Not all attacks on Africans racist: Sushma tells Parliament
April 05, 2017  13:01
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External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj speaks in Parliament on the attacks on Africans in India. Denouncing the statement made by African envoys that India was xenophobic and racist, Swaraj said not all attacks are racial. "The Kenyan woman had lied. You cannot call all attacks racist," she said.

A Kenyan woman who claimed locals in Greater Noida assaulted her was depressed because of personal issues and fabricated the attack, an African student group has said, apologising for what they called a cooked-up story.

Swaraj said India's response (to stem the attacks) cannot be called inadequate. "The probe is fast and fair," she told the house. 

On Monday after African envoys rebuked India, describing the Greater Noida mob violence against Nigerians as "xenophobic and racial", and India tersely rejected the statement as unfortunate and unwarranted.

The African nations, who also called for a probe by the UN Human Rights Council, were scathing in their indictment of the government over incidents of race violence and said India had taken "no known, sufficient and visible deterring measures" to prevent violence against Africans.


Image: The Kenyan student who lied that she has been attacked.
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