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Attacks are ‘racial’: African envoys
Denouncing attacks on African nationals as ‘xenophobic and racial’ in nature, heads of African missions in India have hit out at the government, saying it took no ‘known, sufficient and visible’ deterrent action.
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In a strongly-worded press release, the envoys, who recently held a ‘special’ meeting on the incidents, agreed to call for an independent investigation by the Human Rights Council as well as other human rights bodies, and also to comprehensively report the matter to the Commission of the African Union.
They said they expected a strong condemnation of the attacks at the highest political level, both nationally and locally, indicating their disappointment over lack of response from the prime minister and Uttar Pradesh chief minister, it said.
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