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First achievement of the new cabinet: A massacre of
Sudanese Refugees in Mostafa Mahmoud Square

El Nadim Center
How many have to die and how much blood should be spilt before we take to the streets and not leave before the resignation of the butcher of the Egyptian Ministry of health Minister Habib El Adly and brining him and those who act upon his orders to justice?

In the early hours of today, Friday the 30th of December 2005, Egyptian security forces carried out a massacre in every sense of the word resulting in the criminal and crazy murder of no less than 10 refugees according to official sources and more than 30 refugees according to sources from among the refugees.

The massacre took place at a time of the Christmas and New Year holidays and as known for Egyptian police, during the early hours of the day. Nothing stopped the police: neither the cold not the presence of women, children or elderly. Friends living on the 11th floor of a nearby building were drawn to the windows by the screams of women and children.

Egyptian security forces were not stopped by the TV cameras or the press present in the location. They dragged the refugees across the street, pulled women from their hair and pushed the elderly carrying newborn babies. The Egyptian Ministry of Interior did not suffice to bring its trucks and tanks but mobilized a long line of public transportation busses in a flagrant cooperation between the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of transportation in turning those buses into torture cells where refugees were stuffed like sheep to be transferred to central security force camps in different locations in Egypt in addition to taking some of them to State security intelligence offices. Many of those taken to the camps suffer fractures and injuries and lack any medical help, according to the information we received from a refugee who managed to make a fast phone call from his mobile before it was totally disconnected indicating that it was taken away from him.

Thos events taking place in the middle of Mohandesin in front of Mostafa Mahmoud mosque is the only way known to the Egyptian Ministry of Interior to respond to any peaceful protest: beating and dragging and killing outside the law, detention and deportation to illegal detention places. The protest of the Sudanese refugees lasted for three months during which they endured the cold, hunger, humiliation and death of 10 of them after despairing the silence of UNHCR and its non commitment to its mandate. For years they have suffered the persecution of the Egyptian police and spending long night in Egyptian police stations with no attention paid to their legitimate demands. They protested to make their voices heard and to demand their rights from the UN organization whose mandate it is to protect them and the host country which had committed itself to provide them with their rights.
  • We demand the immediate release of the Sudanese refugees who would not have come to Egypt is Egypt did not host the UNHCR.
  • We demand the immediate resignation of Minister of Interior Habib el Adly whose hands are soiled by the blood of Egyptians and Sudanese as a result of the massive police violence, killing outside the law, torture and detention in state security intelligence headquarters.
  • We call upon all human rights organizations and Egyptian democratic parties and groups to condemn the performance of the Minister of Interior and to intervene for the release of Sudanese refugees in Egyptian security camps.
  • We call upon the High commissioner of human rights to investigate the crimes of murder and violence committed by the Egyptian Minister of Interior in obvious collaboration with UNHCR Cairo 30 December 2005
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