Thursday 08 January 2009

Mumbai new immigrants victims of xenophobia

Thursday 06 November 2008

Every day, 500 new immigrants from other Indian states enter Mumbai, the Indian economic capital, looking for work. They have recently fallen prey to a xenophobic party, the MNS, and been threatened and assaulted.

Thursday 06 November 2008

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Every day, 500 new immigrants enter India's economic capital, Mumbai. They come looking for a better life.  A man was beaten up because he's from Uttar Pradesh, a state in North India, an MNS victim. Last week, party activists had already attacked this slum where many immigrants have settled. Five people were killed. Today their families preferred to run away for fear of fresh attacks.

 

Other residents from the North live in fear. Today the MNS has about a hundred accusations registered against it… including two for murder. An aggressive campaign for one of Bombay's foremost political powers.

 

 


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