Egyptians murder Sudanese refugees

The Egyptians murdered four Sudanese refugees within sight of the IDF, even pulling one out of an IDF soldier’s hands as that soldier tried to save the man’s life.

Egyptian soldiers killed four Sudanese refugees near the Egypt-Israel border overnight Wednesday in full view of IDF troops, a shaken-sounding IDF soldier said in an interview with Channel 10, Thursday evening.

According to the soldier, female IDF troops operating night vision devices identified several refugees approaching the border in an attempt to infiltrate Israel and alerted other soldiers who arrived after a few minutes in an army jeep.

However, Egyptian troops who also discovered the refugees, fired upon them, immediately killing two and wounding a third. A fourth refugee ran towards the fence and an IDF soldier stretched out his hands, trying to help him cross.

At that point, the soldier recalled, two Egyptian soldiers arrived and started pulling at the refugee’s legs.

“It was literally like we were playing ‘tug of war’ with this man,” the soldier said. The soldier eventually loosened his grip on the man, fearing the Egyptians would shoot him.

You won’t read about this anywhere but in the Israeli press, and in the blogs that cover the Israeli press. The Egyptian border police are now firing on unarmed refugees. The continual mistreatment and murder of Sudanese refugees by Egyptian police is not of interest to a world far more interested in emphasizing every alleged misdeed by Israel or America.

The event was caught on tape, but you won’t see it. It won’t be used to prosecute those murderers.

The Egyptians then carried the man several meters away from the border fence, and proceeded to beat him and another wounded refugee to death with stones and clubs.

“What happened there yesterday was a lynch. These are not men, they’re animals. They killed him without even using firearms,” the soldier said. “We just heard screams of pain and the sounds of beatings. Then the screams stopped.”

The entire event was caught on IDF tapes, but the soldier said that his commanders, who were not at the site, would not dare watch them.

The UN Human Rights Commission can’t be bothered with the human rights of Sudanese refugees in Egypt. But I’ll bet next year, when they resume, they go after the refusal of Israel to accept Darfur’s refugees. Although by that time, Israel may have changed its policy on that.

Dozens of legislators from across the political spectrum have urged the government to refrain from deporting to Egypt Sudanese refugees who enter Israel through the Sinai Peninsula. Channel 10 reported yesterday on Israeli soldiers who said they had witnessed Egyptian security officers executing several refugees.

“The refugees need protection and sanctuary, and the Jewish people’s history as well as the values of democracy and humanity pose a moral imperative for us to give them that shelter,” the MKs said in a petition.

The document has been signed by 63 MKs including Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, Labor’s Amir Peretz, Hadash’s Dov Khenin and the National Religious Party’s Effi Eitam. The legislators propose to keep the refugees here until they are transferred to a safe haven abroad. MKs who signed the petition added suggestions such as building a high fence along the Egyptian border and stipulating quotas for the absorption of refugees.

When the world bodies and world media start criticizing the heinous actions of countries like Egypt, and stop criticizing Israel for defending herself, I can stop blogging.

Shyeah. Like that’s ever going to happen.