Egypt kills 3 African migrants in Sinai border ‘death zone’

The Jerusalem Post ^ | 4-1-10 | YAAKOV LAPPIN

[mlizzy]

Three African migrants seeking to illegally cross into Israel from the Sinai Peninsula were shot dead by Egyptian security forces over the past four days, according to a report released on Thursday by Human Rights Watch.

The report said the recent shootings brought the total number of people killed under similar circumstances to 12 since the start of 2010.

“Egyptian guards have made the Sinai border a death zone for migrants trying to flee the country,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “What’s more, the Egyptian government has not investigated even a single case of the 69 killings of migrants by border guards since 2007.”

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post from Cairo on Thursday, Human Rights Watch researcher Heba Morayef said the shootings were part of a strategy employed by Egypt aimed at dissuading future Africans from making the same journey.

“I think the fact that the information about each individual shooting is made public by the [Egyptian] security forces shows that this is deterrent policy,” she said.

“We were all more optimistic at the start of 2009 because there was a lull in the shooting for five month[s]. We took that as a sign to show that this practice can in fact be stopped,” Morayef said. “But then the shootings returned.”

[mlizzy]

In Thursday’s report, Human Rights Watch referred to a statement made last month by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, who said that she knew of “of no other country where so many unarmed migrants and asylum seekers appear to have been deliberately killed this way by government forces” --from the post.

[rbosque]

So...no “outrage” by immigrant groups? They’re pretty #@$%*&!^@ selective.

[Venturer]

What do they need to investigate.? What part of illegal dont they understand?

[GeezerConservative]

psst—hey, Mexico....

[Vigilanteman]

Why would nice third world immigrants and people of color, for that matter, want to leave a well-run Islamic paradise like Egypt to enter the racist, oppressive Zionist state? < / sarcasm>

[Tennessee Nana]

US kills 3 Mexican migrants in Mexican border ‘death zone’

Three Mexican migrants seeking to illegally cross into the US from Mexico were shot dead by American security forces over the past four days, according to a report released on Thursday by Human Rights Watch.

What ???

Wrong country ???

Oh...

Never mind

[ZULU]

Islam - the PEACEFUL religion.

[AuntB]

Huh?? thanks, nana, I’ll go read it.