Indian-Americans Stall Resolution

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Publication: FEER -Far Eastern Economic Review
Date: August 8, 2002
URL: http://www.feer.com/articles/2002/0208_08/p008intell.html

The increasingly influential Indian-American community has scored a recent victory in Washington by blocking a congressional resolution expressing concern about the violence of Hindu mobs against Muslims in the Indian state of Gujarat earlier this year. As word of the pending resolution spread, Indian-American groups inundated Senate offices with e-mails and phone calls opposing the resolution. "We did not move on this because we were buried" by messages, says a congressional aide. Senators had hoped to pass the resolution ahead of Secretary of State Colin Powell's visit to India in late July. The economically successful Indian-American community is credited with playing a key role in the warming of U.S.-India relations in recent years.
 

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