West African insanity is Jeff’s beat, but I had to post this—sorry Mr. Nudemann. From BBC:
A group of Liberian women refugees who have held naked protests by the roadside are to be deported from Ghana, a minister has told the BBC.
Hundreds of the women were arrested on Monday and taken away from a refugee camp in 10 buses, witnesses say. They were protesting at plans to send them home with $100 - they demand $1,000 and to be resettled in the West.Stripping naked is a traditional form of protest amongst poor and powerless women in Africa. Interior Minister Kwamena Bartels said that the Liberian war had ended. He denied it was forced repatriation. He said they had broken local laws by not informing the police of their protest.
“When women strip themselves naked and stand by a major highway, that is not a peaceful demonstration,” he told the BBC’s Network Africa programme.
Hmmm, sounds peaceful to me.
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March 18th, 2008 at 10:42 am
That’s a “get the fuck out of my country for a hundo” card. Interior Ministers are generally cool guys too, wtf?
March 18th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Tne U N and Ghanaian Conciliates should be called requesting that decent and regular food food/water rations be given these desperately hungry and penniless and dependent as well as medical help for some never-healed wounds from damage that long ago war in Liberia . Civilians there were used as de facto targets as well as shields (for what little good that did)
I just got offline with a very real and dear person who had not eaten or had good water in 2 days and cant evet get it free in her net cafe there (even though she sweeps up to afford a 1/2 hour rental)
NOTE: I have conducted interviews online and by phone of many in Africa, in diverse circumstances, and in fact have even gotten fairly deep rapport with some 419ers in Nigeria… since I can speak their slang well enough to break the ice and scam mode, if I wish to take the time to talk to them (or mess with them depending on which scam they run)
This rounding up (and very likely so much swor appears to be an ethnic cleansing (systematized murder) and yet for an unknown set of reasons, none good, tje U N is doing little to correct this problem although it relates to the UN’s own supposed program of repatriation and care, and violates protocol to do nothing.
best regards.
SG ‘
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May 14th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Beware Ghanians, our people were not fun of coming to your country for any reason,but the power greed and unforeseen characters of our politicians has brought us this disgrace of being refugees on your soil ,BUT, we are still not convinced that our mothers, sisters,wives and children should be given such humiliation and disgraceful depotation. REMEMBER,despict our war many of your people (Ghanians) are in our country without dorcument and many more squeezing themselves in inlegally in search of green pastur