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1. Sudanese Refugees: Disappointment at the Border.................................................................................... 1
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Kraft, Dina Jewish Exponent [Philadelphia] 04 May 2006: 29.
ProQuest document link "I came here for liberty and freedom in Israel, but unfortunately, I found something else," relayed [Ali],
30, by phone from the Ma'asiyahu prison in Ramie. "I ask the Israeli government to help us, not to punish us,
because we have already been punished enough. We need their help." "We are lawyers, and our work is in
prisons and courts, but we do think some political pressure coming from Jews in the U.S. might tip the balance
here, and maybe change the attitudes of authorities," she said. "Finding host countries for 160 people is not an
easy task, and the fact that people are still detained while all this is happening is outrageous." There has been a
significant increase in the number of Sudanese crossing into Israel since last December, when at least 28
Sudanese protesters were killed in Egypt as police opened fire to disperse a large crowd. The protest was held
outside the UNHCR office in Cairo by Sudanese refugees demanding better conditions and treatment.
Check for full text via GET IT Headnote After a harrowing journey, they find imprisonment, instead of a respite TEL AVIV Ali and his
sister started running as hard as they could toward the mountains near their village in Darfur when it was
attacked and burned by militia forces - but his sister did not run quite fast enough, and was gunned down before
Ali's eyes. Ali - not his real name - eventually made his way to Egypt and then to Israel in search of refuge.
Instead, he has spent nine months in an Israeli prison, along with other Sudanese refugees who await a
decision on their fate by Israeli and UN. officials. About 160 refugees have come there in the past year, and
most of them are being held in prisons or army bases. A law against infiltrators from enemy countries bars them
from appealing their cases in court. A few have been released to kibbutzim, where they are under house arrest.
"I came here for liberty and freedom in Israel, but unfortunately, I found something else," relayed Ali, 30, by
phone from the Ma'asiyahu prison in Ramie. "I ask the Israeli government to help us, not to punish us, because
we have already been punished enough. We need their help." Israeli officials say that they're doing what they
can to expedite the process of interviewing the detainees and finding them homes in different countries in
coordination with the U.N. High Commission for Refugees. While Israel will not send these folks back to Sudan,
the government is also not letting them apply for asylum here, as Sudan is considered an enemy country.
Some of the asylum-seekers are from the Darfur region: others come from different parts of the African country.
A civil war in Darfur has morphed in to genocide of the region's non-Arab peoples. Hundreds of thousands have
died in the conflict, which has been led by government-sponsored militias recruited from Arab tribes who have
murdered, raped and prevented humanitarian aide from reaching victims. "Because of the terrible situation, we
have seen an influx to Israel. We are working very closely with the UNHCR in Geneva, and are trying to find a
solution whereby these people can be given refugee status. Obviously, no one wants to send them back to
where they came from, and we are looking for a third party" which could accept them, said Foreign Ministry
spokesman Mark Regev. 'ONLY CRIME IS RUNNING AWAY' Sudanese who cross into Israel from Egypt often
are caught by army patrols. The Hotline for Migrant Workers and the Refugee Rights Clinic at Tel Aviv
University recently filed a petition to the Supreme Court against the use of the infiltration law, which is being
used to hold the Sudanese asylum-seekers without due process. The organizations are also asking for the
cases of the Sudanese asylum-seekers arrested by the army to be transferred to the Interior Ministry, wherethey can have access to judicial review within 24 hours. They argue that the Sudanese should be released from
prison unless they are truly deemed a security threat or are accused of committing a crime. The New Israel
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Fund, an organization that helps support the Hotline for Migrant Workers, has also called on Israel to find
solutions for the asylum-seekers. It has placed advertisements in Israeli newspapers demanding their release,
as well as launched an online petition to pressure the government. Eliezer Yaari, director of the New Israel Fund
in Israel, said he understands that the legal situation of the Sudanese is complicated because they entered the
country illegally, but says he hopes the government will show compassion. Lastly, the organizations say the
refugees should be allowed to apply for asylum in Israel, just as refugees of other nationalities are permitted to
do. "Israel should find temporary solutions to allow them not to be in jail. Their only crime is running away from a
place they could be killed," he said. Noting the role of American Jews in pressuring the White House to confront
the situation in Darfur, attorney Anat Ben-Dor of the Refugee Rights Clinic at Tel Aviv University said she was
hopeful that American Jews might use their leverage to pressure the Israeli government about Sudanese here.
