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| Pune's North East community says do |
| Pune's North East community says don't target us
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| INDIA
, 14-August-2012
2:1:16 AM |
| Over the past four days, at least 10 students and professionals in Pune have been attacked; they all belong to the north eastern part of the country.
The police have arrested nine people for these attacks that have happened in Pune Camp, Hadapsar and Kondwa areas, but the students feel that is not enough. These professionals and students have now formed an umbrella association - the North East Students Forum, and have met top police officials in the city requesting them to provide security to the community.
Many of them feel they are being targeted as a fallout of the violence in Assam that left at least 70 people dead and 4 lakh homeless. "We don't really know why this is happening. The attacks seem to be because of misunderstanding as all north east students bear the same physical features," says Rock Lungleng the convenor of the newly formed group. He also added that though initially they were terrified after the spate of attacks, they feel just a little more secure after meeting police officials.
Police sources say the attackers were possibly instigated after watching a doctored MMS clip which is being circulated in the city. One attacker surrendered before the police and reportedly told them he go furious after watching the MMS clip and he regretted his action.
The police also suspect it is this same clip that triggered the violence in Mumbai last Saturday.
The Pune police are now on the lookout for the source of the alleged doctored clip.
Nearly 10,000 students and professionals from north eastern states live in Pune
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