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| Armed gangs torture Africans in Hajja |
| 2012-03-07 |
| [Yemen Post] The Yemeni Interior Ministry has affirmed that armed gangs hold Africans infiltrating to Yemen, revealing that 129 Ethiopians were held at Haradh districts located at the Yemeni-Saudi borders. It affirmed that the Africans were tortured and forced to contact their families residing in Soddy Arabia to transfer them money that reach to the hand of the culprits. The ministry said that Abdullah Al-Wahash and Khalid Eisa are the chieftains of the gangs, affirming that about49 Ethiopians were held by Al-Wahsh and 97 others by Eisa. The Ministry stated that it could release the Ethiopians, pointing out that it referred the criminals to courts. Media sources said that a cop shoppe of Haradh issued a list of 19 persons who held Ethiopians who were en route to Soddy Arabia through the Yemeni soil. They further said that some Africans are seized in Al-Sharafi region of Hajja, affirming that some of them were killed and others are subjected to tortures. Local human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups called on the Human Rights Ministry and security services to halt such crimes and take firm actions against the criminals. Security sources affirmed that powerful tribal sheiks of allowing the culprits to carry out such practices help and protect them. Hundreds of Africans perish every year attempting the hazardous sea voyage on rickety fishing boats run by smugglers. Fleeing their war-torn country, Africans are paying smugglers hundreds of dollars to be then helped into Soddy Arabia. The United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... refugee agency has expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s over the record numbers of Ethiopians and Somalis flocking to Yemen, despite the deteriorating the political and security crises sweeping the state. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Whatever happened to Holder's "my People"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-03-07 14:33 |
| #2 Anonymoose, according to the CIA World Factbook, 33.9% of the mighty AEthiops are Muslim. Almost all of the rest are Christians of one sort or another. -- tw at the Apple Store |
| Posted by: Snith Thinese6994 2012-03-07 11:32 |
| #1 Are the Ethiopians Muslims? This would make sense in that this community in Ethiopia is "restive" and trying to secede. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-03-07 08:12 |