"We are lawyers, and our work is in prisons and courts, but we do think some political pressure coming from
Jews in the U.S. might tip the balance here, and maybe change the attitudes of authorities," she said. "Finding
host countries for 160 people is not an easy task, and the fact that people are still detained while all this is
happening is outrageous." UNSAFE IN EGYPT There has been a significant increase in the number of
Sudanese crossing into Israel since last December, when at least 28 Sudanese protesters were killed in Egypt
as police opened fire to disperse a large crowd. The protest was held outside the UNHCR office in Cairo by
Sudanese refugees demanding better conditions and treatment. Following that demonstration, the Egyptian
government announced that it would deport 650 Sudanese arrested during the melee who did not have
identification papers on them. Word of the planned expulsions further alarmed the refugee community. Yassin
said that he no longer felt safe in Egypt, so he decided to make the journey across the Sinai Desert into Israel.
He thought that once he arrived and told the story of how his relatives were killed and his village was destroyed,
he'd be given help. "I am looking for freedom and protection. It is hard for me to be all this time in jail," he said.
Shevy Korzen, executive director of the Hotline for Migrant Workers, said she thinks that part of the reason
Israel has detained the Sudanese under the infiltrator law is out of fear that the Jewish state could eventually be
flooded by refugees. "There are fears of a huge wave," said Korzen, referring to the Sudanese asylum-seekersin Egypt. "Israel does not want refugees. Everyone is shocked about murders, but no one wants to take
refugees." Her organization usually assists migrant workers who have lost their legal status and victims of
sexual trafficking who are detained before being deported. Volunteers visit detention facilities to help members
of these groups, and it was during these visits that they first encountered the Sudanese. Korzen added she
found it ironic that Israel was using the infiltrator law as a reason not to give the Sudanese a haven as refugees,
when it was Israel itself that promoted a section in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 requiring countries to
exempt refugees from measures they might normally take against enemy nationals. Israel championed the
provision pointing to the fact that England had given refuge to Jews from Austria and Germany during World
War II, even though technically, they were citizens of an enemy country. One of the Sudanese detainees told of being separated from his wife and his 2-month-old son during the fighting in Darfur. Now in Israel, he does not
know their fate, and wonders when - or if - he ever will. As he described the situation: "Our families have died,
others are suffering, and we don't know where they are. We are asking for help quickly." Sidebar "I CAME
HERE FOR LIBERTY AND FREEDOM IN ISRAEL, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, I FOUND SOMETHING ELSE."
Ali, 30 Sidebar A group of children in a village not far from Nyala, which has been seriously affected by violence
in southern Darfur. Many have fled, to find refuge in places like Israel. AuthorAffiliation DINA KRAFT Jewish
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Citation style: APA 6th - American Psychological Association, 6th Edition Kraft, D. (2006, May 04). Sudanese refugees: Disappointment at the border. Jewish Exponent. Retrieved fromhttp://search.proquest.com/docview/227278214?accountid=14756;http://fc9en6ys2q.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Aethnicnewswatch&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Jewish+Exponent&rft.atitle=Sudanese+Refugees%3A+Disappointment+at+the+Border&rft.au=Kraft%2C+Dina&r ft.aulast=Kraft&rft.aufirst=Dina&rft.date=2006-05-04&rft.volume=220&rft.issue=5&rft.spage=29&rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Jewish+Exponent&rft.issn=00216437
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