Egyptians kill another Sudanese; world yawns

How many Sudanese have been killed by Egyptian border guards? Fifty? One hundred? Two hundred?

I have no idea. It’s a body count that the AP isn’t interested in keeping. The wire services barely acknowledge that not a week goes by without another beating, shooting, or killing of a Sudanese refugee by Egyptian border guards. The IDF, as far as I know, has not shot a single Sudanese refugee. Which, of course, is the point: If Israelis were doing this, there would be UN resolutions condemning it. Egyptians are shooting a few Sudanese? So what? What are a few more added to the total murdered by the Janjaweed? Another Sudanese was killed today? Who cares?

And please take note of how the man was killed:

An Egyptian medical official says border guards have shot dead a Sudanese migrant who was trying to cross illegally into Israel.

Imad Kharboush, head of the Northern Sinai ambulance department, says that a 24-old Sudanese man from the war-torn Darfur region was shot with a bullet in the back of his head while trying to get across barbed wire on the Egypt-Israel border early Wednesday.

Disgusting. But it’s double standard that is in evidence throughout the media: If Israel or the U.S. were to do something like that, there would be thousands of stories and front-page headlines, an investigation into the man’s death, and calls for the arrest of the shooter. This? One story found on Google News. Two, counting the AP reprint in Ynet. And the AP boilerplate is missing something.

Many African migrants seeking jobs try to cross illegally into Israel from Egypt.

It’s missing the the rest of the story. The truth would be, “So far this year, Egyptian border guards have killed xxx unarmed Sudanese civilians trying to sneak across the border into Israel.”

Apparently, the AP only counts the results of American and IDF bullet strikes.