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Sikh boy kills himself after racial bullying at school

By Liz Fekete

1 December 1996

A 13-year-old Sikh boy, Vijay Singh, hanged himself from the banisters of his Manchester home after being racially bullied at school.

Vijay was taunted on the football pitch as 'bobble head' because of his Sikh gota, and was physically attacked, and yet the press chose to ignore the racial dimension to his suicide.

A special telephone service for young people, Childline, has said that 29 per cent of all calls from ethnic minority children were about bullying as compared to 14 per cent of all calls.

CARF 35 December '96/January '97

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