Posted on 02/28/2022 7:56:59 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan
Nigeria's government has condemned reports that its citizens, and those of other African countries, have been stopped from leaving war-torn Ukraine.
Isaac, a Nigerian man trying to get into Poland, said border staff told him they were "not tending to Africans".
"We've been chased back, we've been hit with police armed with sticks," he told the BBC.
South African foreign office official Clayson Monyela also said students had been "badly treated" at the border.
There have also been numerous reports of Ukrainian security officials preventing Africans from catching buses and trains going to the border.
Osemen, from Nigeria, told the BBC he had tried to get on a train in Lviv to take him to the Polish border but was told only Ukrainians would be allowed on board.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said there were about 4,000 Nigerians in Ukraine, mostly students.
He said one group had repeatedly been refused entry to Poland so they travelled back into Ukraine to head for Hungary instead.
"All who flee a conflict situation have the same right to safe passage under the UN Convention, and the colour of their passport or their skin should make no difference," Mr Buhari said in a tweet.
More than 500,000 Ukrainians have managed to flee the Russian invasion so far.
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University student Ruqqaya, from Nigeria, was studying medicine in Kharkiv in the east of the country when the city was attacked. She walked for 11 hours overnight before she arrived at the Medyka crossing with Poland.
"When I came here there were black people sleeping on the street," she told the BBC.
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I’m hearing far too much about the way Africans are being treated in the Ukraine (and never a complaint about Russia) for this to be bogus.
Now liberals will start supporting Putin. “Kill the racist Ukrainians!”
With that many Nigerians on hand, I wonder if scams against women over the internet are common there....
CALLING DR PHIL........
The whole darn world is racist!!!
On several of the videos of crowds trying to get on trains (they appeared to be only allowing women and children to board) I noticed Africans (males) pushing ahead and trying to board.
The concept of women and children only seemed to escaped them.
How about Nigerian treatment of African Christians!
“Nazis In Ukraine” is almost a myth according to the Putin hating apologists for Ukraine out there.
I’ve heard most all males are being told they cannot leave. Only women and children getting on trains to Poland. The rest are told to stay and defend the country, regardless of skin color.
I think this is what is meant.
From what I've gleaned over many years monitoring news and social media from African nations, including in two African languages, I can tell you the only worse place in the world to be black is China.
Not a fan of the by any means, but facts are facts.
Not a fan of the WAR, that is.
Yesterday was a slow day. I only had two African scammers using some big tit blond’s stolen photo asking to be my friend.
Were they shouting "This is MAGA country!"?
Regards,
But, if they're black, they have to let them leave ahead of Ukrainian women and children refugees?
Sounds kinda racist.
Sure. If even Ukrainian men need to be press-ganged, then why spare foreign men, women and children.
The Nazi fighters were commanded by ex-Israeli soldiers during the 2014 Maidan fighting that overthrew the pro-Russian government.
They hate Russians more than Jews consider the famine in the 1930’s that led to thousands upon thousands of Ukrainians volunteering to serve Nazi Germany when 1941 came along.
And I guess Ukrainians also hate Africans based on videos put out from Ukraine in recent days.
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