Russia and Ukraine: anger at "racist media coverage against the Arabs" and allegations of discrimination against non -Ukrainians at the border

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the country's residents have been trying to leave alive.In the midst of these attempts, Arabs, Indians and Africans spoke about their exposure to racist practices at the border.

This coincides with Western media coverage of the war and the humanitarian crisis that resulted from it, in which some journalists and guests expressed their "shock" to see what they used to happen in the Middle East and North Africa that happens to Europeans "similar to them".The matter sparked anger not only between the Arabs, but around the world.

"Priority for Ukrainians"

Crafts of people at the Ukrainian border trying to escape from the country that is exposed to a Russian invasion that increases violent and expanded every day.

Very large numbers of the country's residents try to leave as soon as possible.What makes it complicated and needs a lot of time, effort, capabilities and coordination between countries.

This is on the assumption of ensuring the possibility of leaving all of these to the countries adjacent to Ukraine: Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, which borders Ukraine from the West, Moldova and Romania, which borders the country from the southwest.

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While these people are accumulated at the border, chaos often prevails, and confrontations arise between the forces that guard the border and the civilians clinging to the hope of leaving the country alive.

In the midst of this, reports of people of different nationalities, non -Ukrainians, were exposed to discrimination.

Plu posts and videos of Arabs, Africans, Indians, and others have spread that they were prevented from crossing and were told that "the priority for the Ukrainians.".

While we cannot check all these clips, the BBC spoke to a number of people at the border waiting for their role in crossing.

They quoted testimonies that they were exposed to rough treatment and racist practices.

BBC contacted the Polish border forces, who said that Poland welcomes all the fleeing conflict in Ukraine, regardless of their nationalities..

BBC also tried to contact the Ukrainian border guards, but it did not receive a response.

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Among the videos that have spread on social media, a clip showing a young man who says video traders is Moroccan, and it appears from his dialect that he is really, carrying a knife in his hand while standing at a train door and tries to ensure the rise of some people.

The video spread with comments, some of which say that the young man did so, so that he and a group of Moroccans can climb to the train heading towards Slovakia.

Others say that he was helping the Arabs to climb, and some say that he enabled Arabs and Africans from the independence of the train after they were prevented from ascending on the pretext that "the priority for the Ukrainians.".

The BBC was unable to verify the video and the allegations associated with it.But the clip, which spread accompanied by some comments built by what he did, sparked a discussion.

What appears in the video away from the circumstances surrounding him, is a person who raises a weapon in the face of people to threaten and implement his demand.Which is a crime law.

But some commentators on the video found an excuse for him in what he did, and he is the one who tries to escape death, especially after it spread about preventing non -Ukrainians from leaving.

Some of them say that nothing justifies the intimidation of people and their threat, whatever the situation, so what about their condition are and they are wig of their country that is exposed to a war..

The length of the clip does not exceed a few seconds, and everyone who shows civilians try to ride the train.

Western media coverage

"We are not talking here about Syrians, Iraqis, or others from the Middle East and North Africa. We are talking about Europeans who resemble us.".

This sentence, or the like, as an expression in the same sense, was repeated through large international media, from guests and journalists, in many languages.

As if wars, death, displacement and displacement are normal, it does not worry if it happens in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, but it becomes unreasonable and unacceptable if it occurs in European countries for citizens with blond hair and colored eyes.

Some of those who used this expression, or the like in covering the war and the humanitarian crisis resulting from it in Ukraine, apologized and some of them overlooked that.

They later said that what they mean is that they are used to seeing these scenes in the Middle East region because of the instability and conflicts they are witnessing.

But their intention does not negate the meaning of what they say.It does not deny that it raised a state of anger among the Arabs, and some have reached a lot of comments in which a lot of healing and welcoming what is happening "until others taste what they tasted." The result was a counter -racist..

What has been circulated in this topic is what the American CBS News, Charlie Dagata said that Ukraine "with all respect is not a place like Iraq or Afghanistan, in which the conflict has been raging for decades, this is a relatively civilized and relatively European city...Where you do not expect or wish this to happen..

Diagoa, who then said that he picked his phrases with caution, returned to apologize on the air after a violent attack he was subjected to.

The condemnation that Daghata's speech was received, and the similar talk, was not limited to those who felt racism practiced against them with this thought, but also angered among those who follow the matter everywhere around the world.

Diagata said, "He regretted the way in which he spoke and regret".He said, "What he wanted to communicate to people is that Ukraine has not seen a war of this size in the past years, unlike what countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan witnessed.".

The BBC news broadcaster, Ross Atkins, was also a severe attack after he exceeded a comment by a Ukrainian guest in which he said that he was "sad to see European eggs with blue eyes killing..But Atkins did not object to this expression and the guest did not unite by saying that the killing was killed, whatever the nationality and color of the victim.

Atkins later published a series of tweets in which he thanked him from his Sabla and who said that he had to have no comment like this without a reaction from him, and said that "he was trying to control the guest's emotion and boycott him properly, and he neglected to stand at that comment.".

As for the English service for Al -Jazeera, she published an apology on her Twitter account after her broadcaster, Peter Dobby, said in a question to the guest about those trying to flee the war in Ukraine that "what raises oppression when you look at them and their clothes.These are the people of a prosperous middle class and not refugees trying to escape from areas in the Middle East that are still witnessing a war and not people trying to get out of areas in North Africa.These people seem like any European family that may live next to them..

The channel described the words of its broadcaster, "In the unfair comparison between the Ukrainians fleeing the war and refugees from the Middle East and North Africa region.".She said that his speech was "irresponsible and missing allergies".She apologized to the audience, saying that she was dealing with this breach of professional rules.

ATV English correspondent said in her comment, "This is not a developing country from the third world countries," and she continued with a loud voice as she tries to prevent itself from crying, "This is Europe".

The French channels also took place in their corridors about the difference between the waves of immigration from the Middle East and the migration of the European "civilized" "intellectuals" who resemble us and ride cars similar to our cars "...And other expressions that passed on the screens of channels that are seen by thousands or more inside and outside France.

Why do you surprise us racism?

Some people may ask why racism surprises us?Not new and never become anything of history.She was always present in multiple forms.

Cancellation of slavery has never mean the end of racism.Evolution and "urbanization" and higher degrees have never prevented their owners from being racists.

It may not be frankly explicit racism, but rather buried in the subconscious that goes out to the public "unintentionally", but in the end it is racist.

We are now in 2022 we are still talking about who considers his death and displacement of "normal" and who is unreasonable for them to happen and the difference between the two groups is race, nationality or color.

In 1965, the state community adopted the International Convention to End all forms of Racial Discrimination.

According to the United Nations -sponsored agreement, "the expression of" racial discrimination "is intended, i.e. discrimination, exclusion, restriction, or detail based on race, color, lineage, national or ethnic origin, and it is targeted or entails disrupting or obstructing recognition of human rights and basic freedoms or enjoyment or enjoymentIts practice is equal, in the political, economic, social, or cultural field, or in any other field of public life."

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