Deafening Silence

Imagine for a moment if you will, the coverage this story would get by the world's media if it were Israeli troops committing this crime rather than Egyptian ones.

Egyptian soldiers killed four Sudanese refugees near the Egypt-Israel border overnight Wednesday in full view of IDF troops, a shaken-sounding IDF soldier said in an interview with Channel 10, Thursday evening.

The Egyptian troops shot and killed two, wounding a third. When the last tried to climb into Israel, the Egyptians pulled him out of the arms of Israeli soldiers trying to help him and dragged him away.

The Egyptians then carried the man several meters away from the border fence, and proceeded to beat him and another wounded refugee to death with stones and clubs.

“What happened there yesterday was a lynch. These are not men, they’re animals. They killed him without even using firearms,” the soldier said. “We just heard screams of pain and the sounds of beatings. Then the screams stopped.”

And remember that Egypt receives millions of dollars from the US government.