Palestine Jews interned in the Eritrean detention camp, where two prisoners were killed last month in a disturbance, have refused to appear before a British military commission inquiring into the shootings, declaring that “our lives are endangered whenever we appear in the yard,” it was learned here today.
Further details of the disturbance at the camp revealed that Sudanese troops fired upon the prisoners without provocation and without warning. Although English personnel attempted to administer first aid to the wounded, they were not able to do so, because of the tremendous confusion caused by the indiscriminate shooting.
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