from Enough is Enough! by Riot Turtle.Read all reports about RefugeesGR; here.
Cars of Hope at Lesvos: “Despair in Peoples Eyes, Hunger, Broken Shoes, Improvised Tents and Wet Clothes. Welcome to Europe!”
It’s cold on Lesvos. Around 4 or 5 degrees Celsius or even less during the night. The military run Moria camp is on a hill and the wind makes it even feel colder. Images in my head. The same images that I saw many times before on the Balkan route. Despair in peoples eyes, hunger, broken shoes, improvised tents and wet clothes. Welcome to Europe!
I arrived at Lesvos on December 17 and every time I think I have seen it all, the European Union (EU) and it’s member states proof me wrong. When I went into the Moria camp for the first time I saw stockpiles of trash, people living in summer tents and people waiting in front of the registration office. Moria is totally overcrowded, the EU/Turkey deal turned the Greek islands into open prisons. Apart from some so-called “vulnerable” people nobody is allowed to leave the islands. But the criteria of who is considered to be vulnerable and who is not are a joke.
About 15.000 people are now trapped on the Greek islands. Some for more then 18 months now. After more and more media reports about the inhuman conditions people are forced to live in and the ongoing #OpenTheIslands campaign the Greek government finally started to bring more people to the Greek main land. But at some days the numbers of new people that are arriving on the Greek islands are higher then the number of people that are transferred to the mainland of the Greek territory. Continue reading “Happy New Hell 2018 for forgotten Refugees: at #Lesvos: “Despair in Peoples Eyes””
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