More North East Political Bureaucratic should be Open on Racism

North East Support Centre & Helpline, New Delhi
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More North East Political Bureaucratic should be Open on Racism
NE Helpline Salutes Mizoram CM for Bold on Racism


New Delhi, June 27, 2009

North East Support Centre & Helpline salutes Chief Minister of Mizoram Pu Lalthanhawla for his bold statement on racial discrimination meted out to himself and north east Indian communities. More political bureaucratic and civil societies must come openly on the reality of racism discrimination meted out to North East people.


The coming out openly on racial discrimination face by North East communities in different parts of India is long over due. North East Support Centre & Helpline is extremely glad that Chief Minister of Mizoram has openly expressed the issue in his press conference in Singapore. Pu Lalthanhawla would have conducted his press conference else where in India, the wide coverage and the issue would have been suppressed or ignored.

North East Support Centre & Helpline has appealed to North Eastern political elected members of Parliament many a time to take up the issues of racial discrimination faced by their communities in Delhi and NCR with Delhi and Central Government but most kept blind eyes.

The racial discrimination faced by the North East Indian communities in all over the country has their different forms. Definitely, Delhi and National Capital Region go beyond just lewd and bulgur racial remarks. Young girls are easily targeted in Delhi and NCR who have been physically and sexually assaulted while young boys are physically attacked and many are suspended from jobs without any prior notice or reasons. Many non-payment of salary by their employers are also reported.

The mindset of people is the root cause of the racial discrimination. The racist public of Delhi and NCR always counted North Easterners are strangers in their own country, cheap people and do whatever one like, none will bother.

What surprises the more is the racial discrimination from police duty officers when the victims and their colleagues discriminated went to register First Information Reports. In most of the cases, police refused to take the complaint and had to wait the media pressure.

Discrimination does not end their. After the complaints are registered, there comes the delay and manipulation by the public prosecutor of the cases taken up in the concerned courts in spit some of the cases supposed to be very speedy as booked under SC/ST Prevention of Atrocity Act 1995.

In reality, Indians can not survive racial discrimination in outside world, but back at home, the racism is very alive and rather it is more connected with caste apartheid of Indian society which existed for 3000 years. The United Nations’ Campaign against Racism at Durban in 2002, the casteism was termed worse than racism.

Thankfully, the issues of racism discrimination faced by the people of north east India in Delhi and NCR is taken well by the Indian media, without their help, the efforts of North East Support Centre & Helpline would have gone in vain.

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 communities of different states.


Release by

Mr. Madhu Chandra
Spokes Person
9868184939

Source:
North East Support Centre & Helpline, New Delhi
info@nehelpline.net, www.nehelpline.net