‘Refugees dying at border need you to protest now’
Refugees cross a river north of Idomeni Greece to get into Macedonia (Pic: Press Association/Vadim Ghirda)
Thousands of refugees marched out of the camp in Idomeni, northern Greece, on Monday of this week, looking for a way across the Macedonian border.
Around 15,000 people have been trapped there in mud and rain because European Union (EU) member states want to keep refugees out.
Refugees hiked through the freezing Suva river to defy the violent police blockade. At least three drowned. Almost 2,500 who made it across were arrested and sent back to Greece.
Nisreen is there with her three year old son. She has been told to apply for the EU relocation programme—but it won’t guarantee letting them join her husband in Germany.
Hussein from Aleppo in Syria joined a sit-down protest blocking the road. “We don’t want to stay here,” he said. “We don’t want any food or drink, we just want to pass—just to go.”
In Calais the French police are doing the Tories’ dirty work in smashing up the “Jungle” settlement of refugees trying to reach Britain.
After weeks of demolition of the Jungle’s southern half, a fire devastated its centre last Saturday, tearing through refugees’ ramshackle shops and mosque.
This horror could stop if Britain opened its border and let refugees in.
The persecution continues inside Britain, with prison-like detention centres (see page 16) and mass deportations. The latest charter jet full of rejected asylum seekers is set to fly to Nigeria next week.
Up to 2,000 joined a protest outside Yarl’s Wood detention centre last Saturday.
Afghan refugee Belal is not allowed to work and could be locked up at any moment. The worry has driven him to self harm. “I’ve been asking for asylum for eight years but they still won’t grant it,” he told Socialist Worker. “My family are all dead—and if I go back I’m dead too.”
Edith from Nigeria spoke to Socialist Worker from inside Yarl’s Wood where she has been detained for almost five months….
Read on:- https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/42367/%E2%80%98Refugees+dying+at+border+need+you+to+protest+now%E2%80%99
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