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In what is believed to be a hate crime an Indian software engineer was shot dead in a Kansas bar. A man reported to have shouted “go back to your country” before opening fire.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, and his friend Alok Madasani, both employees at tech company Garmin, were having a drink at a bar on Thursday when Adam Purinton, 51, allegedly shouted racist slurs at the pair and started shooting. Kuchibhotla, who was an aviation systems engineer, died in the hospital. Madasani and Ian Grillot, a third man who had stepped in to defend the pair, were injured.
Purinton, a navy veteran, has been charged with murder. Eyewitnesses say he believed the victims were of Middle Eastern origin and shouted “go back to your country” before shooting. Authorities have not yet classified the attack as a hate crime.
Grillot, 24, was shot in the hand and chest as he tried to subdue Purinton.
“I got behind him and he turned around and fired a round at me,” he said, in a video from his hospital bed.
“I was just doing what anyone should have done for another human being. It’s not about where he’s from, we’re all humans.
“I’m grateful to be alive,” he said. “Another half inch and I could be dead or never walk again.”
The incident has sent shockwaves through India, which provides the US with some of its most skilled and highly educated workers. Sushma Swaraj, India’s minister of external affairs, tweeted:
This is the first hate crime in USA in which a someone was killed after Donald Trump came to power riding on a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Dear Friend,
Trumpism has taken one life. In what is believed to be a hate crime an Indian software engineer was shot dead in a Kansas bar. A man reported to have shouted “go back to your country” before opening fire. Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, and his friend Alok Madasani, both employees at tech company Garmin, were having a drink at a bar on Thursday when Adam Purinton, 51, allegedly shouted racist slurs at the pair and started shooting. Kuchibhotla, who was an aviation systems engineer, died in the hospital. Madasani and Ian Grillot, a third man who had stepped in to defend the pair, were injured.
Two days after rolling out a draconian immigration policy that threatens the deportation of millions of undocumented workers and their families, President Donald Trump described the unfolding crackdown as “a military operation.”
As the Army Corps of Engineers forcibly evicted the last of the remaining water protectors from the Oceti Sakowin protest camp on Thursday, Indigenous opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made it clear that their expulsion would not be the end of the fight.
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An Indian Software Engineer Shot Dead In USA
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/24/an-indian-software-engineer-shot-dead-in-usa/
In what is believed to be a hate crime an Indian software engineer was shot dead in a Kansas bar. A man reported to have shouted “go back to your country” before opening fire. Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, and his friend Alok Madasani, both employees at tech company Garmin, were having a drink at a bar on Thursday when Adam Purinton, 51, allegedly shouted racist slurs at the pair and started shooting. Kuchibhotla, who was an aviation systems engineer, died in the hospital. Madasani and Ian Grillot, a third man who had stepped in to defend the pair, were injured.
Amid Mexico Talks, Trump Calls Deportations A “Military Operation”
by Bill Van Auken
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/24/amid-mexico-talks-trump-calls-deportations-a-military-operation/
Two days after rolling out a draconian immigration policy that threatens the deportation of millions of undocumented workers and their families, President Donald Trump described the unfolding crackdown as “a military operation.”
DAPL Opponents Vow to ‘Rise’ From Ashes of Oceti Sakowin and Keep Fighting
by Lauren McCauley
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/24/dapl-opponents-vow-to-rise-from-ashes-of-oceti-sakowin-and-keep-fighting/
As the Army Corps of Engineers forcibly evicted the last of the remaining water protectors from the Oceti Sakowin protest camp on Thursday, Indigenous opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made it clear that their expulsion would not be the end of the fight.
Australia PM Turnbull Backs Genocidal Apartheid Israel With Falsehood And Exceptionalism
by Dr Gideon Polya
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/24/australia-pm-turnbull-backs-genocidal-apartheid-israel-with-falsehood-and-exceptionalism/
Australian PM Turnbull has trashed Australia’s international reputation and isolated a pariah Australia from Humanity by making Australia second only to the US as a supporter of nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, grossly human rights-abusing, ultra-violently anti-Semitic, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel. Turnbull has embraced Apartheid Israel with praise, falsehood and racist exceptionalism on the occasion of the visit to Australia by serial war criminal Israeli PM Netanyahu.
‘Hindu’: Religion or Nationality?
by Ram Puniyani
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/24/hindu-religion-or-nationality/
Debate around the words Hindu, Hinduism, Hindutva is not new. Recently the assertion by Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalk (Supreme Dictator) of RSS that ‘everyone living in India is Hindu’ and that Muslims might be Muslim by religion but they are Hindus by nationality’, is yet another interpretation of Word Hindu. He said that this is Hindustan so all those living here are Hindu. Both these, Hindu is a nationality and we are Hindustan are erroneous formulations in today’s context and need to be examined from the point of view of Indian Constitution.
Arrogance Of Power In Kashmir
by Mir Suhail
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/24/arrogance-of-power-in-kashmir/
Travesty of justicle scaled up the heights. It hurts, deeply. Pellets. Serious crimes. killings. Allegations. I wonder if we’ll ever live without this sense of fear – the fear that you or your loved one will never return as they step out of the house.
2017 Davos meeting reaffirm corporate vision of the future of agriculture
by Kartini Samon
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/24/2017-davos-meeting-reaffirm-corporate-vision-of-the-future-of-agriculture/
In commercial farming, thestakes are high. Each season, farmers gamble on which crop will fetch the highest price or whichseed variety will reach the greatest yields. Sometimes the payoffs are big. But losses resulting from crop failure, a sudden drop in prices or scams by middlemen are just as frequent. Debt weighs heavily on the world’s farmers.
The Extradition Saga of Kim Dotcom
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/24/the-extradition-saga-of-kim-dotcom/
The hunger with which US officials pursue copyright or general intellectual property violations is insatiably manic. The degree of that hunger is expressed by the now suspended, and most likely defunct Trans-Pacific Partnership, an attempt to further globalise the policing of IP laws in favour of corporate and copyright control.
Hundreds of Ahwazis demonstrate in Brussels against Iranian regime’s crimes
by Rahim Hamid
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/24/hundreds-of-ahwazis-demonstrate-in-brussels-against-iranian-regimes-crimes/
Hundreds of Ahwazi Arabs led a demonstration in front of the European Union headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday in solidarity with the Arab people of Ahwaz currently experiencing the worst brutality to date in another crackdown by the Iranian regime.
It’s Time The MHA Crack The Whip on Child Trafficking
by Neha Saigal
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/24/its-time-the-mha-crack-the-whip-on-child-trafficking/
Child trafficking is an organized crime that is rampant around us, within our so-called well off and educated communities. The criminal nexus that drives, manages and controls child trafficking is complex.
The Unique Musical Creations of Kumar Sachin Dev Burman and Their Roots in the Reeds and Soil of Bengal- Part I
by Monish R Chatterjee
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/24/the-unique-musical-creations-of-kumar-sachin-dev-burman-and-their-roots-in-the-reeds-and-soil-of-bengal-part-i/
His apparent estrangement from the Tagorean epoch
To The Students Fraternity of AMU
An Open Letter
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/24/to-the-students-fraternity-of-amu/
When we talk about the issues of the campus we don’t want to be stuck in the binaries of left and right. Because the issues are not about these binaries. The issues that have recently gripped the AMU campus, particularly the hue and cry against Shehla Rashid’s visit to the university in a “All India Student Leader’s Meet” and the severe retaliation on the organizers from the people who claim to be the defenders of Islam, is to be understood in a larger context.
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