Agitated India may be protesting against racial attacks in Australia, but Delhi doesn't seem to be any better for foreigners.
Agitated India may be protesting against racial attacks in Australia, but Delhi doesn't seem to be any better for foreigners.
As a large crowd of shoppers looked on, a group of youngsters in the national capital pounced upon an African student last week and brutally attacked him, saying they were taking revenge for the Australian attacks.
The city police are yet to make any breakthrough in investigating the incident.
The nightmare of being harassed and beaten up in a foreign country came true for 25-year-old Yanik Nzengu, a management student from Kinshasa city in the Congo, onWednesday. He was brutally beaten up in daylight at a posh market in Saket, in the heart of posh South Delhi.
Nzengu, who is simultaneously doing a management course from Nagaland University and a computer degree course from NIIT Limited, was abused and thrashed by a group of seven youngsters.
His attackers told Nzengu that since Indian students were being beaten up in Australia, no foreign student should be allowed to stay in India. A large crowd looked on as the attackers split open Nzengu's head.
Nzengu had gone to the busy marketplace to meet a friend at about 2:30pm on Wednesday when a group of unidentified youngsters thrashed him up and fled the spot. Bleeding profusely with his head injury, Nzengu went to a local hospital where doctors had to put stitches at the back of his head to staunch the bleeding.
"I was coming back from the computer institute when a group of boys started passing remarks in Hindi which I could not understand," he said. "When I asked them what they wanted, they started beating me.
"One of the boys told me I had no right to stay in India because Indians were not safe in Australia. They also told me that I should go back to my country."
Nzengu has been in India since October 2008. The young man is the eldest son in his family and had come to India because of serious economic problems back home. His father is a professor at the university in the capital city of Kinshasa.
"We have lodged a formal complaint," he said, "but since I don't know any of the gang members, I am not sure if they will be arrested," he said.
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