Refugees Deported from South Africa

Deon de Lange and SAPA report from South Africa:

Amnesty International has slammed the government for “forcibly” removing more than 700 refugees and asylum-seekers from the Glenanda displacement camp near Johannesburg this week.

The human rights group has also called for a full investigation into the shootings that took place at the camp in which some 23 people were said to have been injured. Violence broke out at the camp when police arrived to transfer unregistered refugees to the Lindela Repatriation Centre from where they were due to be transported back to their countries of origin.

But on Thursday the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said the government should not be blamed for de-taining the undocumented refugees as it had done its best to provide protection and assistance to the victims of the xenophobic attacks. Click here and here for the rest of the story.

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