8 people killed, including 6 Asians:Racial hatred was highest in US last year, 40% attacks on Chinese American people

 

A recent rally in New York against the attacks was demonstrated by Lucy Ching, a member of the Asian American Community (Chinese Organization) in New York, who said the attacks were a reminder of the situation after the 9/11 terror attacks. (Symbolic photo)

On Wednesday, 8 people, including 6 of Korean origin, were killed in three shootings in the Atlanta area of ​​the US. The shooting incident took place at a spa center run by people of Chinese and Korean descent. There has been widespread fear among people of Chinese and Korean descent after the incident. This is the biggest attack in the growing attacks on people of Asian, Chinese and Korean descent after Trump blamed China for Corona.

The Anti-Hate Anti-Defamation League released a report on Wednesday about the rapidly growing white supremacy propaganda (white supremacist propaganda) in the US. According to the report, in the year 2020, 5125 incidents of apartheid, racism, anti-Semitism and other hatreds were recorded in America. This number has almost doubled as compared to 2724 incidents of 2019. Hate crime and white supremacy propaganda have increased in the last decade only in 2020. The organization said that there has been a huge increase in Het Group on online platforms, which is also very difficult to track.

Connie Chung Joi, the founder of Asian American Advancing Justice, says the attacks on Chinese and people of Asian descent are much higher than the police reported. A large number of people do not report incidents of assault and harassment as the police do nothing in such cases. After the rise of Corona, the FBI warned that attacks on people of Asian descent would increase. But racial attacks are now growing faster than anticipated.

I'm afraid to go alone for the first time in New York

Louisa Yang, 47, who runs a spa shop in New York's China Town, says that I have never seen such fear in my life. For the first time I am afraid to venture out alone in a city like New York. I do not know when to attack me. The highest 40% of such attacks in the US have been reported by the Chinese American people. Then there are 15% Korean and 8% Filipino American.

Racist attacks on Chinese increased more than 10 times in New York

There have been more than three thousand attacks on South Asians between March and December 2020 in New York. In New York alone, there have been 10 times more attacks than in 2019. Most victims of these attacks are people of China, Taiwan and Thailand origin. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has already said that such attacks are an injustice on immigrants. They will hold a meeting with the leader of the migrants to stop the attack.