Police Kill 10 Sudanese Protestors in Cairo

The New York Times ^ | 30 December 2005 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

[djsunzi]

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Egyptian police turned water cannons on Sudanese war refugees and beat them with sticks Friday, brutally clearing out a squatters camp in a city park. At least 10 people were killed, the government said.

Hundreds of Sudanese have been living in the park since September to protest the U.N. refugee agency's refusal to consider them for refugee status. They want to be resettled in a third country, such as the United States or Britain, rather than go home after a peace deal ended the 21-year-long civil war in Sudan.

In Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, expressed his shock and sadness over the violence and deaths.

''Although we still do not have all of the details or a clear picture of what transpired, violence left several people dead and injured,'' Guterres said. ''There is no justification for such violence and loss of life. This is a terrible tragedy and our condolences go to all the families of those who died and to the injured.''

[tkathy]

They should all go back to their homelands and work to make decent countries.

[The_Republican]

Easy to pick out.

[joan]

Go back and be killed by the Muslims, or taken as slaves, or have their fingers, hands or arms cut off?

These are Christian refugees who fled Muslims, and therefore treated as dirt by the UN and the international community.

Up to 3,000 protesters had been living at the camp since it was set up on 29 September, many of them sleeping in the open.

[Lijahsbubbe]

You're right Joan. If anyone should be entitled to receive refugee status, these people should.

Yet the U.N cries about terrorists targeted in Israel.