‚South Sudanese in Israel no longer refugees‘

25.03.2012                      02.Nissan. 5772

Flüchtlinge:

'South Sudanese in Israel no longer refugees'

South Sudanese child slave turned refugee turned Israel advocate and Coney Island lifeguard says South Sudanese are no longer refugees, but should be given more time to return home.

Now that they have their own state, South Sudanese can no longer be considered refugees and should prepare for return to their country in the near future, a prominent South Sudanese activist and refugee said on Thursday.
Visiting Israel on what he called a privately funded mission to “rescue the situation” that faces Southern Sudanese following a government decision in late January to begin deporting them starting April 1, Simon Deng described the changes that independence has brought to the South Sudanese diaspora, during an interview Thursday in a small hotel off Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv….