed.
these illiterate punjabis are over reacting...they are spoiling the image of a peaceful indians bcoz their agendas were always voilent.so they are spreading this shit now here in melbourne...oh F*k back guys if u dont like it here...i ve been living here for 3 YEARS nothing happened to me ever
Fuck Indians!!!
where are the cowboys when we need them?
if you dont like our life here go back
disappointing to see lack of intellgient comments - shows the class of a typical aussie? maybe the british did the right thing and kick you out!
SHUT THE FUCK UP..........ITS UR TURN .....WHAT DIDNOT HAPPEN TO YOU FOR 3 YEARS IS GOING TO HAPPEN NOW........U FUCKING IDIOT U DONT KNOW HW IT FEELS LIKE WHEN U ARE IN THAT SITUATION..........
Thanks for the CAPS. Despite that, i, and im sure everyone else has no idea what you are saying anon.
Last weekend there were 11 stabbings in Melbourne. However, this was buried deep under the story about how an Indian man was stabbed when he was hanging around outside a train station at 2am. Victoria also has the highest homicide rate in Australia. Although media outlets would love to have you believe it, these Indian people getting stabbed is just a small, sensationalised part of the larger issue, which is that general violence trends are on the rise. But what do I know, I'm just the trash the British 'kicked out'. (http://www.theage.com.au/national/states-grim-reality-homicide-rate-tops-nation-20100313-q59p.html)
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