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Sharmila solidarity with Africans
- Rights crusader meets group campaigning against racial discrimination
The Telegraph | Pheroze L. Vincent | New Delhi, May 15
Human rights activist Irom Sharmila today met members of the Association of African Students in India, who are spearheading the struggle against racial attacks on Africans living in India.
In March and April, several Africans were attacked over false rumours of cannibalism in Greater Noida near here. Last year, one Congolese man was killed and several other Africans were injured in separate incidents of mob violence in south Delhi.
Speaking to reporters at the Press Club of India here today, Sharmila said, "We are all victims in one way or another... We all experience such discrimination."
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