Tuesday, June 30, 2009

One more victim of racial attacks in Australia

In so far one more racial attack on Indian students in Australia, a 22-year-old Sikh youth was battered by a group of six teenagers, who tried to take out his turban and cut his hair.

Resham Singh, a student of hospitality course who came from Punjab six months ago, became the 20th victim within a month when he was attacked yesterday at Dandenong Station in Melbourne.

Singh, who could not speak English properly, said in Punjabi: "They first physically abused me and left and then again came back with more people and also got a pair of scissors along with them. They tried to remove my turban and cut my hair."

"My friends tried to save me," he said, adding, "The education agent back in India never gave me any information of how hard life will be here."