daghela al negro(ski)

[dave4mame]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8230158.stm

Nearly 60% of black and African people living in Russia's capital Moscow have been physically assaulted in racially motivated attacks, says a new study.

Africans working or studying in the city live in constant fear of attack, according to the report by the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy.

A quarter of 200 people surveyed said they had been assaulted more than once. Some 80% had been verbally abused.

But the number of assaults was down from the MPC's last survey in 2002.

The report's clear conclusion was that Africans living in Russia exist in a state of virtual siege, says the BBC's Rupert Wingfield Hayes in Moscow.

Extreme violence

Many of the African respondents said they:

Avoided using the Moscow metro
Were also careful to avoid crowded public places
Did not go out on Russian national holidays or on days when there were football matches
Many of the attacks on Africans were pre-meditated and extremely violent, the report found.

One Nigerian migrant interviewed by the BBC had been repeatedly stabbed in the back and then shot.

Another man said his attacker had attempted to remove his scalp.

Officially there are some 10,000 Africans living in Moscow, but far more are believed to live there illegally - many as economic migrants.

The Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy is an English-speaking interdenominational Christian congregation that has ministered to Moscow's foreign community since 1962.



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Read some of your comments about this story:

As a foreigner you will never feel safe in this country.
Shairaz, St. Petersburg, Russia

I'm Asian, not black, but that was one of the main reasons why I left Moscow years ago. I did hear and see the violent assaults on just any black people in Moscow, and our school actually told all the black students not to come in for two weeks around Hitler's birthday for feared attacks. I've lived in many different parts of the world but Moscow certainly was the worst one in that respect. Such a shame.
B., Moscow, Russia

It is dangerous to use Moscow tube for all kinds of minorities, not only for Africans. Moscow hooligans point out different targets from the crowd. While visiting Moscow I try to look alike typical muscovite to avoid attention attraction. If you are in a crowd it's safe to use the tube and any other public areas.
Kirill, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

However sad it is, I have to admit that these facts are true. We are in 21st century, but still attitude towards non Russian people here in Moscow remains the same. Foreigners at least are treated with suspicion; at most they are attacked, bullied. I don't see that many Africans on the streets, you can hardly find them in public places. Even though I know that many study in Moscow. When you see Africans in Moscow, they always go in large groups of four or five people, never alone. Seeing a black person here is still exotic. Ordinary people just stare at them, but there are groups of youngsters, who think that Africans should not be here. Listening to all of this horrible stories on radio, TV about Africans being attacked, I am surprised why there are any who choose to come to Moscow.
Svetlana, Moscow, Russia

For me it comes down to one thing, these people are living in the past. We welcome every foreigner including Europeans back home. The only way we can improve our own communities, we come and learn, then take back our experiences back home. Unless someone realises this, tough time are ahead of us.
O., Moscow, Russia

Really? I lived in Moscow for four years and never once witnessed the subject of the report. It was something reported in the foreign press which mysteriously I and my colleagues never saw. Like most everything else reported on Russia, it was not true. However, I have seen rampant and very unpleasant prejudice twice in my life once in Nova Scotia and once in Salisbury in Wiltshire.
Michael Hockney, Vancouver, Canada

While I didn't live in Moscow, I did live in St. Petersburg for the winter of 2005 on a study abroad trip. Even then, the racial violence was startling... people were being attacked on the streets just for the colour of their skin. The anti-caucasus sentiment as spread to a nationalistic furore against any foreigners, students included. There was a contingent of African students at the university where I studied, and they all lived in the dormitory in the same building as the classes. They all travelled together if they had to go anywhere, while I felt fine walking alone in the dark winter days. I felt so guilty for feeling safe inside my white skin, and so horrified that innocents were being attacked just because they were there. This is a problem that the West has roundly ignored for too many years.
Trista, Virginia Beach, VA, USA


apperò....

[ilguercio]

Tutto il mondo è paese?

[lowenz]

Daghela al NIGHER

[plutus]

ho un amico negro che ha abitato per diversi anni a Mosca. In metro ancora non si siede perché ha paura di essere accoltellato.

[dave4mame]

Originariamente inviato da lowenz

Daghela al NIGHER

io sapevo negher.
ma negherosky mi sembrava un cocktail...

[first register]

The anti-caucasus sentiment as spread to a nationalistic furore against any foreigners, students included.

...ma guarda un pò...

[Wee-Max]

fatti un giro in alabama e più o meno troverai la stessa gente

[ilguercio]

Originariamente inviato da Wee-Max

fatti un giro in alabama e più o meno troverai la stessa gente

Ah beh,in effetti...

[Titanium555]

ecco perchè putin è cosi amico di silvio e perchè anche se non sono fascista e di destra il comunismo a volte mi fà davvero pena..........quante favole.....

[CYRANO]

ma che ci va a fare un nero in russia ?
cioe' minghia passa dalla padella alla brace praticamente...


C;a;.,z;.,a;,z

[Titanium555]

Originariamente inviato da CYRANO

ma che ci va a fare un nero in russia ?
cioe' minghia passa dalla padella alla brace praticamente...


C;a;.,z;.,a;,z

ma per lavoro altrimenti che ci farebbero in italia............la televisione miete vittime in tutto il mondo......

[Special]

Originariamente inviato da CYRANO

ma che ci va a fare un nero in russia ?
cioe' minghia passa dalla padella alla brace praticamente...


C;a;.,z;.,a;,z

[CYRANO]

Originariamente inviato da Special

ah ecco... se era un rom invece era un white russian ?




C;,a;z;.a

[ConteZero]

Il blocco orientale è stato BLINDATO per oltre cinquant'anni, che ci sia questo genere di attitudine è normale.
Strano che le forze dell'ordine (che da quelle parti dovrebbero andare abbastanza per le spicce) non abbiano messo un freno a questo genere di cosa "a modo loro"...

[CYRANO]

Originariamente inviato da ConteZero

Il blocco orientale è stato BLINDATO per oltre cinquant'anni, che ci sia questo genere di attitudine è normale.
Strano che le forze dell'ordine (che da quelle parti dovrebbero andare abbastanza per le spicce) non abbiano messo un freno a questo genere di cosa "a modo loro"...

forse perche' i puotti la pensano allo stesso modo ?


c;,a;,z;,a

[plutus]

Originariamente inviato da CYRANO

ma che ci va a fare un nero in russia ?
cioe' minghia passa dalla padella alla brace praticamente...

C;a;.,z;.,a;,z

quello che ho conosciuto era li per motivi di studio (la madre russia per certi paesi resta ancora un riferimento)

Originariamente inviato da ConteZero

Il blocco orientale è stato BLINDATO per oltre cinquant'anni, che ci sia questo genere di attitudine è normale.
Strano che le forze dell'ordine (che da quelle parti dovrebbero andare abbastanza per le spicce) non abbiano messo un freno a questo genere di cosa "a modo loro"...

hai una minima idea di cosa sia la polizia in russia?

[ConteZero]

Originariamente inviato da plutus

hai una minima idea di cosa sia la polizia in russia?

Posso immaginarmelo, per questo penso che se qualcuno in alto gli dicesse "questo razzismo deve finire" non avrebbero particolari problemi a farlo finire da un giorno all'altro.