[Debate] Favor ou contra o acolhimento de refugiados na Europa?

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Something beautiful happened today at Idomeni — a solar puff wedding. Group of volunteers helped celebrate a wedding of two Syrian refugees, in the rain and mud of Idomeni refugee camp. Everything was there — a dress, cake and flowers.

 

الف مبروك

انشاء الله ان حياتكم الزوجيه تكون في الحب،

السلام والامن

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Volunteers Needed!Please share!

 

The Chios Eastern Shore Response Team needs volunteers. We are expanding and doing more than ever. Since the EU-Turkey deal, over 2,000 refugees have been stuck on the Island. CESRT have been providing clothes, food and supporting the unaccompanied minors both in the orphanage and camps.

 

Over the last month, we are also the only organisation on the Island to provide structured educational and recreational activities for the refugee children. So far, we have set up a children and youth programme where we take kids aged between 6-18 out of one of the camps to partake in educational and sports activities. We can’t stress just how important it has been to provide some structure to their lives, as many of these kids have either never been to school or at least not been able to attend over the last few years due to war.

 

Alongside the youth programme, we have also been working with another volunteer organisation (BAAS) to set up a small school for the refugee children. Our aim is to provide at least one day of schooling per week for each child. It is the most ambitious project we have set upon yet and in one week we will open. The teachers are from the refugee and volunteer community and will be providing English, Arabic, Maths, Science and art lessons.

 

We need more volunteers to help support these two projects.

If you are a teacher or have experienced running a summer camp or have worked with children before, please get in touch with us. We need you! You could be helping to run these two amazing projects that are changing the lives of the refugee children in Chios.

 

Perdoem o mau inglês, a senhora é grega e não fala muito bem inglês. Caso queiram entrar em contacto mandem-me MP.

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17th May, Chios, Greece

A group of Syrian and Palestinian refugees including 15 men and 13 women begin a hunger strike in Souda camp. Some have been detained on the island for 58 days, living in conditions consistently criticised for breaching basic human rights.

Their children are living alongside, with no access to education and at a time babies were being denied access to adequate milk.

They simply ask that they receive information about asylum, a lawyer represents them and that interviews are scheduled to begin the process of their applications.

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His name was Muhammed. He was a 44 year old Syrian refugee who was rushed to Chios hospital from Vial after experiencing severe stomach pain. He had a surgery, but something went wrong and his abdomen was left open for two months, full of septic puss and rotten skin around it. His friends and family tried to get him transferred to a better mainland hospital with no results. We have been in touch with medical staff who confirmed he was in great danger and would benefit from being transferred to a better hospital, but did (or couldn't do) nothing to arrange the transfer. Meanwhile, we watched his condition deteriorate. One day his friend sent us a photo of Muhammed cramping on a hospital floor like an wounded animal, bandages everywhere. He lost so many pounds. His face completely changed, pale, thin and deformed from pain and fear. Still, authorities did nothing to help with the transfer

 

Let turkey and EUROPE think of money

Thanks again for killing us

Deixa viúva a mulher, que está grávida

R.I.P.

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Relato de uma voluntária sobre a evacuação de Idomeni:

The last 48 hours were intense, I decided to stay at the refugee camp of Idomeni during the all evacuation, to see with my eyes what they were doing to this people. The police were looking for photographers, journalist and independent volunteers to arrest, so I had to hide myself with my friend Flor the all time.

We came here to help but we ended up being helped. The families gave us clothes, food, shelter and protection and we spent the last two days/nights with them.

Wearing Syrian clothes and pretending that we were part of a family, this morning, we didn't have any other option than enter in a bus which is doing the transport to the military camps. On the way we passed by a spot where all the TV's are set to cover what is happening and we inside the bus as refugees with all the info that needed.

We were afraid as we didn't have paper (refugee paper) and we could get in trouble. The bus took us to near by Thessaloniki, a camp in the middle of nowhere, a poor construction with white tends inside, full of police and military. The police says to everyone: you are free to stay or leave, here you have food! So we and a group of refugees left, we changed clothes in a gas station and get our freedom again... Leaving these families behind without being able to say goodbye was the hardest part... Once again we experience that papers and passports are more important than humans lives :-(

Stay strong my friends and hope you all can make your life in Europe! See you soon!

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02.06.16 - This morning, 130 people arrived on the island of Chios in 3 rubber dinghies (bottom half of the photo) supported only by wooden floor boards. They paid on average 800 per person to make the dangerous crossing.

 

Later that morning, another group of passengers arrived, in a completely different fashion: On the cruise ship "Celestial" about 5 storeys high, sturdy and equipped with wait staff dressed in matching uniforms. I couldn't tell you much about those arrivals except they treated the earlier arrivals, who were sitting on the gravel like zoo exhibits, by taking photos before proceeding on their merry holiday making ways.

 

I can tell you about the earlier arrivals though.

 

One of them was a 15 year old boy, with deformed hands who travelled from Raqqa. ISIL didn't allow his parents to leave but he could due to his condition. He wanted to go to Germany to seek medical help. He hears that the doctors are excellent there.

 

I can also tell you about B, a pregnant woman, who arrived with 3 other children, and 3 months old twins in her belly but lost one this very day. How she was bleeding, had to be brought to the hospital by the tireless team from Salvamento Marítimo Humanitario and how the team had to bring her back after the procedure as she wasn't given a bed to rest.

 

Never mind that she just lost a baby, BACK to the port to rest in the dirty hut dear, be off with you. And how a certain bigger NGO rocked up at 2pm only because they've been alerted to get their shit together to get a hotel room for the family.

