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+ REFUGEES Young Adults and Students | Parish Center | Task Force on Racial Attack and Harassment
On 22 September an Ethiopian was attacked from behind by a dozen or more skinheads at metro station Kitai-gorod. They attempted to throw him onto the subway tracks. He resisted, and they threw him down the stairs onto the platform. He sustained a broken arm, as well as eye and facial injuries. On 6 September the TNT television news program "Segonichko" did a report on racial attacks in Moscow. Following the report, the program organized a call-in poll, posing the question, "Do you think the Moscow police sympathizes with racists?" There were three choices for answering: yes, no and "I sympathize with racists myself." The final tally was 175, 72, 293. While such a poll has no scientific value, it does indicate that many Muscovites think racist attitudes are socially acceptable. On 5 September, Mr. Paul Massa Mayoni, an asylum seeker from Angola, died of injuries he sustained when a group of Russian teenagers attacked him with baseball bats and broken bottles. Mr. Massa Mayoni was standing with a group of other Angolans steps away from the UNHCR's Refugee Reception Centre when the attack occurred. As the representative of the UNHCR in Russia told the Moscow Times (4 September 2001), "The only reason they were attacked was that they were Africans." A police investigation is proceeding. On 2 September, a group of three Ethiopian refugees was attacked by young men in Podolsk, just outside of Moscow. The refugees had traveled to Podolsk on that Sunday afternoon to visit a friend. A group of about twenty young men attacked them from behind using their fists, chains and a knife. While one of the Ethiopian men escaped unscathed, the other received serious bruises to his ribs, a concussion, and a slash across the face. His wife was also punched and sustained bruises. On 28 August, a group of ten young people attacked a Sierra Leonean graduate student on a tram near Park Dubki. The student received a concussion and facial scrapes and bruises. On 11 August, about twenty skinheads attacked a student from Guinea-Conakry at metro station Taganskaya. He sustained head injuries. |
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