Stories from ground zero: South Africa Xenophobic attacks

June 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Floyd and Sally McClung share stories from what is happening on the ground in south africa here.

“There was Alvin from Angola, whose brother was killed on Friday, and who was so traumatized by the guilt of leaving the body to save himself, he could barely speak. There was Maria (not her real name) from the Congo, who was raped on Thursday, didn’t know where her teenaged son was and just wanted to be given a pair of panties and a place to sleep. There was Noor-Ali from Somalia, a very smart young man in a stylish leather jacket, who had spent years working his way up from cleaning cars for change to owning his own business, only to have absolutely everything he owned snatched away from him in minutes. They, and most of the estimated 1500 people there, were in an extreme state of shock…"

Tags: Justice · The World

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1 Rebecca // Jun 2, 2008 at 3:34 pm

The world needs a real refuge for all the refugees. I wonder what percentage of the worlds population lives in displacement. America used the be the sanctuary for oppressed peoples, but who has stepped up to the plate in recent years?