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Subject: [AfricaMatters] Cameroonians Flee Racist Violence in Libya via Chad

November 14, 2000
>
>Cameroonians Flee Racist Violence in Libya via Chad
>
>NDJAMENA (AFP) - More than 100 Cameroon nationals fleeing an
>outbreak of violence against black African workers in Libya
>arrived at Chad's Ndjamena airport from Tripoli on Tuesday.
>
>The 117 Cameroonians were taken in charge by their country's
>ambassador here, but were gathered in an airport cargo hangar
>where many were selling their modest belongings to raise cash.
>
>"The Libyans took almost all our things. That's why we're
>selling our luggage, to get a bit of cash to go back home,"
>said one of the group, a man in his 30s who said he had been
>a basketball player in the Libyan capital.
>
>Several thousand African workers have been repatriated to
>their homelands in sub-Saharan Africa since an outbreak of
>racist violence began in September, in which dozens of
>people were reported to have been attacked and killed.
>
>Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has vowed to bring to justice
>those responsible for the assaults targetting migrant black
>workers who had numbered about one million in a country of
>six million Arabs.
>
>"Libyans don't like blacks," said a woman who gave her name
>and age as Karine, 28, telling AFP she had lived in Libya
>for eight months.
>
>"We had been grouped in a camp for the past two months for
>our own safety," she said. "We weren't allowed to go out."
>
>Her compatriots were selling clothes, shoes, watches and
>diaries to Chadians on the cheap, since they had no money.
>
>A Cameroonian embassy official said that more people from
>the west African country were expected to arrive in Ndjamena
>in the next few days. Officially, 250 Cameroon nationals had
>been in Libya.
>
>Copyright (c) 2000 Agence France-Presse. All rights reserved.
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