In a secluded farmhouse surrounded by palm trees, a group of frightened young Africans peek nervously from behind the curtains, wondering where the next attack will come from.
In the past few weeks, they have suffered drive-by beatings by men armed with iron rods and machetes, been denounced as drug dealers and a “cancer” by government ministers and taunted in the street as “black monkeys”.
It could be a scene from apartheid South Africa, but it is Goa, India’s laid-back “hippy paradise”, and their tormentors are Indian politicians and police officers colluding in a brutal, racist campaign to drive them out, they told The Daily Telegraph.
That campaign has intensified since one of their compatriots, 36-year-old Obodo Uzoma Simeon, was hacked to death on Oct 30 outside an African restaurant in Parra, a smart village of whitewashed Portuguese colonial churches and shrines a few miles from the popular Baga and Anjuna beach resorts. Full story...
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In the past few weeks, they have suffered drive-by beatings by men armed with iron rods and machetes, been denounced as drug dealers and a “cancer” by government ministers and taunted in the street as “black monkeys”.
It could be a scene from apartheid South Africa, but it is Goa, India’s laid-back “hippy paradise”, and their tormentors are Indian politicians and police officers colluding in a brutal, racist campaign to drive them out, they told The Daily Telegraph.
That campaign has intensified since one of their compatriots, 36-year-old Obodo Uzoma Simeon, was hacked to death on Oct 30 outside an African restaurant in Parra, a smart village of whitewashed Portuguese colonial churches and shrines a few miles from the popular Baga and Anjuna beach resorts. Full story...
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