Africans 'under siege' in Moscow

[chad187]

Nearly 60% of black and African people living in Russia's capital Moscow have been physically assaulted in racially motivated attacks, says a new study.

Africans working or studying in the city live in constant fear of attack, according to the report by the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy.

A quarter of 200 people surveyed said they had been assaulted more than once. Some 80% had been verbally abused.

But the number of assaults was down from the MPC's last survey in 2002.

The report's clear conclusion was that Africans living in Russia exist in a state of virtual siege, says the BBC's Rupert Wingfield Hayes in Moscow.

Extreme violence

Many of the African respondents said they:

* Avoided using the Moscow metro
* Were also careful to avoid crowded public places
* Did not go out on Russian national holidays or on days when there were football matches

Many of the attacks on Africans were pre-meditated and extremely violent, the report found.

One Nigerian migrant interviewed by the BBC had been repeatedly stabbed in the back and then shot.

Another man said his attacker had attempted to remove his scalp.

Officially there are some 10,000 Africans living in Moscow, but far more are believed to live there illegally - many as economic migrants.

The Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy is an English-speaking interdenominational Christian congregation that has ministered to Moscow's foreign community since 1962.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8230158.stm

Wow that sounds pretty horrible i cant imagine being forced to live like that

 

[TheJ0K3R]

Those days,Russia is itching..Someone has to stop their trouble..xD

 

[RedRalph]

Its a disgrace.

 

[emzie]

And you are lynching Negroes!

 

[mrt144]

And you are lynching Negroes!

Those Russians are the epitome of egalitarian.

 

[Miles Teg]

Bah, obvious anti-Russian propaganda. There are no beatings in the Motherland.

 

[Dachs]

And you are lynching Negroes!

/thread

 

[kulade]

See if the USSR were still around, not only would no one ever get raped by the army, but no one would be a victim of rasism. Rasism is after an expectable result of kkkapitali$m; Russia should go back to being a egalitarian worker's paradise.

 

[cubsfan6506]

Why would someone illegally immigrat ot russia.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Why would someone illegally immigrat ot russia.

The same reason they illegally immigrate to the States.

 

[bigdog5994]

Why would someone illegally immigrat ot russia.

well it is better than some countries in Africa

 

[REDY]

I miss more how it should be Africans. Illegaly moving from Africa to Russia means lot of travelling and bribing.

 

[RedRalph]

well it is better than some countries in Africa

Actually Russia is the second biggest recipient of immigrants on Earth

 

[mrt144]

Actually Russia is the second biggest recipient of immigrants on Earth

which puts their population loss in even more context.

 

[Yeekim]

I miss more how it should be Africans. Illegaly moving from Africa to Russia means lot of travelling and bribing.

Indeed. If I was an African, Russia would probably be among bottom 5 in my "list of places where to move".

 

[Rossiya]

If you were African, why on Earth would you move to one of the most homophobic countries in the world?

 

[bigdog5994]

If you were African, why on Earth would you move to one of the most homophobic countries in the world?

what

 

[Yeekim]

If you were African, why on Earth would you move to one of the most homophobic countries in the world?

Did you possibly mean xenophobic?

 

[cubsfan6506]

No most africans are probaly gay. Seeing how as many africans have high aids rates, and gays also have high aids rates.

 

[Flying Pig]

I've just had a fight in another thread about this - correlation does not mean causation.