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| Egypt Police Kill Migrants Trying to Sneak into Israel |
| 2012-01-22 |
| [An Nahar] Egyptian border police rubbed out two African migrants and maimed a third as they tried to cross illegally into Israel early Saturday, security officials said. Border police spotted the man and woman, whose nationality remains unknown, as they tried to climb over barbed wire along the frontier and fired on them after they refused to heed calls to stop. It was the first reported shooting this year of migrants as they try to sneak into Israel seeking a better life. About 11 migrants, most of them from Africa, were killed last year. Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... said in 2010 year that Egyptian police had killed at least 85 migrants near the border since 2007. Israel has repeatedly asked Egypt to clamp down on migrant traffic and smuggling along the mostly non-existent border. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I bet Israelis had a different type of traffic on mind and beside, I doubt that they asked to give the migrants rosebuds. |
| Posted by: Twobyfour 2012-01-22 07:24 |