Christmas Eve, 7:50 pm, St Petersburg - a group of youths ages 16-20 attacked three African students. Mvangi Eddi Mayna from Kenya was stabbed twice in the back with a knife, but he managed to run away, and made it to the safety of the nearby campus. Nekongo Fedelis from Namibia, 25 years of age, ran away without getting hurt at all. However, his 25 year old friend Kanhem Leon from Cameroon was stabbed in the neck, and after severe artery bleeding he died before the ambulance showed up.
Not a single foreign student went to church that Christmas night, so that foreign students from the entire city could gather for a large spontaneous demonstration. Nearly all police departments and city officials met at the crime scene and talked to the students. However, many students are not satisfied with the work that Russian police are not doing. This murder follows many other attacks based on racial hatred, which have become very popular among uneducated Russian youth in the past few years.
The graffiti above the post reads “Death to Negroes”.
Comments
Great web site Mr. Mamchur.
One racist is one racist too many.
Posted by: Andrew Waller | December 27, 2005 10:25 AM
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Posted by: Yuri Mamchur | December 27, 2005 3:38 PM
I guarantee you more white people have been killed in the USA and also European countries, almost certainly in acts of racist some basis, than have coloured people in Russia suffered the same fate at the hands of white thugs.
Does the world condemn these nations as 'backwards' or cry over the rise of racism? No.
Why, because the victims are white.
Posted by: jstar | July 16, 2006 1:45 PM