South Africa: Refugee Leader Accused of Misleading Protesters

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A delegation trying to help refugees who have decamped from the UNHCR offices to a church in Cape Town has accused a refugee leader with a violent streak of assault and deceiving the protesters.

Jean-Pierre "JP" Balous is a confident man, yet trailed by violence. Most recently he has been accused of trying to gouge out the eyes of a man of the cloth at the Central Methodist Church in Cape Town.

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