‘Why is this happening?’: violent attacks terrify Ireland’s immigrant community | Ireland
IN West Dublin Tallaght’s suburb, a group of young people, then blamed, beaten and partially robbed an Indian man who was surprisingly and withdrawn. A gang after days He attacked another Indian man In the nearby clondalkin suburb, he hit his face, chest, back and legs, leaving a break, wounds and more than one bruise.
Days later, two male passengers opened an Indian taxi driver in the suburb of Ballymun’s Northern Dublin, hit him with a bottle and shouted: “Go back to your country.”
Days later, men in a county waterford housing property He punched a six -year -old girl On his face, he hit him on the genital area with a bike and said to him, “Go back to India.”
These are just a few of an alarm and astonishment among the Indian community in Ireland and other immigrants in recent weeks. In any case, the police are investigating, but no accusation has been imposed yet.
Indians Quiet protest He called on the Ministry of Justice and the Indian Embassy in Dublin to take security measures and avoid deserted areas. The media in India has long given Ireland to attacks, which have been a safe and hospitable destination, to attacks, which are a concussion.
Bir A man on the motorcycle stopped and hit his face when I stopped in traffic, Pun Punjab said a Dublin -based taxi driver from the state. “Why is this happening?”
Every new event makes the question more urgent. Since the 1990s, migration has once turned a mono ethnic country into someone where one -fifth of the population was born abroad. In recent years, anger against the lack of affordable houses has increased anger against immigrants and asylum seekers and led to protests, some of them severe. Thugs published attack videos for tents with refugees from Africa and the Middle East.
Since June, there has been a brutal attack on people from South Asia, many of which have been living in Ireland for years in Ireland and are taxi drivers, technology employees or medical experts.
Fahmeda Naheed, a poet and human rights activist in Cork for 13 years from Pakistan, said, uz We are accustomed to micro-salivation, ”he said. “We see more physical attacks. It is stronger and aggressive than the past.
NAHEED called for improved policing and procedures to encourage victims to stand out, to encourage the legislation of consultancy, anti -racist education and hate crime.
Far right -wing marginal political power continues, but the videos of anti -immigrant rallies are widely shared. Recently, in a playground, Irish Ticolors shows a small crowd of immigrants and a man who is not yet suitable for work. “They will never be integrated. Islam should never be allowed to a Christian country,” he said.
Amal Women Ireland, a group that supports Muslim women, called a dublin bus stop at a Dublin bus stop on June 30 as a “violent, racially motivated” attack.
A clear letter published in Reddit says that a writer from an Indian nurse and dozens of colleagues intend to quit Ireland because of abuse and fear. He referred to an event where Irish young people are bullying and mocking an eight -year -old girl. Nasıl How is this becoming a place? We came to Ireland to save lives and now we are afraid to walk home after a shift, or he says.
The letter is anonymous and the Guardian has not confirmed the authenticity, but has been a viral and reinforced concern about racism and xenophobia.
Jennifer Whitmore, a legislator of social democrats, said, “I see one of us I don’t like,” Posted this week on social media. “I think the fear of being behind some people, the only purpose of chaos, hate and a divided society is kidnapped by a small toxic individuals.”
