The Mustapha Mahmoud Park Massacre denotes a 2005 incident in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

, in which dozens of Sudanese asylum seekers were killed. The civil wars in Sudan that have been taking place on and off since 1955, the subsequent destabilization and economic collapse caused by the country's infrastructure and economy, and the fighting in Darfur (2003), forced millions of Sudanese civilians to flee their homes and cities. Many of them arrived in Egypt, the neighboring country. In October 2005, about 2,000 Sudanese people camped outside Mustafa Mahmoud square,

Mohandessin Mohandiseen ( ' , "The Engineers"), is a major 1940s sub-division project originally named Madinat al-Awqaf, and made up most of the Wasat (middle) district in the city of Giza, before being divided in 1997 into the districts of Agouza (cove ...

– an upper middle class suburb where the UN

High Commissioner for Refugees The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration ...

(UNHCR) has an office – protesting conditions in Egypt and seeking to be resettled in another country. After three months, Egyptian security forces who came to evacuate the camp, opened fire on the crowd, killing dozens of people and detaining hundreds. The result, according to the Egyptian government official statement: 25 Sudanese people killed and 169 wounded. Unofficially, however, 134 were killed and over 400 wounded. Following the massacre, many refugees felt they were no longer safe in Egypt, which led them to seek shelter in Israel.Sabar, Galia and Tsurkov, Elizabeth. “Israel’s Policies toward Asylum-Seekers: 2002-2014.” Istituto Affari Internazionali, IAI working paper 15 (2015).Print.

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