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Article: South Asians bore brunt of hate crimes post 9/11: Report documents nearly 250 bias-motivated incidents targeting Asian Americans
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- India Abroad
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- March 22, 2002
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Haniffa, Aziz
India Abroad
03-22-2002
Unlike in previous years, in which most bias-motivated incidents against
Asian Americans involved male victims and perpetrators, 'the post 9/11
backlash victims and perpetrators include women and men, small business
owners and students, mothers and children,' an Asian American advocacy
group has said. The brunt of the hate crimes was borne by South Americans,
particularly Sikhs, it said.
The National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, in a report titled
Backlash: When America Turned on its Own, released to coincide with the six
month anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, said along with its affiliates it
had 'documented nearly 250 bias-motivated incidents ...