Comatose Burundi Student to be Flown Home: Brutally Beaten up in Punjab.
IBTimes (India) - World 12:07 30-May-14May 30, 2014 16:35 IST
Photo: Yannick Nihangaza, a Burundi national, had come to India to
study Computer Science.
It's been over two years that Burundi national Yannick Nihangaza has
been lying in a vegetative state in India, where he had come to pursue
higher studies. However, the Punjab government has finally decided to
bear the cost of flying Yannick back to his country in an air
ambulance.
On 22 April 2012, the 24-year-old, who was pursuing a Bachelor's in
Computer Science from Lovely Professional University (LPU), was
attacked by nine youngsters in Jalandhar, in what is believed to be a
racially provacated ambush. Yannick was brutally beaten up and left
for dead.
The attack left Yannick in a comatose state, and it is understood that
the youngster has no chance of ever making it back to a normal life.
The incident drew only minor attention in the country. But following
pressure from the international community, the Punjab government
arrested seven of the nine accused youth, who wer sentenced to a
10-year prison term.
For the last two years, Yannick's father Nestor Ntibateganya has been
requesting the Indian government to help him take his son home. After
repeated petitions, the Punjab government has now arranged an air
ambulance to shift him back to his home in Bujumbura, Burundi's
capital city.
Nestor, a 60-year-old economist, has been living in India for the past
two years, looking after his son. During this period, he met several
politicians in Punjab, trying to get their help in getting his son
home.
The father let out his anguish in a heart-warming letter, published by
Hindustan Times.
"I sent my son to this country to study. He was a harmless, great
child and outstanding student who was constantly busy learning the
skills needed for his future... He was not out on the street to learn
how to kill, steal or do other kind of evil like that done to him by
these killers who are the citizens of your great nation," Nestor had
written to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on 20 June 2012.
"I am writing to you as a father writing to another father, someone
who has known and experienced love of a child and has given care and
love to other human beings like you."
And Badal has now decided to bear the expenses to send Yannick home
(estimated around Rs 75 lakh).
Yannick has been lying in coma at a Patiala-based private hospital.
His brain is severely damaged, and there is very little scope that he
will ever walk again.
"It is good that the government has finally agreed to shift my son and
hope that when it materializes, it happens safely as Yannick is too
weak," TOI quoted Nestor.
Though a final date has not yet been finalised, Yannick is expected to
be flown to Brumic Medical and Research Centre, Burundi, in the next
few days.
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