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From NPR:

RACIST TREATMENT OF AFRICANS AND SOUTH ASIANS IN UKRAINE AND POLAND.

African and South Asian students complain about Polish racism on the Ukraine border.

Yesterday Indian TV too reported about the treatment meted out to Indian students escaping the fighting.

Not only this fleeing students have to brave the gauntlet of armed gangs of Ukrainians pulling them out of trains and removing them from stations to make way for Ukrainians fleeing their own country.

We see the Ukrainian ambassador constantly appearing on Indian TV remonstrating on the Modi government’s Ukraine policy. Has he been asked about Ukrainian attitudes?

Now is the Modi government going to take this up with the Polish and Ukrainian governments and tell them this behaviour is unacceptable?

“SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST:

Among the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Ukraine are students from Africa, India and Latin America.

One student from India was killed in shelling this morning in the northeastern city of Kharkiv. Amid all this desperation and chaos, some students of color say they've been badly treated, and their governments have complained.

But the picture is complicated because other students say they've been met with kindness. As NPR's Eleanor Beardsley and Frank Langfitt crossed into Hungary this morning, they spoke to refugees crossing with them.

FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: Clement Akenboro is an economics student from Nigeria. And on Sunday, he tried to pack into a train in the city of Lviv - that's in the far west of Ukraine - and head over the border into Poland. Here's what he told our colleague, Tim Mak.

CLEMENT AKENBORO: The security men - they drug all the Black guys from the train.

TIM MAK, BYLINE: Really?

AKENBORO: I was already in the train.

ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: Already on the train and thrown off, Akenboro says.

He was so embarrassed to be thrown off the train, he felt like crying. He's not the only foreigner of color who's felt mistreated trying to cross borders here. Indian students have told Indian television that border guards beat them.

Freedom Chidera, also Nigerian, has spent five years studying medicine in Ukraine. He told me that border guards insulted him and other people of color.

FREEDOM CHIDERA: I'm traumatized. I need to relax. I need to detox my mind. I've been through a lot in Polish border.

I mean, that's the worst experience in my life. I called my mother. I was crying. I was really crying to her.”

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