Maybe some of our Australian readers can enlighten us further about why the crime in the Victoria region of Australia involves crimes with racial motivations. Here is a story from the Sydney Morning Herald that tells of the murder of an Indian immigrant, but completely dances around the subject of who is committing the crimes against Indians who, according to this report, are just working hard and going to school.
Apparently the targeting of Indian immigrants has further strained relations between Australia and India.
The brutal killing in Melbourne of Nitin Garg, a young Indian man with permanent residence in Australia, has put added stress on what is a difficult relationship between political leaders in New Delhi and Canberra.
Who are the vocal minorities? What other ethnic groups? That is what I want to know!
Obviously, the Federal Government is not responsible for street crime in Victoria. But the state’s premier, John Brumby, heads a Labor Government that gives the impression of being unduly sensitive to upsetting some vocal minorities.
The NSW police force has an organised crime directorate that includes both an Asian Crime Squad and a Middle East Organised Crime Squad. The NSW Government makes no apologies for targeting suspected criminals in response to perceived need. Victoria Police has no equivalent units. There have been suggestions that young Indians in Melbourne are being targeted by other ethnic groups. The Victorian Government has been silent on this matter.
The immediate response of Victoria Police to any suggestion that attacks on Indians are racially motivated is to throw the switch to denial, or at least to avoidance.