Stranded Indian runs into rude embassy official
Bishkek: The Indian government claims it left no stone unturned to help Indians stranded in riot-hit Kyrgyzstan. The Indian embassy in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek may have helped the students but it perhaps needs a lesson in courtesy.
A stranded Indian student made a phone call to the embassy, but an official refused to even listen to him and treated him rudely. The official rejected the man's plea when he told him that stranded students had no place to sleep in Bishkek. CNN-IBN has got exclusive access to the conversation in Hindi between the student and the embassy official. Student: We have been waiting for your help from yesterday. We have not had anything from last two days. If you haven't done anything to help then what can we do? Official: Come on! Did we not help you? Did you not get you out of there?
Student: No, sir, you haven't helped us. Don't tell us that you fed us for free -- we want something substantial done.
Official: Why don't you call after 10. The embassy will open at 10.
Student: We had no place to sleep last night.
Official: What I can do if you don't have a place to sleep?
Student: Why has the Indian government kept you?
Official: Indian government? I'll tell you why they have kept me -- tell me your name.
Student: They have kept you to help us.
Official: Yeah, yeah -- tell me your name at least.
Student: Is this a way to talk, sir? You are asking my name in this tone.
Official: Okay, tell me the name of all those whom I refused to help.
Student: Sir, we are just requesting you to help us at least listen to us.
The External Affairs Ministry denies allegations that it didn't do enough to help Indians in Kyrgyzstan. "Every single student was provided dinner last night (Monday) and breakfast this morning by the Indian embassy," it said in a statement.
Agencies add 116 Indians evacuated trapped in the riot-hit former Soviet republic. The stranded Indians included 15 students in Jalalabad and 99 students, a professor and a businessman in Osh.
In the worst ethnic violence in decades, at least 124 people have been killed and more than 1,685 wounded in southern Kyrgyzstan.
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