Click to play videoNew Delhi: The body of Devang Rawal – the Indian youth who was killed in Uganda riots – was flown in to Mumbai from Kampala on Sunday.
The body will be flown to Ahmedabad later on Sunday. Twenty-five-year-old Rawal was stoned to death by the mob in Kampala on Thursday when protests against the expansion of an Indian-owned sugarcane plantation turned violent.
Rawal was the only earning member of his family and had been working in Uganda for the past two years.
He was going to return home next month as his parents were reportedly finalising his wedding.
Rawal's family says the government needs to do a lot more to ensure the safety of Indians abroad. "He was there for two-and-a half years and we wanted to get him married. We even repaired the house for this, but he never returned,” said Devang’s father Shaileshbhai Rawal.
Thursday's mob attack in Uganda included Indians being dragged off motorbikes and beaten, their shops looted and a Hindu temple attacked. The attack revived bitter memories of virulent anti-India bashing by former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin who expelled nearly 75,000 Asians in 1972.
"There is simply no security for people who go out to work. This cannot work for too long. The government needs to ensure that they are safe," said Devang’s uncle Jitendrabhai Rawal.
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