Malawi Police arrest 169 Ethiopians
Malawi Police at Lumbadzi in Lilongwe have arrested 169 Ethiopian refugees who were attempting to escape from Dzaleka refugee camp in Dowa.
This is the fourth time in three months police have arrested such a huge number of Ethiopians trying to flee the country using unlawful means. Most of these Ethiopians enter the country using unchartered routes in Northern districts of Malawi.
Lumbadzi Police Officer-in-Charge Effie Sato said the Ethiopians were arrested on Tuesday after getting a tip from the public who became suspicious with huge group of strange people.
“The refugees were taking a rest at a Chinese shop and some people got fishy with them and reported to our office,” said the Lumbadzi police boss.
The refugees are said to have carried maize and water and were reportedly heading for Zimbabwe.
“We are currently facilitating to take them back to the camp. We arrested them because they had no travel documents,” said the Officer-in-Charge.
According to Sato, one of the refugees, who was the only one who could communicate in English, said they decided to flee the camp because they are encountering myriad hitches at the camp like poor diet and sanitation.
The refugee also explained that five of their countrymen have died this year due to poor diet and healthy facilities and were buried right there.
Over 600 Ethiopian Refugees have been arrested this year alone for attempting to escape the camp for greener pastures in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Two weeks ago, group and village headmen surrounding Dzaleka Refugee camp asked government to urgently find means of instilling discipline among the Ethiopian asylum seekers.
The development came after the foreigners invaded Mengwe village in the area of T/A Chikukula where they stole maize while the owners were busy attending a funeral.
Group Village Headman Mengwe warned that if government does not do anything they would take law into their own hands because they were tired with the rotten behaviour of the Ethiopians.
The Ethiopians are said to be fighting indigenous Malawians, raping girls and old women and stealing from the surrounding villages, among others.
“We want government to take action urgently because we have been patient enough with these foreigners and the situation is now getting out of hand.
“People are living in fear in their own country because the Ethiopians are not only invading the villages during the day but also night, a situation that poses danger to their lives and property. If government is not assisting us we have the means to deal with the situation ourselves,” said the angry village, whose area is well known for gule wankulu cult.
There are currently over 8000 asylum seekers at Dzaleka camp from various countries like Somalia, Burundi, DRC, Rwanda, Djibouti but the Ethiopians are said to be the most nuisance.
Tagged with: Dzaleka, Ethiopians
THESE ARE FELLOW BEINGS WHO ARE DESPERATE. THEY ARE BEHAVING IN THIS WAY BECAUSE OF DESPERATION. THE BEST WAY IS TO CONTACT THEIR GOVERNMENTS AND MAKE ARRANGEMENTS WITH THEM.
IT WOULD NOT BE GOOD TO LET THE VILLAGERS TAKE THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS.
MORE OVER ALL AFRICANS HAVE A COMMON HERITAGE. THESE ETHIOPIANS ARE OUR BROTHERS. YOU DO NOT KILL YOUR BROTHER SIMPLY BECAUSE HE STEALS FROM OTHER PEOPLE…NO…YOU TRY TO REASON WITH HIM. LET THESE PEOPLE ELECT LEADERS AMONGST THEMSELVES WHO WILL TALK TO THE GOVERNMENT IN MALAWI. IT WILL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THESE LEADERS TO UNSURE GOOD BEHAVIOR.
THANKS A LOT.
A amene ine ndakhala ndikudya nandolo weeek woo koma these guys they taking atleast a better food, so they need to robber into our houses aa Malawi ….tinatchuka ndikuti ndife a ulemu ulemu wathuwo utiphetsa . Just imagine what happens to our Malawians in southern Africa?
Let them go where-ever and whenever they want to go. Boma likukakamira ma-refugees yet in some countries like South Africa refugees and other foreigners – black foreigners to be precise, are not wanted at all. They are treated like some pestilence – mlili that befell Egyptians nthawi ya Mose.
