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Friday, January 25, 1985
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These Ethiopian Jews recently arrived in Israel from the Sudan.
The Times report said that
at the Umm Rekuba camp,
some 50 miles from the border,
1,191 Ethiopian Jews died be-
tween July and November.
More than 600 died before
July. A nurse from the Sudan
Council of Churches said that
the Ethiopian Jews, after their.
trek to the border, arrived
with dysentery, malaria, de-
hydration, typhoid and other
ailments.
The Jewish Telegraphic
Agency learned indepen-
dently that the continuing,
death of Ethiopian Jews in the
Sudanese refugee camps had
been known to officials in the
United States and Israel for
several months, and served as
a catalyst in Israel's efforts to
airlift Ethiopian Jews to the
Jewish state.
President Gaafar Al-
Nimeiry of Sudan said over
the weekend that Ethiopian
Jews and all other refugees in
his country are free to leave
Sudan — provided they do not
go directly to Israel.
"If they come and tell me
they are going to Israel, - I will
not help them, because Israel
knows that I am its enemy,"
Al-Nimeiry said. "I won't help
Israel by sending them more
people. But if they go away
from here — to Europe, to the
United States, to anyplace else
— I don't care."
Nimeiry declared, "I am not
interested in keeping any ref-
ugees in my country. If all two
million left, it would be good
for Sudan. For while they are
here, we must feed and protect
them."
The Sudanese leader said,
however, that his government
was not involved in and did not
condone the Israeli airlift op-
eration. "Some two million
people have come here as refu-
gees. The government does not
know their tribes or religion.
We are not interested in that."
The Sudan president reiter-
ated his government's charge
that Ethiopia had long permit-
ted Jews to go to Israel in ex-
change for weapons to fight in-
surgents in Eritrea and Tigre
provinces. Ethiopia has denied
those allegations.
The pro-Arab weekly Jeune
Afrique_ reported this week
that Ethiopian Jews who fled
their country suffered a
"mini-inquisition" in the
nearby countries where they
sought asylum — Sudan, Djib-
outi and North Yemen. The
magazine said Ethiopian
Christian refugees were sub-
jected to the same treatment.
The Jeune Afrique corre-
spondent in Ethiopia, who vis-
ited several refugee camps . in
Sudan, reported that the
people who distributed food to
the starving escapees "shared
out the supplies according to
the recipients' origins. The
amount handed out to Mos-
lem, Jewish and Christian
refugees was different" de-
spite the claim by the
Sudanese Commission for
Refugees that all refugees are
treated alike.
Trans European Airways
(TEA), the Belgian charter
company that airlifted about
7,000 Ethiopian Jews to Is-
rael, is now facing an Arab
boycott and possible blacklist-
ing by the Arab League.
The airlift carried the refu-
gees from Khartoum, Sudan to
Tel Aviv via Brussels. Dip-
lomatic sources said a boycott
of the airline was recom-
mended at a meeting of the
Council of Arab Ambassadors
in Brussels this week.
The Arab League reportedly
has been asked to study TEA's
contribution to the transpor-
tation of Ethiopian Jews to Is-
rael, which the Israelis had
code-named "Operation
Moses." Sources said TEA's
founder and manager, George
Gutelman, a 51-year-old Bal-
gian Jew, was summoned to