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16-Jun-09 11:00 AM CST
Assaults on Indians 'not race-based'
As protests grow louder against allegedly race-motivated attacks against Indian students in Australia, police say the number of such robberies and assaults is falling.
Police commander Trevor Carter, whose division covers Melbourne's west, the national hotspot for attacks, said yesterday assaults on Indians had declined over the past three months.
However, the police chief's comments coincided with another attack, in which a 21-year-old Indian student was slashed with a box-cutter when confronted yesterday afternoon by five men who demanded money and cigarettes at Dandenong, inMelbourne
Police said there was nothing to indicate that the assault, which within hours was being widely reported on Indian news websites, was racially motivated. [More...]
Police commander Trevor Carter, whose division covers Melbourne's west, the national hotspot for attacks, said yesterday assaults on Indians had declined over the past three months.
However, the police chief's comments coincided with another attack, in which a 21-year-old Indian student was slashed with a box-cutter when confronted yesterday afternoon by five men who demanded money and cigarettes at Dandenong, in
Police said there was nothing to indicate that the assault, which within hours was being widely reported on Indian news websites, was racially motivated. [More...]
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