Asiyeni apite. The government should consider that as a good thing (ku South Africa ma-refugees do not want to leave despite the extreme levels of xenophobia)so that it can take better care of its own.
Malawians by and large are not a xenophobic bunch but the action or lack of it on the part of the government is indirectly planting seeds of xenophobia.
is so sad while many Malawians Uk and SOUTH AFRICA r derpoted like nobody business,i do no why Malawian government is clinging to this pipo ,i can sure you that if u elect me in pm election in next gl iwill take seriously to push out this pipo to various country
Let me concur with Mlauli Mbona, inu amfumu kill these bastards ndi mikondo or tell police to shoot these mbuzi, mpaka kugwilira atsikana ndiye aonjezansotu, kuba chimanga ndizinazotero agalunso amenewa eti? Ndangotalikira ndikanawa phwasula!! inu a polisi osawakakamira asiyeni azipita amenewa, sikuti anabwera ndi ma travelling documents let them go also without the documents. Muwapangira kapena madocumentswo? aaaaaahhh!!!
Ndapita mfana wozitsata!
I m a proud Ethiopian. You all are ignorant and dont know nothing about Ethiopians. Is the country Malawi or Zimbabwe better than us?…….Dont be misled……Any Ethiopian who u see in any part of the southern Africa is trying to get out of Africa to the Europe or to here ….. the USA. That is all. …Where ever you go Africa is the same….. POOR,..DARK SKINNED, UNCIVILIZED AND BACKWARD in every term of it. So dont brag about your poor good-for-nothing country you all. Just leave them alone and let them go. They wouldn’t spend a night in your country(for What?)……And bear in mind you can distinguish an Ethiopian easily with the color of his skin and his/her beauty than the rest of you and Africa…..Long live Ethiopia and Ethiopians.
This comment is outrageous, a comment I could not hold my peace to express outrage and I know I do so on behalf of majority of Malwians. Look…if passage to the western world is all you are after, why don’t you just get passage to some northern part of African country or the East africa…you are neighbours after all, right? Leave peaceful my and our Malawi alone. Malawians are the most peaceful people the world is ever to know, the most patient etc and you have experienced that, so shut up!!! Meanwhile don’t you be taking their patience and goodness for stupidity!!!!As for beauty and colour of your skin or your women folk…I won’t waste my energy on that you obviously uneducated self absorbed ignorant person. My God will deal with that. Oh, if there are some foks of your kind in Malawi, I hope they get to know that they are not welcome there with a mentality like this…can you tell them to leave please, and like today???
If ethiopians have got moneys why can’t they use addis ababa airport to go wherever they think they will better there miserable lives??We have never heard anything decent from Ethiopia than clinging to the israelites that they are jews from cooked stories.Come to Malawi you will find them miserably roaming around our villages.Come and pick up your brothers in your rotten filthy ethiopian airlines.Shame on you are not even proud of your colour..you think you will be accepted by a whiteman because of your tan skinned…useless ethiopian dying miserably of hunger.I have been to ethiopia and really a horrible dirty place..get real if you malawians have never been your country.Stop lying here.
Perhaps if you look at the history of the two countries, you might have a softer heart, fellow country men. Take a look at these pictures here and see if you have any change of heart:
http://www.personenencyclopedie.info/K/Kal/KAMUZU%20BANDA,%20Ngwazi%20Hastings,%20Dr.
Skin color(colour) word has no meaning in todays world. What counts is the brain! Just, may be, the so called light skinned still have a place in some other African nations! WE TO NOT SEE SKIN AS AN ISSUE!!
Dude …… it is all about skin color and looks………….if you r good looking and close to a white tone regarding your skin color the world is a better place for you…. come and see to the western world how the real dark skinned african guys and girls (from your country may be) suffer from loneliness. even the african american wouldnt wanna be with them. and talk to african american and hear what they say about ethiopian and how they wanna be with us!!!
There is no war in Ethiopia now..azipita basi