our government is used to getting away with anything because we’re all sheep. they forgot india isn’t America.
The appearance is that Kerry and his people are not taking this Indian insult seriously. The diplomat was wrong if she was keeping custody of people without paying them properly or if she was otherwise mistreating them, but if this rough fingered interrogation really took place, it was wrong. Expect more of this until the matter is cleared or handled to some degree of India’s bureaucratic satisfaction. The days of seeing India completely as a third world dirt hole are largely over, even though there is still much barbarity in evidence, look at how many female tourists claim to have been raped last year, some by City Managers.
I somehow missed that part of the story.
India should tighten the vise. They should not let it go until a few appropriate heads roll.
This requires more than an apology. US embassy staff had better hope they aren't arrested for anything. The trip to the station house might not be pleasant.
I realize Indians aren’t Russians, and thank God for that. But I notice that when Dutch police assaulted a Russian diplomat in front of his family for supposedly legal reasons, the Russians responded in kind against a Dutch diplomat. This was just recently, and had to do with the Greenpeace ship’s crew.
India is an important ally of the real US, if not of the frauds presently sitting in the White House. India must insist that she be treated as such.
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Piling further pressure, India has asked the US Embassy not to screen any movies at the American Centre without obtaining a licence and gave it a deadline of January 20 to do so.
The American Centre regularly screens movies for invited audiences apparently without a licence to do so.To stop this "transgression", a notice has been sent by the government.
This is yet another step by India in retaliation for the arrest and humiliation of its Deputy Consul General in New York Devyani Khobragade, a 1999-batch IFS officer.
"To relentlessly put a stop to transgressions of US institutions in Delhi, Government has now brought the activities of the American Centre under the scanner," sources said. In a "tersely-worded communication sent to the American Centre on Friday, a deadline of 20th January, 2013 has been given to the American Centre to comply with Govt of India laws and Delhi Govt regulations and obtain license for screening films", the sources said. "Failure to comply with the directive would result in the American Centre having to cease screening films from 21 January", they added.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday has termed the arrest of Khobragade as "temporary aberrations" in Indo-US strategic relationship and said diplomacy should be given chance to resolve the issue.
Khobragade, the 39-year-old IFS officer, was arrested in New York on December 12 on charges of making false declarations in a visa application for her maid Sangeeta Richard and subjected to strip and cavity search, which had sparked outrage in India and resulted in government enforcing strict "reciprocity" and withdrawing extra privileges. India had downgraded the immunity of certain category of US diplomats and withdrew the immunity enjoyed by their family members.
US consular officials in four consulates in India are being issued new ID cards specifying the limited immunity which will not protect them from serious offences. This is in line with the restricted immunity given to India's Consular officials in the US.
Families of American consular officials will no longer have diplomatic ID cards, an out of way privilege enjoyed by them in India. Families of Indian consular officials do not have any such privileges.
The US consular staff is now only permitted to import their requirements during the first six months on assuming office as is provided in the Vienna Convention for Consular Relations. Previously, they were allowed to import their requirements over the three year period of tenure.
However, India has stepped up security at the US Embassy and other American institutions here, deploying as many as 150 police personnel during a 24-hour period. Allaying US concerns about security of their institutions after barricades outside the Embassy here were removed as a fallout of the arrest of senior Indian diplomat, official sources have said that at any given time 50 police personnel are deployed.
Good for India. I hope they continue the outrage!
Truthfully, this should be prosecuted as criminal sexual assault. This should not happen to this lady nor anyone else.
With this regime I am no longer proud to be an American.
WTF is wrong with the Obama administration? (he asked rhetorically)