Thursday, March 30, 2017

Attacks on Nigerians in Greater Noida are NOT RACIST ATTACKS

And the biased narrative of media begins. In this case, I have the benefit of residing within 3 km of the place where the incidents took place.

The actual story is as follows...

So by now, the whole world knows that a boy had died in greater Noida and there were riots in which African students were attacked indiscriminately. News reports inform us that Africans were accused of cannibalism and there were racist riots. So the story begins from almost two years ago when an auto driver went missing and later on he was found in fridge of Nigerian students in Greater Noida, body parts cut and stored. After that local people were whispering that Nigerians a cannibals. What was the issue with that auto driver nobody knows as media did not cover it and it was treated as just another petty crime. Even today nobody knows what happened to that case in which those students were arrested, if they were punished or not. Most probably this case got lost in police files in India as so many cases get lost. That driver perhaps did not have local backers and hence nobody bothered about him but locally people knew about it and discussed it and then forgot as we know public memory is short. 6000 African students of various nationalities lived undisturbed all this while. People rented them their own houses. No discrimination was happening as such. African students could be seen everywhere in Greater Noida. Now when this fresh case happened when this boy died. Those memories came back. Rumour mills had usual effect as rumour mills are known to have throughout the history across the world. This buy was known to Nigerians. He was seen with them. One statement which none of the "RESPONSIBLE" media outlet carried was of the brother of dead buy. Before he died of cardiac arrest finally he had told his brother that Nigerians had injected him with something and after that he did not remember anything. "Responsible" media thought it appropriate to report just the last part that "he did not remember anything". Now the boy in question was not some auto driver far away from his home but belonged to powerful local "Gurjer" or "Gujjar" people, who are dominant land owning community in this area. They persued the matter and then tempers ran high and they gathered in thousands at Pari Chowk (Main junction in Greater Noida). they started hunting for Africans as they can not differentiate between Kenyan or Nigerian or south African. Things were brought under control, PAC (Provincial Armed Constabulary, a kind of reserve force in UP Police) was called in quickly.

So what we see is crime of passion not racism.
Yes it is fine if media does not add to the rumours of cannibalism but when it turns the narrative towards racism then it is crime on the part of those sections of media.
In fact some of them already started instigating African governments against Indian Interests.
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/03/29/why-indians-need-an-urgent-lesson-in-identifying-its-racism-at-h_a_22016438/

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