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Why Sikhs in New York are angry
July 01, 2008
Angry over the attack on a 12-year-old girl, who had her long hair cut off by a fellow student, the third such incident within two months, the Sikh community in New York took out a protest march on Monday, demanding action to stop such cases.
Gurprit Kaur's hair was chopped off by a fellow student on June 9 in a school in Flushing in Queens suburb of New York City, five days after one Jagmohan Singh Premi was punched on the face in another school by a fellow student, who was trying to remove his turban.
The Sikh Coalition, which spearheaded the protest and organised the march, says that its survey has found that more than 60 per cent Sikh students in 400 New York City
Public Schools face harassment or are subjected to violence because of their faith.
Image: Members of the Sikh community march through the streets of Queens, New York, to protest attacks on Sikh children in city schools.
Text: PTI | Photographs: Jay Mandal/On Assignment
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