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09-06-2009, 11:11 PM
A protest by hundreds of Indian students over a series of assaults against them in Australia turned into a vigilante attack, police said. Officers used dogs to control a crowd that had gathered armed with sticks and baseball bats in Harris Park, Sydney.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090609/twl-india-mob-seeks-revenge-for-australi-3fd0ae9.html
India Mob Seeks Revenge For Australia Attacks
10 hours 9 mins ago
A protest by hundreds of Indian students over a series of assaults against them in Australia turned into a vigilante attack, police said.
Officers used dogs to control a crowd that had gathered armed with sticks and baseball bats in Harris Park, Sydney.
The demonstration was staged after an Indian man in his early 20s was attacked by a group of men of Middle Eastern descent, police said.
It was believed to be the first time the students reacted violently to the series of attacks, which have caused outrage in India and strained diplomatic relations between Canberra and New Delhi.
The issue came to a head late last month when student Sravan Kumar Theerthala was left in a coma after being stabbed with a screwdriver by gatecrashers at a party in Melbourne.
Police said the violence was not race-related but stemmed from a series of "opportunistic" crimes against Indians.
Assistant Police Commissioner Dave Owens said the violence escalated rapidly and warned the students not to take the law into their own hands.
He said: "It started with eggs being thrown from a motor vehicle progressively into a group of people with baseball bats, and a brick was thrown and then what I would classify as a vigilante group of protesters coming out on the street and taking out a reprisal.
"I do not encourage reprisal attacks in any way. Leave the detection of offenders and their arrest to us."
The Indian Prime Minister said he was willing to talk to Australian leaders to deal with the problem of attacks against Indian students.
Manmohan Singh added: "I have been appalled by the senseless violence and crime, some of which are racist in nature."
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called in the former head of the country's elite Special Air Service regiment to lead a task force examining the attacks.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090609/twl-india-mob-seeks-revenge-for-australi-3fd0ae9.html
India Mob Seeks Revenge For Australia Attacks
10 hours 9 mins ago
A protest by hundreds of Indian students over a series of assaults against them in Australia turned into a vigilante attack, police said.
Officers used dogs to control a crowd that had gathered armed with sticks and baseball bats in Harris Park, Sydney.
The demonstration was staged after an Indian man in his early 20s was attacked by a group of men of Middle Eastern descent, police said.
It was believed to be the first time the students reacted violently to the series of attacks, which have caused outrage in India and strained diplomatic relations between Canberra and New Delhi.
The issue came to a head late last month when student Sravan Kumar Theerthala was left in a coma after being stabbed with a screwdriver by gatecrashers at a party in Melbourne.
Police said the violence was not race-related but stemmed from a series of "opportunistic" crimes against Indians.
Assistant Police Commissioner Dave Owens said the violence escalated rapidly and warned the students not to take the law into their own hands.
He said: "It started with eggs being thrown from a motor vehicle progressively into a group of people with baseball bats, and a brick was thrown and then what I would classify as a vigilante group of protesters coming out on the street and taking out a reprisal.
"I do not encourage reprisal attacks in any way. Leave the detection of offenders and their arrest to us."
The Indian Prime Minister said he was willing to talk to Australian leaders to deal with the problem of attacks against Indian students.
Manmohan Singh added: "I have been appalled by the senseless violence and crime, some of which are racist in nature."
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called in the former head of the country's elite Special Air Service regiment to lead a task force examining the attacks.