Egyptian border guards shot and wounded a refugee from Ethiopia as he tried to cross illegally into Israel, police said Saturday.
The 20-year-old was trying to cross the border with a group of other migrants from several African countries when [the blood thirsty] border guards ordered them to stop. When the group failed to do so, police said, a border guard shot the Ethiopian man in the foot.
The man was taken to hospital in al-Arish, on Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.
The rest of the Ethiopian’s party escaped into the Sinai desert, police said, adding that the wounded man had told them that he and the others in his group had paid $1,000 each to smugglers in exchange for help crossing the border into Israel.
Residents of towns near Egypt’s border with Israel, which stretches along 250 kilometers of desert, said they had noticed tighter security and heavier police presence along the border in recent days.
The shootings on the border have repeatedly drawn condemnation from international human rights groups.
“Attempted border crossings are not a capital offense,” said Joe Stork, associate Mideast director at the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch, after border guards killed four migrants on the border on September 9.
The London-based watchdog Amnesty International says nearly 40 migrants have been killed trying to cross into Israel from Egypt since 2008. Israeli groups say thousands more have succeeded in crossing illegally.
7 thoughts on “Savage Egypt police shoot another Ethiopian refugee”
how many times Ethiopians have to die by such senseless act? Can stopping the flow of Blue Nile river be a solution or there is other means to send strong signal to Cairo?
The Egyptians are not fond of us. They take our nice and friendly respect for them for granted. Ofcourse! they must be thinking we are idiots for letting them use the river Nile which drains our clean water and silt while we are starving!!
Difficult to blame them, thoug, they are used to the supremacy for generations!!!!!!!!!
Ayele,
How in the hell do you do that, my friend? Can we be realistic for a change. That is one of the reason the Weyanes aree peeing all over us for we have chosen to live in dream world!
You are worried about the loss of these people, who never learn from the past……As far as the Egyptian are concerned, they have a green light from Meles to do so…….As far the Nile goes, for sure it is the if and when the Meles government ever attempted to build anything, there will be war and guess who is going to pay for it……
Ethiopian patriots and intelectuals must come together and find different ways and means how to avenge this insult.
Ayele,
We can’t do that until the bastard Meles is chased out of power.
Meles promised cheap labor for foreign land owners ,that was one of the plan when he rounded up people in October of 2006.To force all demonstrators to perform cheap labor , his plan failed but his intentions are still in progress.