Guwahati: With stars in their eyes, hordes of students from India's northeast region head towards various parts of the country during admission season. However, previous episodes of unsavoury treatment meted out to northeastern people is what haunts most of them.
"We want an end to abuse and beating of northeastern boys and girls, mostly in India's capital city. All the cases are of racial nature," Madhu Chandra, spokesperson of North East Support Centre and Helpline, New Delhi, told IANS on phone.
The centre was formed on Sep 22, 2007 to address the issue of safety and security of northeastern people in Delhi, as they are often target of "racial attack", according to Chandra.
1)Victims are chased and verbally abused by a bunch of youngsters in a Delhi lane and abused me because of his short stature and mongoloid features.
2)According to the figures available with the centre, around 100 cases of physical and verbal abuse, molestation, rape and beating of boys and girls of the region were reported in Delhi in 2006 and 2007.
3)In 2008, only three episodes of attacks on people of northeast India in Delhi. But they were of heinous nature, pertaining to sexual assaults and beating of women.
4) In 2009 till May, the centre had received 12 complaints of harassment, rape, physical and verbal abuse of northeastern people in Delhi.
5)Students from northeast India who go to study in various parts of India have to undergo racial prejudice. A student during her stay in the city had her fellow students in the colleges calls her a *'chinky', because of her mongoloid features and was depressed.
*chinky' (referring to small eyes) is racial in nature. (all the northeastern are known as chinky in Delhi and other parts of India.)
6) Victim was severely abused in Delhi a few years back when he was a student.
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