Suriname sends troops to Albina Radio Netherlands Worldwide:
"The Surinamese government has sent soldiers to the restive border town of Albina in order to seal off a number of neighbourhoods.
The military is conducting house-to-house searches for goods stolen during Thursday evening's looting. The neighbourhoods have been sealed off and people are not allowed to enter or leave until searches had been completed.
Paramaribo sent soldiers in after fighting between the local Marron population and Brazilian and Chinese migrants, most of whom are searching for gold. On Thursday hundreds of people were involved in fighting after a Marron man died after an argument with a Brazilian national. At least 13 people injured and 20 foreign women say they were raped.
Tensions between the foreign gold diggers and the local population have been growing for some time but this is the worst outbreak of violence. The Marron community say migrants have bribed the police in Albina in order to break the law with impunity.
The Surinamese police have evacuated around 100 victims of the violence".
Saturday, December 26, 2009
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Você vive no Suriname? É perto de sua casa onde ocorreu o conflito? O que causou isso? Mulheres foram vítimas de violência sexual, mesmo (estupradas)?? Obrigado.
please tell me all of this is going on far, far away from where you are!!! Be safe, Chica. Much love!!!
Ilya
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