Is it true that Indian KKK news cartoon angers Australia (Reuters)?
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia’s government and police angrily criticized on Friday a cartoon in an Indian newspaper that depicted police as racist Ku Klux Klan members following the fatal stabbing of an Indian student. A cartoon in the Delhi Mail Today newspaper portrayed a person in a white Ku Klux Klan hood and wearing a Victoria state police badge against a black background and the words: “We are yet to ascertain the nature of the crime.” Accounting graduate Nitin Garg, 21, originally from the state of Punjab in northern India, was stabbed to death last Saturday night on his way to a job at a fast food outlet in Melbourne. “To say that our detectives are going slow on this, or for some reason trying to protect somebody, is incredibly offensive and wrong,” said Greg Davies, secretary of the Victoria Police Association, the police officers’ union. Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the country’s police were doing an outstanding investigating Garg’s murder and a series of attack
A cartoon in the Delhi Mail Today newspaper portrayed a person in a white Ku Klux Klan hood and wearing a Victoria state police badge against a black background and the words: “We are yet to ascertain the nature of the crime.” Accounting graduate Nitin Garg, 21, originally from the state of Punjab in northern India, was stabbed to death last Saturday night on his way to a job at a fast food outlet in Melbourne. “To say that our detectives are going slow on this, or for some reason trying to protect somebody, is incredibly offensive and wrong,” said Greg Davies, secretary of the Victoria Police Association, the police officers’ union. Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the country’s police were doing an outstanding investigating Garg’s murder and a series of attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney drawing diplomatic protests and travel warnings from New Delhi. “Any suggestion of the kind is deeply offensive and I would condemn the making of such comment,” Gillard said.
Reuters – Australia’s government and police angrily criticized on Friday a cartoon in an Indian newspaper that depicted police as racist Ku Klux Klan members following the fatal stabbing of an Indian student. » Full Story on Yahoo! News Sources: http://news.yahoo.
