Acute border crisis
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| Belongings of Venezuelan refugees being destroyed in the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima.- AFP |
An emergency meeting of Brazil`s president and key ministers
ends in troop deployment to the border with Venezuela, following a major
eruption of violence by locals against refugees.
by James Blears
The scenario...the small Border town of Pacaraima
numbering twelve thousand. An influx of twelve hundred Venezuelan
refugees, desperate to escape the worsening economic chaos of their floundering
homeland, precariously establishing themselves, and trying to exist in
two tent cities.
Then the catalyst which sparked simmering and welling
tensions, turning them into to a searing inferno. A local man was
attacked and severely injured, allegedly by a refugee.
The tent cities were torched, and the terrified refugees
fled back into Venezuela.
Brazilian President Michel Temer has met with the Ministers
of Defence, Security and the Foreign Secretary. A small contingent of
troops has been sent.
The Venezuelan Government is appealing to Brazil to
guarantee the safety of their citizens. Similar exoduses have already moved
into Colombia and Peru. The United Nations estimates that almost two and
a half million Venezuelans have already fled their country. The one way flow is
gathering pace, day by day.
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