Egypt: Refugee massacre in Cairo
26.06.2006
Are you people only out to 'get' governments (The tragedy of Mustafa Mahmoud Park, Summary of report from Force Migration Review
)? The main culprit in all of this was UNHCR. It is, in my view, disastrous for refugee/government relations that only the Egyptian government gets the bad publicity when they had remained patient for threelong months. It is very well-known, certainly to UNHCR, who called for the demonstrator to be removed, that the security in Egypt is not trained for a peaceful break-up of demonstrations. Had UNHCR simply allowed other refugees to attend their offices from another direction and kept 'in business', the refugees would not have believed their sit-in to have been so successful.