I'm talking here about Sudan... It's very troubling to see the problem spread to a supposedly moderate Arabic nation in Africa - Egypt.

A reporter for the Associated Press who witnessed police attacking the refugees with truncheons said that in many cases they continued to beat the protesters even as they were being dragged away.

The reporter also saw two adults and a young girl, apparently three or four years old, being carried away unconscious. A medical worker in an ambulance said the girl was dead.

One protester being dragged away by two policemen was clubbed with a tree branch about the size of a man's arm by a third officer.

Egypt's interior ministry blamed the violence on the protesters. "Attempts were made to persuade them to disperse, but to no avail," the ministry said in a statement. "The migrants' leaders resorted to incitement and attacks against the police."

Officials said 20 protesters died and a ministry statement said 50 more were injured, "mostly elderly and children". The statement said 75 police were also injured. According to the ministry, the casualties among protesters resulted from a stampede. The AP reporter saw no stampede but said the protesters could not flee because the camp was completely encircled by police.

"Protesters could be seen fighting back with long sticks that appeared to be supports for makeshift tents," the reporter wrote.

Officials at the South Centre, a Sudanese human rights monitoring group, said 1,280 protesters were put into buses and taken to three camps outside Cairo.

This treatment is quite at odds with Muslim hospitality laws...

It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards East or West;
But it is righteousness to believe in Allah, and in the Last Day,
And in the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers;
To spend of your substance out of your love for him,
For your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer,
Nor transgressing due limits, then he is guiltless,
For Allah is Oft-forgiving, most Merciful. - SURAH 2

My first thought reading this was that Egypt is acting as Italy to the Janjaweed's Germany.

And, so far, nobody seems to care.