Egyptian Police Attack And Beat Sudanese Refugees

From the LA Times comes this story.

CAIRO, Egypt -- Egyptian riot police armed with clubs and water cannons stormed a downtown square packed with Sudanese war refugees before dawn on Friday in an attack that a human rights group said left 23 people dead.

About 2,000 Sudanese had been living for months in a dilapidated tent city near the offices of the the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, demanding to be resettled abroad. Their protest was viewed by many Cairo residents as an eyesore in one of the city's upscale areas.

Thousands of Egyptian riot police massed around the square early Friday and tried to force the demonstrators onto waiting buses. When they refused to leave, police fired water cannons and beat them with clubs. The clashes dragged on for hours; television footage showed the Sudanese fighting back with tent poles and bottles. Witnesses said at least one child, a young girl, was among the dead.

These refugees are non-Muslim refugees as a result of the Sudanese government's persecution of non-Muslims. I know, I know. The article didn't say that. But that's precisely why it is safe to assume that these were Christian Sudanese, there is no outcry and no condemnation by the left. That's why that information didn't make its way into the article.

So where is the UN, when you need them?

The confrontation "came after the UNHCR office in Cairo received warnings of a possible assault on its headquarters and staff, which in turn asked the security to protect them and disperse the sit-in," the statement said.

That should clear that up. The UN asked the police to disperse the crowd, because they HEARD of a POSSIBLE assault on their headquarters. So, from where I sit, the blood is on THEIR hands, on this one.

There is no justice in the UN, these days. Yet, the left still recognizes the authority of these clowns over and above the U.S., and other member nations. It has become nothing more than a den of thieves and the left ignores it like it's no big deal. Here is the ever so short statement by the Commissioner:

"There is no justification for such violence and loss of life," High Commissioner Antonio Guterres said in the statement.

I bet if this were the U.S. or one of its close allies, there would have been several paragraphs of condemnation, one or two of them from UN officials, another one or two from EU officials, and at least a couple from the Democratic leadership team.