Manipuri Student Mercilessly Beaten For Not Knowing Kannada

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T Michael Lamjathang Haokip was attacked a little after midnight in a part of the city mostly inhabited by migrants, particularly students from the northeast states and Africa. The 26-year-old received wounds to his head and back but doctors said he was out of danger.

People from India’s seven northeast states are frequently singled out for abuse in other parts of the country because they look different and often dress different, say social scientists. More than 30,000 people from the Northeast fled Bengaluru in August 2012 after a handful of such attacks sparked rumours of a larger conspiracy.

 

“They kept asking me to speak in Kannada. They said, ‘If you outsiders know how to eat food that is produced in Karnataka, you must also know to speak Kannada. This is India not China.’ I tried to reason with them but they were hysterical,” a profusely bleeding Michael told Hindustan Times at the Kothanur police station.

Two of Michael’s friends – Ngamkholen Haokip, 28, and Rocky Kipgen, 25 – who were with him when he was assaulted on Wednesday escaped with minor wounds. 

Michael Lamjathang Haokip at Kothanur police station (Sudipto Mondal/HT Photo)
 

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