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Yup, the African students are saying the "female misbehavior" "excuse" is a lie:
"We do not live in India, we survive here. People in this national capital treat us as if we are not human beings,” says 20-year-old Guira, a NIIT student of computer science from West African country Burkina Faso, who along with his two friends, Mapaga (22) and Yohan (22), from Gabon was attacked by a lynch mob at Rajiv Chowk metro station on Sunday evening.
“Everyday, we have to tackle racism. People in metro and other public places take our photographs without our consent and laugh at us. If we object, they call us kalu (black) and hurl abuses,” he told Firstpost on Wednesday describing the racist and ugly face of Delhi.
Narrating the horrific incident that took place on Sunday, Gabon national Mapaga (22), one the victims who is pursuing BBA from Sharda University, said, “We were returning to Greater Noida where we live from our friend’s place in Vasant Vihar. We boarded a metro train at Chhatarpur station for Rajiv Chowk. I noticed one of the three persons standing in front of us clicking our pictures and making fun of us. I saw it in the window pane behind them. When I objected, they refused to accept that they had photographed us.”
“As the train stopped at Rajiv Chowk, they pushed Yohan outside. He fell on the floor where a police official was standing. They brutally attacked us at the platform,” he said.
The cop took all six to a Delhi Police kiosk upstairs where a lone constable was stationed. The three boys went inside the police booth, but the attackers were standing outside the enclosure. Soon, a large number of people gathered there.
“They were daring us to come outside. As the policemen who had rescued and brought us to the enclosure left the spot, the cop who was deployed in the kiosk also stepped out after some time and told the mob gathered outside something in Hindi, which we could not understand. We bolted the booth from inside to save our lives, but the frenzied mob smashed the glass facade and entered the police booth. They started hitting us with sticks and rods. Some of them were throwing furniture on us,” said 22-year-old Yohan, a student of BCA at Amity University.
Mapaga, who has suffered a fractured hand, said, “When we left with no option to escape, we tried to climb the rooftop of the enclosure. Someone bit me on my leg and I fell down to the floor. I was being slapped despite bleeding from my hand and head. I prayed them with folded hands to spare us as we are students, but nobody was ready to listen.”
Ironically, the whole drama was allegedly taking place before the cop who had stepped out of the kiosk. “We prayed to him as well to save us but he pushed us inside the enclosure,” he alleged.
The young students were finally rescued by four-five policemen who came to the spot and cordoned the area to keep the mob away. They were taken to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital from where they were released after sometime.
They have suffered severe injuries in head, hands and wrists which had to be stitched.
When asked if they had passed objectionable comment, as alleged, against a woman in the metro train, he said, “There was no female commuter standing with them. The allegation is baseless.