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Racial
Discrimination Continues to North East Communities at
Delhi
New Delhi, April 17, 2009: A six year old girl
from Manipur belonging to a Naga tribe was raped and
murdered at Mahipalpur, New Delhi. Racial discrimination
to North East communities living in Delhi and NCR
continues.
Fact Finding team led by Advocate Lansinglui Rongmei,
President of North East Support Centre & Helpline rushed
to the spot where the incident happened and confirmed
the raped and murdered of the victim.
Source reaching to North East Support Centre & Helpline
told that six year old girl went to dry clothes on the
roof of the house, the parents are staying in the rented
house, at 1:00 noon. When the girl did not return back
home, the mother went up to the roof in search and did
not find her. After 45 minutes her body was found in a
water tank on roof of another building.
The body was rushed to Spinal Injury Centre, Vasant Kunj
and latter confirmed raped and murdered. Her mother is a
nurse professionally and her father a business man.
Sources from Vasant Kunj Police station confirms that a
suspect man living in the same building where the girl
was found has been arrested and a Nepali boy is
absconding.
North East Support Centre & Helpline calls upon the
Delhi Government and NCR to take up the appropriate
measurement to stop the discrimination meted out to
North East people. People from North East India living
in Delhi and NCR are facing severe racial
discrimination. North East communities in Delhi and NCR
have been targeted by others for last four years. Their
young girls have been abused and assaulted sexually and
physically.
The mind set of people toward North Easterners living in
Delhi and NCR is essentially at fault. Unable to
appreciate the North-Eastern cultures, other Indians
look down on them and often consider their women as
sexually immoral who are asking to be molested. To make
matters worse, locals consider them as a helpless
community that will take in any amount of ill-treatment.
NE Support Centre & Helpline on behalf of the community
appeals for immediate action to be taken for justice to
innocent minor girl raped and murdered gruesome manner
and prevent further discrimination.
North East Support Centre & Helpline (www.nehelpline.net)
is combined initiative of various human rights
activists, social workers, students, journalists and
lawyers seeking to prevent harassment and abuses meted
out to women, North East People and tribal issues. "We
are asking people to vote for those who promise to
provide employment, food and fight against terror," he
said.
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