This is with reference to a news reports that the American Consul General Andrew T Simkin, along with a team, has met Christian leaders and related groups to “assess the situation” over the recent attacks on churches in the State. Also, a detailed dossier has been reported to have been handed over to the Consul General.
This conduct is most unbecoming of a diplomat and amounts to interference in the internal affairs of another country, which America has made a regular practice of. Who has given him sanction to look into the law and order problems of the State?
At the most, he should have restrained himself with a generalised disapproval of the unfortunate happenings. He has clearly overstepped himself. The external affairs ministry should summon the diplomat, retrieve the dossier and lodge a strong protest over his actions.
The entire incident resembles a neighbour poking his nose into a family dispute. The neighbour should be thrown out and the dispute resolved within the confines of the home
