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'Poverty And Racism' Driving Migrant Out Of Egypt: Ghostly Border
29 June 2009
EL-Arish - Egyptian police shot dead a migrant on Wednesday as he tried to enter Israel illegally, a security official said. The official did not identify the nationality of the dead man, the second migrant to have been killed by Egyptian police this month. "Security asked him to stop, and then fired warning shots. He died on his arrival at the hospital, with a bullet wound to the chest," the official said. Egyptian police killed at least 28 sub-Saharan migrants near the border in 2008. The porous 250-kilometre frontier has become a major transit route for migrants, asylum-seekers and drug smugglers. Israel has asked Egypt to clamp down on the traffic.
Egypt's policy of shooting migrants has generated harsh criticism from human rights groups. The migrants say they try to leave Egypt because of poverty and racism.
In the beginning of this month, Egyptian police shot and killed an African migrant attempting to cross the border into Israel and a second with him was wounded, security and medical sources said. For years Egypt tolerated tens of thousands of Africans on its territory but its attitude hardened after it came under pressure to halt rising migration into Israel. The number of migrants killed at the border has dipped since last year, when at least 28 were killed. The latest incident is the second such case this year. The killings on the border have been a concern in the past to the United States, which has expressed worries about rights issues in Egypt. US President Barack Obama visits Egypt to deliver a speech to the Muslim world on Thursday.
The dead man did not have identification papers but was believed to be African. He was shot in the head, the sources said. The sources said a second man, a 20-year-old Eritrean, was shot in the back and was in a critical condition in a hospital in el-Arish in the north of Sinai peninsula. A routine Egyptian border patrol spotted the two men at dawn near the border with Israel and ordered them to stop, opening fire when they did not heed the warning, the sources added.
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