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India Northeast Ethnic Minorities Suffering Severe Racial Discriminations Because of Their Chinese Looking

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China Central News Agency

2009-10-31

Overseas Indians have usually been discriminated by others. In India there are also widespread caste discrimination, religious discrimination and racial discrimination. The most common discrimination is against the minorities, especially the northeast ethnic minorities who are like Chinese.

The northeast India ethnic minorities' color, figure and facial features are related to East Asia and Southeast Asia in terms of their ethnic similarity. Their local custom dressing and traditional dancing are more like Taiwan "Gao Shan" ethnic minority.  According to experts, India's northeast people's ancestors are directly related to ancient China's "Bai Yue" ethnic groups, Dai in China's Yunnan province and Shan in Myanmar.

Indian capital of Delhi is the leading city in India, but it is the most racial discrimination city. According to the CNA interview with spokesman Madhu Chandra of the Delhi volunteer organization "The Help Center of Northeast India", the discrimination and attacks against northeast minorities happened frequently, especially the sexual assault towards northeast women, and it cannot be ignored.

He said that almost every indigenous person of northeast has the same bad experience. For example, he said, not long ago, there is a northeast Naga tribe woman with her husband and children, to visit relatives living in Delhi. During the visiting, a group of local men verbally abused them, and her husband reproached them. After the visit, they found their car had been vandalized.

Last week, in the south campus of University of Delhi, a 19-year-old female student from the northeast state of Manipur, was raped and killed by a 34-year-old neighbor man who broke in her room. A few days later, there was another indecent, a 21-year-old female student from the northeast state of Arunachal Pradesh, was violently molested by a group of male students in Delhi, she almost committed suicide.

Currently in Delhi region, there are 90 to 100 thousand northeastern ethnic residences. Except part of them came here to work as cookers or waiters in the restaurants because of the poverty, most of them are the university students studying in the capital. Compared with common Indians, those students are from high class families in terms of family wealth and status, but they are still being discriminated because of their appearance.

According to the Student Union of Northeast in University of Delhi, the northeast students have their own traditional dress, but even wearing the Indian women traditional dress, sari, it is still very easy to recognize their northeast nationalities because of their fair skin color that is quite different from the Indian with black coarse skin. The urban taxi grooms always ask them for the fares comparable with foreigners.

A college girl, named Marngam of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, who came from northeast Arunachal state, said, she was subjected to sexual harassment, such as obscene verbal abuse from time to time when walking on the streets in Delhi, they called her "Chinese Whore (Chinki)", "Thai Bar (Thapa )" and other vulgar calls, or even being physically touched, and it has almost become part of daily life, she could only try to be patient to accept these.

Mana Mu said that many female students from the northeast have the same experience. She will not feel safe as long as she left the room or school, whether it is in residential areas, stores or shopping mails. She said that when female students visit friends, in order to avoid dangers they will be asked by their friends to stay to the next morning if they are unable to reach home before dark.

Two 18-year-old female students, Yeshley and Karma of University of Delhi are all from the northern state of Sikkim, also said that, whether it is to go to school, come back to home, visit friends or even just a few minutes walking for shopping, they are always together, so as to avoid being isolated and helpless when encountered assault. They never go out during night.

Even the boys in Delhi are not safe. According to the Jawaharlal Nehru University boy, Mongve, who from Assam state, said he had been blocked by a group of men on the road and they tried to hit him. Fortunately, he escaped in time to avoid attack. He said he heard obscene comments towards the girls quite often when went out with female students.

Northeast writer Ningreichon said that Australia, Germany and other countries also have racial discrimination, but at least the government officials and police officers will pay attentions to these issues. In India, racial discrimination is considered to be normal, government officials already get used to it. When the Police were dealing with the complaints, they always accused the victims for their different dress or accent that caused the insults for the victims.

A 21-year-old female student, Chanchan, who from northeast Manipur state, said the school professors always humiliated her, and asked her to quit school and go home to learn Hindi before she can come back to school. They blamed her as a "foreigner" who should not be treated equally in the Hindi speaking areas, so she has been very depressed during her study in school.

Northeast Indians are generally subject to the discrimination that others don't have in the Delhi. The Northeast National Associations recently launched a protest in Delhi city hall with 300 people. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, a 70-year-old woman, went out and interviewed, but she just casually said that these incidents of racial discrimination cases are just individual behaviors due to mental disorders or behavioral deviation of some people.

The spokesman Madhu Chandra of the Delhi volunteer organization "The Help Center of Northeast India", said the severity of the racial discrimination against northeast ethnic minorities in such long time, cannot be diluted by so-called deviant behaviors of some individuals. He said this is the violation of human rights and culture of the ethnic minorities.

