An African doctor was stabbed in the stomach on the street in a town near Moscow for asking to be addressed by his name instead of a racial term, in one of many accounts of racially motivated violence against migrants in Russia, a rights activist said.
The eye surgeon from the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo once fled his country for Russia in search of peace, but the level of racism has prompted him to seek refuge in a monastery, human rights activist Katya Bermant of Children's Hearts charitable foundation said Tuesday on her Facebook page.
The man, identified by his first name Francis, left DR Congo for Russia after militants came to his hospital and "gave orders to kill the wounded," Bermant said.
See art. in: Racism in Moscow?
INC News, 10/12/2014 - MoscowTimes
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