A/50/476 English Page 31 collective expulsions, which, according to him, were more economical and more effective as a deterrent. H. Discrimination against women 110. The obsessive fear of an invasion from within can result in serious violations of the rights of immigrant or minority women and offences against their person. Two examples might be mentioned. In February 1995 a Somali woman who was seven months pregnant was reportedly beaten to death in a bus in Ostia, Italy, by three youths aged 16 and 17 years who were arrested. A Bangladeshi woman was injured in the same circumstances several days later. 54/ 111. The case of Moufida Ksouri should also be mentioned. On 15 July 1993, this young Frenchwoman of Arab origin was raped by two Italian police officers in the premises of the frontier checkpoint at Ventimiglia, Italy, and then by a member of the French air and border police, who reportedly made racist remarks in addition, in the adjoining French checkpoint at Menton. The two Italian police officers were found guilty and sentenced to five years and eight months in prison. As of April 1995 the French court proceedings had not yet been concluded. 55/ I. Racism and discrimination against children 112. On 23 September 1993, Tarzan Sulic, an 11-year-old Rom, was killed by a bullet fired at point-blank range by a police officer in Padua (Italy) and his female cousin, Mira Djuric, was seriously wounded when they were held illegally in a cell at a police station. The murderer was given a suspended sentence of five months and two days’ imprisonment. 56/ In July 1994, two Italian railway police officers are said to have taken two young Romany girls aged 11 and 13, who were begging, to the police station at the Porta Nuova Station in Turin and cut their long hair before releasing them. The Romany cultural tradition attaches great value to the long hair of Gypsy women. Other similar humiliations to punish beggars are said to have been recorded in Milan and Rome. 57/ 113. In France, children born of foreign parents on French soil are regarded as full French nationals, but it sometimes happens that, as a result of hasty procedures, they find themselves separated from one of their parents when the latter is found to be illegally in the territory, despite the legislation which prohibits the expulsion of parents of French children. The failure to regularize the administrative situation of such parents inflicts a certain injury on them, but inflicts an even greater one on their children, who are thereby deprived of a normal family life. 58/ 114. At times, racial discrimination is coupled with violence against children. In Brazil, for instance, the majority of street children killed by the death squads are Black or of mixed race. In the State of São Paulo, the proportion of Black or mixed-race children killed is estimated at 56.7 per cent. 59/ In Rio de Janeiro, where in July 1993 the massacre of seven children in front of the /...