Northeast citizens faced racial discrimination amid COVID-19 outbreak, says govt. study
The Hindu
They were “harassed, abused and traumatised” and disparagingly called ‘coronavirus,’ says study
A study conducted by the government has found that amid the COVID-19 outbreak last year, people from the northeast States “faced an increased number of acts of hate and prejudices against them”. A series of attacks were reported in various parts of the country where they were “harassed, abused and traumatised” and were disparagingly called ‘coronavirus,’ the study said. The Hindu accessed the findings of the unpublished report. The Centre for Criminology and Victimology at the National Law University Delhi conducted the study under the aegis of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Delhi on the prevalence of hate crimes against the people of the region in six metropolitan cities — Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.More Related News