Tuesday, August 22, 2006

[South Africa / Somalia] Refugees are being 'killed like dogs' / Cape Times, 22 Aug 2006

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Karen Breytenbach
"As two more Somali shopkeepers in Khayelitsha were gunned down by robbers on Sunday, many in the Somali refugee community feel increasingly fearful about being "killed like dogs" by local thugs, while the government and the United Nations do little to help them. While neither the police nor the Department of Home Affairs could say how many have been killed in the province in the past month, local Somalis estimate the death toll to be between 14 and 25 in the Cape metropole alone. A spokesperson for the community, from Langa, who asked not to be named, said he counted 25 murders in the province during the past month." [Country Profiles]