Egyptians lynch Sudanese refugees
Egyptian soldiers lynched four Sudanese refugees trying to cross the border into Israel in full view of IDF troops who desperately attempted to pull them to safety. This is yet another example of the violent savagery of arab "civilization" which has no regard for life whatsoever. This incident starkly reveals the contrast between Israel and the Arabs. I don't expect to hear a peep out of the UN or human rights groups over this incident. While Israel is falsely depicted as a brutal oppressor by its enemies and their enablers in the west, the reality is that Israel is a humane country which tries to rescue Sudanese muslims, whereas their fellow muslims murder them in cold blood. Can we soon expect British academic boycotts of Egypt and complaints from Walt and Meirsheimer types in this country over our military aid to Egypt? I won't hold my breath.
The IDF caught the incident on tape, but Israel's channel 10 refuses to show it in order to avoid a diplomatic row with Egypt. This is infuriating, the tape ought to be shown. If Egypt had a tape showing IDF soldiers beating up arabs, would it hesitate to display it?
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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.
"They were aiming loaded weapons straight at us, I was afraid they were going to shoot us," he said.
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 entire incident took place on the Egyptian side of the border, IDF sources told Israel Radio later Thursday evening.
A Channel 10 commentator said the channel preferred not to show the tape, so as not to cause a diplomatic row with Egypt.
Egyptian authorities said that they would investigate the incident.
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So the Egyptians killed four Sudanese? How many Palestinians has Israel killed? Your double standards are laughable.
August 4, 2007 6:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Look, I don't like the tone of the intro here at all (I would have voted it down, but I read the post and found it interesting), but isn't there an implicit double standard in calling a double standard? If this happened, it's an egregious violation of international law. That it occurs in the context of much more egregious violations does not change that.
If you take human rights seriously, then there really isn't a side to take in this mess, save the side of victims of human rights abuses.
August 5, 2007 8:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's a double standard if you view this post in the overall context of LEL's blog posts, which tend to be heavy on the "bad things about Muslims" genre.
August 6, 2007 3:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
That I can't take issue with.
August 6, 2007 7:39 AM | Reply | Permalink