"We are killing with knives and machetes' This is the text message received yesterday by Don Mussie Zerai, president of Habeshia. A desperate cry for help reveals a background of riots in Libya: the fate of all those displaced Somalis, Eritreans, Ethiopians and Africans in general on Libya, many of whom rejected his time in Italy thanks to the Treaty of Amity signed between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Colonel Gaddafi.
Zerai, who for months following the stories of refugees from the Horn of Africa, highlights the dramatic situation in which these people, trapped in Libya, came to see the aftermath of the explosion of riots. Gaddafi in fact seems to have enlisted in the last days mercenaries from Chad and Uganda to suppress the rebellions of the square that they will, the 'decisive shove' scheme: decision that would have led the protesters in Libya, the climate of violence in collective action at this time , to fear any black person, mistaking it for a mercenary in the pay of the regime. "These people - says Zerai - continue to ask for help." As reported by the refugees who are in contact with him, in fact, Libyans in rebellion They search the homes and apartments and attacking them with machetes and knives, because, as Africans, see them as soldiers hired by Gaddafi and therefore dangerous enemies.
Others are still in Libyan prisons in various cities as a measure in the last few hours have been bombed to suppress dissent: no possibility of escape or liberation for these people, though their guilt is difficult to identify because they are been imprisoned as a result of rejections Italians who have made them illegal immigrants on Libya instead of having the right to political asylum in Italy as refugees.
"Italy - said Zerai - could offer them space in the evacuation plan already in place. We ask that this be assessed the ability to save the lives of these people, perhaps even giving them a temporary refuge in the Italian. "
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