Assault on Indians may be racist: Australian leader

MELBOURNE - The string of attacks on Indians in Australia could be racially motivated, an Aboriginal leader said, adding “there is an indirect racism, if not direct racism”.

There have been a spate of attacks on Indians in Australia. Two of the vicious attacks proved fatal. While Ranjodh Singh’s body was found Dec 29, another Indian, Nitin Garg, was fatally stabbed in Melbourne Jan 2.

Tom Calma, the outgoing Aboriginal social justice commissioner, believes some of the attacks were racially motivated.

“I think some of them may be,” Calma told ABC Radio.

“There is an indirect racism, if not direct racism, and it affects those people who are the indigenous people or the ethnic minorities,” AAP quoted him as saying Friday.