He also condemned, although the Indian Constitution and Statutes said to protect the rights of ethnic minorities, but because the northeast Indian societies are generally considered to be the silent minority ethnic groups, the Indians themselves who were usually discriminated by foreigners, had found the northeast ethnic minorities as their easy target for retaliation.

Earlier this year, Indian students in Australia, New Zealand and UK were frequently attacked by the local people, and the news were constantly passed back to India, which triggered strong criticism of the foreign racism by Indian officials and public media. But "India Times" columnist Jug Suraiya has written that the Indians themselves have a worse racism and racial discrimination.

Jug Suraiya said, this may be subject to the deep influence of the British 250 years of colonial ruling and the traditional caste system in the Indian society. All these reasons had made the racism more severe. Whatever different social classes, ethnic groups or religion and culture tribes, are often to be of discriminatory, and this resulted in full of conflicts within Indian society.









In northeast India, there are a total of seven states - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. They are usually called seven sisters. Around them are Bhutan, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh. The residents there are tribal peoples with more than 20 million, and they belong to Mongolian. They use more than 50 languages with more than 100 dialects. But young people all speak English. Except Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Tripura, the majority of the population is Christian.

India's territory is a bit like chicken. The chicken head is India's northeast area. There are India's seven federal states there, known as the northeast seven sisters. The seven sister states have the same East Asian ethnic origin as Chinese. They do not consider themselves as Indians. From the British colonial period, they have started a relentless movement for the liberation. Indians in general, not only do not agree with them as Indians, but also recognize them as Chinese people because of their East Asian appearance and characteristics. Indians call northeast people "Chinky Eyes" in the racism and racial discrimination manner.

The connection area between the Indian northeastern area ("chicken head") and the India mainland ("chicken body") is a narrow corridor with only 20 km wide and 100 km long. This corridor has the three states that have the most violent guerrilla war for liberation. If the guerrilla war there can be as successful as in Afghanistan, then India can not continue to stay in southern Tibet. Southern Tibet will return to China easily. China should support India's northeast guerrilla war through Myanmar, and need to help the northeast seven states to separate from India to establish a united friendly buffer state with China, then China's trouble with India will be basically solved. China should behead India's "chicken head" that has northeast seven states.

Why India can host and support the Dalai Lama's Tibet independence, while China cannot help the guerrilla war in northeast India?

Now it is the time to do it. China should do it and must do it for the future of China.

長相酷似華人　印度東北民族飽受種族歧視

India Northeast Ethnic Minorities Suffering Severe Racial Discriminations Because of Their Chinese Looking

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China Central News Agency

2009-10-31

Overseas Indians have usually been discriminated by others. In India there are also widespread caste discrimination, religious discrimination and racial discrimination. The most common discrimination is against the minorities, especially the northeast ethnic minorities who are like Chinese.

The northeast India ethnic minorities' color, figure and facial features are related to East Asia and Southeast Asia in terms of their ethnic similarity. Their local custom dressing and traditional dancing are more like Taiwan "Gao Shan" ethnic minority.  According to experts, India's northeast people's ancestors are directly related to ancient China's "Bai Yue" ethnic groups, Dai in China's Yunnan province and Shan in Myanmar.

Indian capital of Delhi is the leading city in India, but it is the most racial discrimination city. According to the CNA interview with spokesman Madhu Chandra of the Delhi volunteer organization "The Help Center of Northeast India", the discrimination and attacks against northeast minorities happened frequently, especially the sexual assault towards northeast women, and it cannot be ignored.

He said that almost every indigenous person of northeast has the same bad experience. For example, he said, not long ago, there is a northeast Naga tribe woman with her husband and children, to visit relatives living in Delhi. During the visiting, a group of local men verbally abused them, and her husband reproached them. After the visit, they found their car had been vandalized.

Last week, in the south campus of University of Delhi, a 19-year-old female student from the northeast state of Manipur, was raped and killed by a 34-year-old neighbor man who broke in her room. A few days later, there was another indecent, a 21-year-old female student from the northeast state of Arunachal Pradesh, was violently molested by a group of male students in Delhi, she almost committed suicide.

Currently in Delhi region, there are 90 to 100 thousand northeastern ethnic residences. Except part of them came here to work as cookers or waiters in the restaurants because of the poverty, most of them are the university students studying in the capital. Compared with common Indians, those students are from high class families in terms of family wealth and status, but they are still being discriminated because of their appearance.

According to the Student Union of Northeast in University of Delhi, the northeast students have their own traditional dress, but even wearing the Indian women traditional dress, sari, it is still very easy to recognize their northeast nationalities because of their fair skin color that is quite different from the Indian with black coarse skin. The urban taxi grooms always ask them for the fares comparable with foreigners.

