E/CN.4/1998/79 page 12 37. In Pakistan, according to reports by the International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, dated 19 September 1997, the Mohajirs, who are refugees who came from India at the time of partition, are said to be exposed to xenophobic attacks by the Pakistani authorities. According to the organization, they are often illegally dispossessed of their property; at election time, Mohajir candidates are allegedly the victims of acts of violence and their supporters are regularly kidnapped and tortured in secrecy. The Special Rapporteur communicated these allegations to the Government of Pakistan on 21 November 1997. 38. In Bahrain, the non-governmental organization Campaign for Civil Rights in Bahrain, in a letter dated 14 October 1997 to the Special Rapporteur, reported acts of discrimination and xenophobia, mostly encouraged by legislation which discriminates against Shiites in the country. The latter are allegedly excluded from all positions of importance in the State and now account for only 23 per cent of the best-paid civil servants. Shiite students are said to be blatantly kept out of the university, even when they have passed the necessary examinations. The Special Rapporteur communicated those allegations to the Government of Bahrain on 21 November 1997. C. Anti-Semitism 39. The organization known as International League for Human Rights, in October 1997, sent the Special Rapporteur several allegations concerning the perpetration of anti-Semitic acts in certain countries. 40. In Russia, a neo-Nazi group, which is very active and has a large membership, allegedly controls a large part of Moscow and certain other areas of Russia. The Russkoe Natsionalnoe Edinstov, an extremist organization founded in 1990, is said to be distributing racist material in public gardens and parks, to be inciting to racial violence with full impunity, and to be recruiting adolescents in schools from the age of 13 onwards, in order to train them ideologically and militarily with a view to indoctrinating them to perpetrate such acts. This organization is said to enjoy the implicit support of local authorities. 41. In South Africa, anti-Semitic acts of violence are said to have been perpetrated in particular in the city of Cape Town on 12 July 1997. Still, according to the International League for Human Rights, about 2,500 persons claiming membership of an organization called Muslims against Global Oppression (MAGO), are said to have demonstrated in front of the premises of the Israeli Embassy in Cape Town, shouting anti-Semitic slogans, and then displaying notices insulting the Jews. Other similar incidents are said to have occurred on 14 July in the same city, where a Jewish study centre and library were allegedly set on fire. 42. In Belarus, an anti-Jewish propaganda programme is reported to have been broadcast on State television on 27 July 1997. The programme was said to have contained a scene of a ritual Jewish murder which occurred in 1690. 43. In Slovakia, the Ministry of Education allegedly distributed copies of a book on the History of Slovakia and the Slovaks to primary school teachers.