On July 24th and again on July 29th, Egyptian police did shoot dead unarmed African migrants attempting to cross that border. The victims were refugees, from Sudan and Eritrea, seeking work or political asylum in Israel. So far this year, Egypt’s shoot-to-kill policy has claimed at least 21 lives, up from 19 for all of 2009. Citing pressure from Israel to curb the migrants, and the danger of clashes with the well-armed smugglers that guide them, Egypt has shrugged off pressure from human-rights groups and from the UN to find more humane methods of stanching the traffic.
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