EDITOR’S NOTE: The Egyptian government must be held accountable for such savage act. They keep shooting at poor Ethiopians seeking refugees as stray dogs. It is immoral and also against international rules on protecting the rights of refugees.
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) – Egyptian police shot and killed an Ethiopian migrant near the border with Israel on Tuesday, seriously wounded a women he was traveling with and arrested eleven others, medical and security sources said.
A security source said an Egyptian patrol spotted 13 migrants attempting to cross the barbed wire border with Israel. When ordered to stop they fled towards Israeli territory and police opened fire, the source said.
The man who died was shot in the head. He did not have identification documents on him. An 18-year-old Eritrean women was shot in the chest and was transferred to a hospital in Egyptian Rafah, where her condition was reported as critical.
The other migrants, ten Ethiopians and one Eritrean, were detained. Egypt has arrested scores of African migrants, mostly from Eritrea and Ethiopia, in recent months and has killed at least eight this year.
Analysts and aid workers say the flow of migrants from the Horn of Africa through Egypt to Israel has increased as it has become more difficult to travel on other routes, such as via Libya to Europe. [ID:nLS359973] (Reporting by Yusri Mohamed; writing by Alastair Sharp; editing by Robin Pomeroy)
11 thoughts on “Egypt police gun down Ethiopian migrant at Israeli border”
In those neighborhoods you can shoot a person with a gun on foot or score of people missile from a helicopter for any reason. But these governments are necessary for the national security of US. We may say outrageous but the answer is :Sorry humanitarians.
We have to be careful when we emotionally blame countries on their attempt to prevent illigal migrants into their territories. I would never take sides with anyone, egypt has full right to prevent anyone from entering its territory or refusing to stop or failing to produce identification. Do not forget that this area is one of the most unstable regions of the current world
What a surprise!! The Egyptians never liked Ethiopians, Eritreans and “black Africans” in general. Go to Cairo, and a dog is treated better than you, if you are in the above catagory. All this, by surviving with our water, which we look at flowing down the hills, while we are dying of thirst and hunger. To add insult to injury, they are not killing us because we are in Egypt, but because we are crossing to Israel!!!
Am I missing something?
We need a great “Abay” wise response to this absured treatment of our people just for standing aloof when they are prospering from our gracious accomodations which has been taken as stupidity. May be we are!!!!!!!!
I see our people growing more desperate and walking to death with both eyes closed. what can we, Ethiopians, do to stop this national crisis? Is this beyond us? Why is the government is not declaring national emergency on over population, poverty and mass migration (suffering of our citizens abroad)? Is the hunger in Ethiopia beyond Ethiopians humanity, charity, and ingenuity? Come on people! Let us come together just for the sake of our brothers and sisters and solve this serious human suffering that has been going on for almost half a century now. What other cause there is that can galvanize a group of people than this kind of untold amount of human suffering. As the editor said above, being Ethiopian feels like being a stray DOG. I’m 100% convinced that this happens because we are not charitable people. We just wait for strangers from some distant land to come to our peoples aid all the time. Sometimes they help us with handouts, other times they put us out of our misery with a bullet. But us, the sole stakeholders, don’t even do a fraction of what we do for the cause of Democracy and freedom, which are very important elements in alleviating poverty but not necessarily the only solutions for our hunger and mass migration that are happening right now. We need a solution right now! We don’t have to have Democracy and freedom to care for one another. Freedom of expression doesn’t necessarily have to precede charity. Let’s us make an individual grass root effort to solve hunger and deprivation in Ethiopia. Ethiopian solutions for Ethiopian problems! Let’s roll!
Thanks to woyane and melses including his groups
They have the order from the above to kill innocent people trying to survive. Egypt should be brought to justice. Well, when you do not have a government who respects your right, not Egypt for sure.
sad news Egyptian drink our water and they kill our brothers and sisters is that fair for them?
why Egyptian kept on killing a refugees leaving their country?. How come aleast the UNHCR prefer to keep quit!.
Egypt have the right to protect it’s teritory, but I still feel bad fo the person who got killed. God bless you and your family, and for the ertrian lady please pray for her so she recover fast. I just feel sorry this happened. Please let’s love one another and be united. Ertrians I love you, oroma – I love you, Amharas – I love you. Can we be one country again. This message is for my young brothers, all of you over 35 years old have issues so please no responed back. We killed eah other so much, let’s stop. Stop being used, stop killing, stop hating, stop, stop, stop, stop, sttttoooopppp
Yes it is too sad that the Egyptians are shooting and killing our brothers and sisters. They know those people are not criminals and not armed. They could just fire to the air if they want to stop them. They often forget where the source of Nile is. I don’t blame them because we do not have a government who protects its own people.
Their will come rekoning bloody day with the egyptians. Keep on mistreating our people, and we will retaliate with a destractive blow to your miserable arid desert land. Beware begars canot be chosers.