Calling the recent spate of attacks on Indian students in the US “unacceptable”, a State Department official said Thursday that President Joe Biden and the administration are working “very, very hard” to “thwart and disrupt” such incidents.
Addressing a routine press conference in Washington, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby said that there is no excuse for violence based on race, gender, religion or any other factor.
“That’s just unacceptable here in the United States,” he said, adding, “… the President and this administration has 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’s statement comes amid numerous reports of attacks on and deaths of Indian-origin students in different parts of America since January 2024.
In the latest such incident, Vivek Taneja, a 41-year-old Indian-origin executive, died in the United States after he was assaulted during an altercation outside a restaurant in Washington. He had reportedly gotten into a verbal spat with an unknown man. The fight had turned physical and Taneja had been knocked to the ground following which he hit his head on the pavement. He died of his injuries in the hospital.
Earlier in January, Vivek Saini, a 25-year-old Indian-origin graduate was hammered to death by a homeless drug addict in Georgia state’s Lithonia city. In the horrifying incident that was caught on camera, Saini, who was working as a part-time clerk at a store, was struck nearly 50 times on the head with a hammer.
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