Dimapur, June 3 (MExN): The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), Nagaland, in its meeting, has condemned the racist hate attacks on Indian students in Australia. The party has requested the Australian High Commission to convey its resentment over the “most barbaric kind that is happening on its peaceful shores” and urged them to initiate a strong and exemplary action to prevent such unfortunate events in the future and secure the lives of the young and innocent students of the international community.
The BJYM, in a press release issued by its vice president, Jaangsillung Gonmei, has also noted with resentment “the seemingly callous, casual and general attitude of the Australian Prime Minister on such an urgent criminal matter”, when he called upon his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh, to congratulate him on his second term and on being queried by the latter on the matter.
The BJYM has termed racism a disease of the modern society brought on by selfishness, narrow-mindedness and lack of work ethics, and called it a shame that this should be happening in an advanced country “which is otherwise a peaceful nation”. Pointing out that while Australia and the western world democracies have been looked up to as role models for various developing societies and nations because of their sacrifice of millions of lives in the two World Wars to protect peoples' democracy from the narrow sectarianisms of Nazism and fascism, the BJYM stated: “it is a great shame for racism to be taking place in their soils. The Second World War cemetery at Kohima, Nagaland, bears witness to the extreme and exemplary sacrifice that the western democracies had made to protect democracy even in this most remote comer of the world. And therefore, the BJYM, Nagaland, is shocked and ashamed of the brutal and barbaric treatment meted out to Indian students and calls for an urgent and highly prioritized solution to the matter at the earliest.”
Meanwhile, the BJYM has expressed that youths of today’s modem world should learn the necessity of adjusting to the “growing conjestment” in every aspect of social life because of the growing urbanization, and adopt only peaceful democratic means to solve various problems. “This is the only way to grow socially harmoniously, fulfilling every individual’s aspects of life and his/her expectations,” the BJYM added.
