Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Kiev

I got this story from this link:

KIEV, Ukraine The U-S embassy in Ukraine says an African-American diplomat was severely beaten by a group of youths in Kiev.Robert Simmons was attacked Saturday night by what he described as a well-organized group of more than a dozen skinheads wearing combat boots. He serves at the U-S Agency for International Development in Uzbekistan,
Simmons tells The Associated Press the attackers didn't touch friends who were with him "but were not black." He says police did not appear until after the beating. The U-S embassy in Kiev says it will push the Ukrainian authorities to find the attackers.
Such attacks are not common in Ukraine, but a November message posted on the official embassy Web site warns Americans of "reports of racially motivated incidents against non-Caucasian foreigners."


I wonder what's up with this.

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