Nora Younis provides an eyewitness account of the Sudanese refugee sit-in in Egypt that erupted in violence when police stormed the protest center, which had been set up in an upscale Cairo neighborhood in front of the UN refugee office.
The three-month sit in came to an end when police used water canons and beat refugees as an audience of Egyptians stood by and cheered.
As one Sudanese refugee told AFP: “Look how this Arab country is treating us, just because we are black.”
Or Does It Explode has more, including a number of photographs.
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More here (h/t Tom Pechinski)
”…the protest center, which had been set up in an upscale Cairo neighborhood in front of the UN refugee office.”
I am shocked to see that the UN refugee office was located in an upscale neighborhood. Shocked, I tell you!
It was not immediately known where the security forces drove the refugees to.
Oh. That’s not at all ominous.
It’s interesting to watch AFP and Reuters bend their language around this story, where there’s no usual suspect to be villified. It’s either the UN or “Arabs” who’re the bad guys here, since the press has gone soft on the “Western [i.e. U.S.] inaction” angle lately (because of the hypocrisy).
The only bits of standard narrative the AFP squeezed in were that random-shot “polluted” and a boilerplate “including dozens of women.”
Yeah. You’re still at the cool kids’ table, AFP. Relax. Tell us what happened.
How long before a leftie shows up to point out that only white Republicans can be racist?
Water canons = dogma of the First Church of Aquaman.
The big guns need two “n”s ‘cause they’re, well, big.
Regards,
Ric
Well, thank a non-government-mandated-God the Egyptians weren’t monitoring their phone calls, that’s all I have to say…
Happy New Year, Ric – that was effing brilliant!
ric locke—Can one canon canonize many cannons?
Just think, in a few years Michael Moore will release his documentary about this tragedy and his story of how the refugees hindered Egyptian civil rights by having to acknowledge any existance of genocide in Darfur. And, Hollywood will award him an oscar for each category while raising donations to throw theme parties like “End World Poverty”, “United Nations for Collective Control” and “Aid the Victims of Theo Van Gogh ‘Submission’” all in the name of a NaziHilterCoEatingOilBabiesforRepugBreakfast conspiracy theory.
Their message: Liberalism is a fraud.
Another report on this is at:
Publius Pundit
Dead are 7 children, 7 women and 8 elderly persons.
You can say that UN inaction leads to needless murder.
Time for flushing out the UN building and installing the new U.D.N.
United Democratic Nations / wikipedia.org
Prompt attention to business at the UDN will save lives. TG
An update, via Tom Pechinski.