Stop XeNOphobia – Justice for the victims of xenophobia in South Africa

Stop XeNOphobia – Justice for the victims of xenophobia in South Africa
Recently the number of violence and horrific act against immigrants in South Africa especially on immigrants from African nations has been off the chart. Witnesses and video footage on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube shows how much the level violence is escalated. The situation is becoming out of control.
This act of violence is happening again and again in South Africa. In short memory on May 12, 2008 a series of riots started in the township of Alexandra (in the north-eastern part of Johannesburg) when locals attacked migrants, killing two people and injuring 40 others. In that very same year, over 22 people killed in Johannesburg alone. In late May 2009, reports emerged regarding a possible resurgence of xenophobic related activity and the organizing of attacks in the Western Cape. Reports of threats and secret meetings by local businessmen surfaced reports emerged of secret meetings by local businessmen discussing 'what to do about Somali shopkeepers'. In 2010 the press carried numerous articles claiming that there would be massive planned xenophobic violence at the end of the 2010 Football World Cup. In July 2012 there were new attacks in parts of Cape Town and in Botshabelo in the Free State. On May 30, 2013, 25-year-old Abdi Nasir Mahmoud Good, was stoned to death. The violence was captured on a mobile phone and shared on the Internet. In June 2013 three Somali shopkeepers had been killed.
It seems like the very roll of African nations played for the freedom of South Africa only short lived and forgotten by South Africans. Fellow South Africans are brutally killing the very same people fought for their freedom from apartheid.
Since the beginning of April 2015, xenophobic attacks have been witnessed many in Durban and other areas in South Africa. South Africans are looting foreigner’s properties and attacking immigrants, mainly from other African countries. As of today, at least six people have been killed in Durban alone. The video footage from this barbaric act of violence documents:
1) Immigrants burnt alive. Some of them were tied their hands around car tires and they lit to burn with car tire
2) Immigrants stoned to death by violent mobs
3) Immigrants butchered and sliced alive to death
4) Immigrants attached by knives
5) Immigrants killed by firearms
6) Immigrants critically wounded
7) Immigrants robbed their housed and their small shops
8) Immigrants displaced from their homes and gathered in churches and police stations
9) Immigrant kids scattered all over due to the mob attack separating from their parents
Despite the fact that Xenophobia is the list to expect in a democratic countries South Africa, it is happening at least on a yearly bases since 1995. In this petition we urge that:
1) Immediately to stop xenophobic attack once and for all in South Africa
2) Justice to be service for the victims
3) Immediate medical attention to be provided for the injured
4) To provided proper shelter for the displaced immigrants who are sheltered in churches and police stations
5) To facilitate a third country to move the immigrants to safe destination
6) South Africa to pass a strict law to guarantee such act of violence, at any level, would not happen again
We strongly urge everybody to sign this petition so that we can alert the Governments of our South Africa, the Governments of African Nations, the African Union, International Criminal court (ICC), the United Nations, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Amnesty International, Human rights watch and other human right organizations.
Let us stand together and voice for the voiceless.