US university sued over Malaysian PhD student's suicide after months of racist abuse


Pic from Jerusha Sanjeevi’s Facebook page

PETALING JAYA: She was a bright young Malaysian pursuing a doctorate in clinical and counselling psychology because she wanted to help children the world over.

But she also had to persevere through months of what she described as racial bullying and insults, and when her university's psychology department seemingly did nothing, she could endure no more.

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