A college girl, named Marngam of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, who came from northeast Arunachal state, said, she was subjected to sexual harassment, such as obscene verbal abuse from time to time when walking on the streets in Delhi, they called her "Chinese Whore (Chinki)", "Thai Bar (Thapa )" and other vulgar calls, or even being physically touched, and it has almost become part of daily life, she could only try to be patient to accept these.

Mana Mu said that many female students from the northeast have the same experience. She will not feel safe as long as she left the room or school, whether it is in residential areas, stores or shopping mails. She said that when female students visit friends, in order to avoid dangers they will be asked by their friends to stay to the next morning if they are unable to reach home before dark.

Two 18-year-old female students, Yeshley and Karma of University of Delhi are all from the northern state of Sikkim, also said that, whether it is to go to school, come back to home, visit friends or even just a few minutes walking for shopping, they are always together, so as to avoid being isolated and helpless when encountered assault. They never go out during night.

Even the boys in Delhi are not safe. According to the Jawaharlal Nehru University boy, Mongve, who from Assam state, said he had been blocked by a group of men on the road and they tried to hit him. Fortunately, he escaped in time to avoid attack. He said he heard obscene comments towards the girls quite often when went out with female students.

Northeast writer Ningreichon said that Australia, Germany and other countries also have racial discrimination, but at least the government officials and police officers will pay attentions to these issues. In India, racial discrimination is considered to be normal, government officials already get used to it. When the Police were dealing with the complaints, they always accused the victims for their different dress or accent that caused the insults for the victims.

A 21-year-old female student, Chanchan, who from northeast Manipur state, said the school professors always humiliated her, and asked her to quit school and go home to learn Hindi before she can come back to school. They blamed her as a "foreigner" who should not be treated equally in the Hindi speaking areas, so she has been very depressed during her study in school.

Northeast Indians are generally subject to the discrimination that others don't have in the Delhi. The Northeast National Associations recently launched a protest in Delhi city hall with 300 people. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, a 70-year-old woman, went out and interviewed, but she just casually said that these incidents of racial discrimination cases are just individual behaviors due to mental disorders or behavioral deviation of some people.

The spokesman Madhu Chandra of the Delhi volunteer organization "The Help Center of Northeast India", said the severity of the racial discrimination against northeast ethnic minorities in such long time, cannot be diluted by so-called deviant behaviors of some individuals. He said this is the violation of human rights and culture of the ethnic minorities.

He also condemned, although the Indian Constitution and Statutes said to protect the rights of ethnic minorities, but because the northeast Indian societies are generally considered to be the silent minority ethnic groups, the Indians themselves who were usually discriminated by foreigners, had found the northeast ethnic minorities as their easy target for retaliation.

Earlier this year, Indian students in Australia, New Zealand and UK were frequently attacked by the local people, and the news were constantly passed back to India, which triggered strong criticism of the foreign racism by Indian officials and public media. But "India Times" columnist Jug Suraiya has written that the Indians themselves have a worse racism and racial discrimination.

Jug Suraiya said, this may be subject to the deep influence of the British 250 years of colonial ruling and the traditional caste system in the Indian society. All these reasons had made the racism more severe. Whatever different social classes, ethnic groups or religion and culture tribes, are often to be of discriminatory, and this resulted in full of conflicts within Indian society.









In northeast India, there are a total of seven states - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. They are usually called seven sisters. Around them are Bhutan, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh. The residents there are tribal peoples with more than 20 million, and they belong to Mongolian. They use more than 50 languages with more than 100 dialects. But young people all speak English. Except Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Tripura, the majority of the population is Christian.

India's territory is a bit like chicken. The chicken head is India's northeast area. There are India's seven federal states there, known as the northeast seven sisters. The seven sister states have the same East Asian ethnic origin as Chinese. They do not consider themselves as Indians. From the British colonial period, they have started a relentless movement for the liberation. Indians in general, not only do not agree with them as Indians, but also recognize them as Chinese people because of their East Asian appearance and characteristics. Indians call northeast people "Chinky Eyes" in the racism and racial discrimination manner.

The connection area between the Indian northeastern area ("chicken head") and the India mainland ("chicken body") is a narrow corridor with only 20 km wide and 100 km long. This corridor has the three states that have the most violent guerrilla war for liberation. If the guerrilla war there can be as successful as in Afghanistan, then India can not continue to stay in southern Tibet. Southern Tibet will return to China easily. China should support India's northeast guerrilla war through Myanmar, and need to help the northeast seven states to separate from India to establish a united friendly buffer state with China, then China's trouble with India will be basically solved. China should behead India's "chicken head" that has northeast seven states.

Why India can host and support the Dalai Lama's Tibet independence, while China cannot help the guerrilla war in northeast India?

Now it is the time to do it. China should do it and must do it for the future of China.

長相酷似華人　印度東北民族飽受種族歧視