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Australian racism 1. 2,000 Indians protest racist anti-Indian violence in Melbourne, Australia

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 2 June 2009

Demos-Actions Discriminations-Minorit. Australia

Racist White Australia has a long history of egregious violent racism towards Indigenous Australians (as in the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide in which 9.000 Indigenous Australians are passively murdered by White Australia each year), Africans (against white Afrikaaners in the Boer War and black Africans in the Sudan War), Semites (Jews, Arabs and Arab-culture Muslims), Asians (mainly Indochinese, Koreans, Indians, Afghans, Iraqis and Arab-culture Muslims through discrimination and participation in all post-1950 US Asian wars that have been associated so far with 25 million Indigenous Asian deaths) and indeed towards all non-Europeans (through the 1901-1974 White Australian Policy that has now become the New White Australian Policy that divides prospective student or tourist visitors into 2 broad categories that are, in short, for “Whites or rich Honorary Whites” and “non-Whites and selected poor Eastern European Whites) (see "Australia’s Secret Genocide History. La Trobe, "Bundoora Eucalyptus" & Black Crimes of White Australia”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/221... ) .

However Australia’s past and continuing genocidal crimes play into insignificance in comparison with the worsening, Australia-complicit Climate Genocide which is set to kill 10 billion non-Europeans this century (including 3 million Muslims and 2 billion Indians) due to unaddressed man-made climate change. Greedy, racist White Australia is a major culprit as shown by the following “annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution” in tonnes per person per year (2005): Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter, the OECD’s worst per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) polluter and a remorseless world leader in annual per capita GHG pollution. “Annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution” in units of “tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year” (2005-2008 data) is 2.2 (India), 6.7 (the World), 11 (Europe), 27 (the US) and 30 (Australia; or 54 if Australia’s huge Exported CO2 pollution is included). Just as Australia has made contributions to the Apartheid Israeli Palestinian Genocide tax deductible, so the latest Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) of the extreme right wing, pro-coal, pro-war Rudd Labor Government provides massive, “business as usual” subsidies for climate genocidal GHG polluters (see “Genocide-denying, holocaust-denying Australia commits to Climate Genocide”: http://www.green-blog.org/2009/05/1... ; “Climate Disruption, Climate Emergency, Climate Genocide & Penultimate Bengali Holocaust through Sea Level Rise”: http://sites.google.com/site/yarrav... ) .

Racist White Australia gets away with it because of entrenched, comprehensive Anglo Mainstream media lying - but occasionally public protest by Indigenous Australians or decent, anti-racist non-Indigenous Australians exposes the evil ugliness of violent, racist, genocidal Apartheid Australia.

Such exposure has happened this week in the heart of Melbourne - on Sunday 31 May 2009 about 2,000 Indians protested in the heart of the Melbourne Central Business District (CBD) against brutal, racist violence against Indian students (for a detailed report see the top newspaper in Melbourne “The Age”: http://www.theage.com.au/national/i... ).

The methods used against Indian students have included knife stabbing, stabbing the head with a screw driver and burning alive with a petrol bomb. The Victorian police have unfortunately “softened” the acute seriousness of these crimes by saying that they were “opportunistic crimes”, this implying that neatly-dressed Indians coming home from a university library in the evening are “opportunistic” victims of these evil criminals. Further, the violence is not confined to Indian students - the Indian former head of the Australian Medical Association was bashed unconscious by thugs in Melbourne last year and repeated murderous attacks on (substantially Indian) Melbourne taxi drivers led to a huge demonstration and “grid-lock” by taxi drivers in exactly the same spot as the Indian students’ protest (the heart of Melbourne – the intersection of Swanston Street and Flinders Street in front of the iconic central Flinders Street Railway Station). The taxi drivers were rewarded with “late night fare pre-payment” and “driver protection screens” (see "2,000 Indians Protest Australian Anti-Indian Violence”: http://www.countercurrents.org/poly... ).

In an ironic twist, the Sunday 31 May demonstration by up to 2,000 Indians against the racist bashing of Indian students in Melbourne, Australia, was finally broken up at 5 am on Monday morning - by Australian police violence (see: http://www.theage.com.au/national/h... ).

Indians are a peaceful lot - indeed a quick review of Indian history informs us that "Indians" (using the term to describe the inhabitants of present-day India, Bangladesh and Pakistan) have not invaded any country outside the sub-continent for thousands of years - except as conscripts of British imperialism (for a detailed summary of history since the neolithic period for India and contiguous countries see Chapter 6, "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950": http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com... ).

In contrast, White Australian in its short 221 year history has a continuous record of egregious, genocidal violence and has been involved in a total of about 20 major genocides as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention - with continuing involvement in ongoing Aboriginal Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide and Climate Genocide (see "Australia’s Secret Genocide History. La Trobe, "Bundoora Eucalyptus" & Black Crimes of White Australia”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/221... ) and continuing financial legislative and diplomatic support for Apartheid Israel’s ongoing Palestinian Genocide - while Australians giving money to support medical services in the Gaza Concentration Camp face life imprisonment, Australian donations to support Apartheid Israel’s ongoing Palestinian Genocide are tax deductible (see "Anti-Arab anti-Semitism. US & Australia Make Muslim Charity a Major Crime”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/308... ).

Indeed racist Zionist -promoted terror hysteria, anti-Arab anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and xenophobic racism in White Australia has clearly contributed to this wave of attacks on Indian students in Australia. The ignorant, violent, racist perpetrators don’t know the difference between a Hindu and a Muslim or an handsome young Indian overseas university student and a local Lebanese Australian - all these racist thugs see is The Other to bash, stab or burn alive (methods recently used by racist Australians thugs in violence against Indian students in Australia) (see "2,000 Indians Protest Australian Anti-Indian Violence”: http://www.countercurrents.org/poly... ).

All decent folk around the world should act against the genocidal anti-Asian policies and practices of racist Apartheid Australia by (a) informing others and (b) taking action by eschewing avoidable business dealings with all racist persons, institutions, corporations and countries (notably genocidal Apartheid Israel and genocidal and terracidal Apartheid Australia). Thus demonstrator Suresh Chokkakula: said: " [agencies promoting international study] painted a picture that Australia is very safe. But it is not safe; the picture is very different. We do not feel safe, we do not feel welcome, in this city. My advice to every Indian student now who wants to come to Australia is, ’Please don’t come’" (see "Indian protest over racist attacks”:
http://www.theage.com.au/national/i... ).