Indian student assaulted for second time in Melbourne

Agencies Tags : Indian student attacked, Australia, racism Posted: Monday , Jun 08, 2009 at 1104 hrs Melbourne:

He is the 11th Indian to be assaulted within a month in Australia.

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A 23-year-old Indian student was beaten up for the second time in a fortnight by a group of youths in Melbourne, the 11th person from the community to be assaulted within a space of a month in Australia.

Kamal Jit was found unconscious and bleeding by another Indian student in western suburb of the city on Sunday.

It was the second attack in two weeks on Jit, who was previously pelted with eggs by several masked men after getting off a late night train at St Albans station in western suburb.

"It is very bad because we pay a lot of money and we are living far away from our country and from our families and we are without protection," Jit was quoted as saying in 'The Age' newspaper on Monday.

As he walked home at about 1:40 am on Sunday, Jit said, he noticed three men acting suspiciously in a car and he tried to avoid them.

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He then saw two men come out of it near a pizza shop, while another waited in a car.

"The two guys pushed me to the ground and I was hit on the head, I think with a steel rod," Jit said.

Jit, who required seven stitches after the blow to his head, said he did not want to live in the suburb any longer.

Jit's friends said the attack was the sixth or seventh over the past week on the Indian students, and called for extra police at the suburb of St Albans station at night.

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Gun Massacres in Australia since 1987By: John Edmonds | 17-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward A lot of mental illness in Australia can be traced back to the Convict Past. White Convicts were brutalised

blame gameBy: Arun Kumar | 15-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward Kudos to Aussies for beating up Indians. Let the Indians understand the pain of discrimination, pain of other students and citizens of India getting beaten up by fellow Indians in the name of caste, religion,language,state etc

provention is better then cureBy: Rajat Sharma(sethi) | 12-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward attention indians as all of we know that this stage we can make ours life or we can distroy ours life i red all of the comments but we dont have to worry about all of that, if aussi get work with their mind then we also have to use our mind all of us have to get up together we have to recogenise all the plans 1.we must get sit in first three boxes in train that can be helpfull because in tha night we can be 3 or 4 maximum in the first three boxes2.we all have to take one packet of chilly powder if something bad happend with you throw the chiily powder on their eys and run away that can be possasive and correctable and unless we can get modified proof that can not be incorrect this we we can protect our self and the police will not get inrole in this situation3.in the whole day we have to call to our home living mate if his job is going at nights,because he should get inform you.WARNING1.dont carry any knife2.if you feel bad report it to your friends or police3.dont stair

Attacks on indian continuedBy: RG | 10-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward continued... But this is no reason to block roads and protest and disrupt normal lif. This has brought more attention to the indian community even in suburbs where no one noticed us. It has made us noticible targets. And then we have the Indian media as usual showing the coverage a million times in a day on the television and driving every one mad. The attacks are sad but there could be better ways.

Attacks in AusytraliaBy: RG | 10-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward I am an Indian residing in Melbourne. Personal view about indian students is not very good (not all students). There are a lot of Gujrati and Punjabi students lately in Melbourne. ONe should notice their behaviour when they are in a group in public transport. Talking loudly, abusing, staring at women, passing crude comments. Not done all these kind of behaviours. YOu are in a foreign country and you should respect how they function and not do what you do back at home. This kind of behaviour attracts attention. You should look at Indians visiting Gurudwara on Sundays at Blackburn suburb. Good that they visit but look at them crossing the roads. In 100s but they wont use the pedestrain crossings. They will cross the roads just any where they feel like and stop the traffic. This will attract attention. There are many other issues. I agree the attacks are not right but this is not only happening to Indians but to other community also.

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