Under John Kirby’s leadership, the White House has reiterated its commitment to stopping attacks against Indian and Indian American students.
There have been numerous attacks against Indian and Indian American students across the nation, which US President Joe Biden and his administration have addressed. There is no justification for violence, according to John Kirby, the National Security Council’s Coordinator for Strategic Communications, who was speaking to the media.
“Cultural, gender, racial, or any other reason is not an acceptable justification for violence. Regarding the spate of attacks on Indian students and members of the Indian American community, Kirby told reporters in this country,” That’s just not acceptable.
“The President and this administration have been working very, very hard to make sure we’re doing everything we can to work with state and local authorities to try to thwart and disrupt those kinds of attacks and make it clear to anybody who might consider them that they’ll be held properly accountable,” Kirby added.
In the last several weeks, at least four Indian American students have died, according to reports from the US.
In January, a heroin addict attacked Vivek Saini, a student who worked part-time in a department store in Lithonia, Georgia, and killed him. An attack occurred in February on Syed Mazahir Ali, an Indian student at Indiana Wesleyan University.
Neel Acharya of Purdue University and Akul Dhawan of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign both died in January, presumably as a result of prolonged exposure to cold temperatures at night after excessive drinking.
This month, Shreyas Reddy Benigeri, a student at Cincinnati’s Lindner School of Business who was of Indian descent, was discovered dead in Ohio.
Leader of the Indian American community Ajay Jain Bhutoria expressed his profound distress at the senseless deaths of these students in different instances and emphasized the critical need for improved safety protocols for students studying in the US.
He insisted that local law enforcement and college administrations needed to act quickly to resolve these issues.
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