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Eritrean refugees being enslaved and abused in Sudan and Egypt
Courtesy photo by Human Rights Watch
by Joseph Earnest February 11, 2014
Newscast
Media BERLIN—Traffickers have kidnapped, tortured, and killed refugees, most from Eritrea, in eastern Sudan and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, according to dozens of interviewees said Human Rights Watch. Egypt and Sudan
have failed to adequately identify and prosecute the traffickers and
any security officials who may have colluded with them, breaching both
countries’ obligation to prevent torture. "The first group of kidnappers said I had to pay $3,500. They blindfolded all of us and chained our hands and legs together. They threatened to remove our organs if we didn’t pay." "They beat me with a metal rod. They dripped molten plastic onto my back. They beat the soles of my feet and then they forced me to stand for long periods of time, sometimes for days." "I buy Eritreans from other Bedouins near my village for about $10,000 each. So far I have bought about 100. I keep them in a small hut about 20 kilometers from where I live and I pay two men to stand guard. I torture them so their relatives pay me to let them go. When I started a year ago, I asked for $ 20,000 per person. I know this money is haram [shameful], but I do it anyway. This year I made about $200,000 profit." It also documents torture by traffickers in eastern Sudan
and 29 incidents in which victims told Human Rights Watch that Sudanese
and Egyptian security officers facilitated trafficker abuses rather than
arresting them and rescuing their victims. Egyptian officials deny
there are trafficker abuses in Sinai, allowing it to become a safe haven
for traffickers. *Click here to read or download entire human abuse report. (pop-up) The report draws on 37 interviews with Eritreans by Human Rights Watch and 22 by a nongovernmental organization in Egypt. The people interviewed said they had been abused for weeks or even months, either near the town of Kassala in eastern Sudan or near the town of Arish in northeastern Sinai, near Egypt’s border with Israel.
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