These incidents are becoming increasingly targeted against UNHCR staff. We cannot work in this atmosphere. |
They were quickly surrounded by a mob of refugees, of thugs, of militias -- bearing machetes, holding stones, swinging sticks in the air. They were knocked to the ground, beaten up. One of them was thrown into a rice paddy and had his head repeatedly forced under the water. |
This is not the first time UNHCR workers have been singled out by these militia groups. (But) this is the worst attack on humanitarian workers so far. |