 

How she slept, but woke up to tend to rest of her 3 children when some eggs arrived. I helped her peel some and how hard I had to choke back on my tears when she, during one of the heartbreaking moments a mother has to face, offered me one first. I wanted to scream, but I smiled, said thank you, stuffed the entire egg in my mouth so I wouldn't cry.

 

Europe sprang into action last summer when a photo showing the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi washed onto the shores. Many mothers talked at length with me about how they wanted to help because it broke their hearts, and how they can remember his red t-shirt and blue shorts in vivid detail. The photo was largely credited for shifting public opinion in favour of refugees.

 

This week, 700+ people lost their lives on the central Mediterranean, making it one of the worst nautical disasters ever recorded there, yet I saw no one turning their profile photos black. One of the victims was a baby but Europe seems to have gone numb.

 

If no one is talking about that dead baby, what about those babies who never had the opportunity to make it into this world due to the dangerous journey? What about the women who suffer unnecessary heartbreak of their loss? Or worse, what about those women who have to make the horrible choice no woman should ever have to make, whether to terminate their pregnancy because of the hopelessness of it all.

 

The world is indeed a fucked up place.

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This is Shirin, she is from Syria. She has a Masters degree in Civil Engineering and speaks 3 languages including fluent english. Until yesterday she had never seen the sea, but with no other choice than death, had to pay €2000 to cross it to Greece in an impossibly overcrowded wooden boat, which shattered apart after 15 minutes. With the right passport she could travel safely, and legally, this same journey that would cost you and I €15. With her mother and two sisters she was in the water for over 4 hours and survived. Many others did not. This is what a refugee looks like.

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Família de refugiados desaparece de Mangualde sem deixar rasto

Uma família de refugiados sírios desapareceu de Mangualde sem deixar rasto. A família tinha chegado da Grécia há quinze dias e estavam a começar o processo de integração. Situações semelhantes a esta já foram denunciadas noutras zonas do país.

 

http://www.rtp.pt/noticias/pais/familia-de-refugiados-desaparece-de-mangualde-sem-deixar-rasto_v927682#

[Enzo Dios Perez]

A esta hora já estão na Alemanha.

[Che]

Suspeita-se que a Turquia após receber os 6 mil milhões de euros esteja a distribuir passaportes turcos pelos refugiados para se irem embora. :lol: Que reis

 

 

Erdogan ,who is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and whose main aim is to deface Islam, has succeeded in exposing the role of the Muslim Brotherhood to deface Islam

By Naram Sarjoun

 

The features of deception on Europe and the Syrian Refugees have started to show up on some of the Syrian Refugees who arrived legally to Europe carrying legitimate Turkish passport.

 

It turned out that the Turkish authority is giving the Syrians high cost Turkish passports just to use them to cross the boarders.

 

The game lies in giving the Turkish passport to the Syrian people through Turkish middlemen who are often connected to the Turkish intelligence. When the Syrian Refugees arrived to Europe by any airport ,they mostly give back the Turkish passport to the Turkish middlemen and announce themselves refugees. This way,which started to be clear now,shows that Erdogan insists on exporting all refugees to Europe and clean Turkey from them after agreeing with Europe to stop the illegal emigration of the refugees. As usual Erdogan never keeps his promises and always breaks his vows . He promised to help the Syrian Refugees and at the same time he received a high price of his hostage : 3 milliard Euro from Europe .

 

As he never keeps a vow he started encouraging the illegal dangerous and savage emigration and the results were many drawn and died . Thus he is getting rid of his brothers and sisters with whom he sat, shared food and took pictures but this is something which is different from the truth . Having the refugees in Turkey something worried him and if he doesn't get rid of them by emigration he would burn them in ovens. Here you are a Syrian Refugee who ran away from Syria to Turkey leaving behind him many children. After 6 months, this man received by a Turkish middleman a legal Turkish passport and a visa to Germany by 1000 Euro. After the expire of the visa , this man gave back his Turkish passport to unknown person . Time has passed and this man got his residence and succeeded in reuniting with his family by the reunion procedures but due to a mistake in the arrangements and after checking his finger prints , this man's residence was cancelled and he was forced to go back to Turkey. His dream and the dream of his family was lost because of a big skulduggery. There is a question which we don't know the answer : how much the Turkish government is involved in this kind of trade as the Turkish passports are 100% legal ?

Erdogan....This man can't be trusted . He was born to cheat , lie , sell , stab and deceive.. I am sure that no one ever trusts him.

I cheat then I exist. I break my promises then I exist. I lie then I exist. He managed to prove an equation as an Islamic leader to deface Islam:

I am a Muslim then I am a cheater.

[Che]

Soldados: Gratuito

Turcos: 1,75

Sírios: 3

 

Estão preparadíssimos para ingressar na União.

[Enzo Dios Perez]

Também é só mais 1.25€, não é muito mais caro. Descriminam mas sem exageros, até dá gosto lidar com pessoas assim. Fosse outro e pura e simplesmente não venderia a sírios.

[Che]

Já reagiram a essa cena

 

Soldiers: 25TL

My mother: 25TL

Officials: 25TL

Civilians: 25TL

Syrians: FREE

Racists: DON'T COME HERE

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Refugees Caught Up in Child Prostitution in Athens

 

The first of a two-part investigation into prostitution among child refugees in Athens. With 57,000 refugees stranded in Greece, we look at what some of the most vulnerable among them are doing to survive.

 

 

There are new arrivals in the once grand park of Pedion tou Areos in central Athens. Among the drug dealers and dog walkers, joggers and junkies, are a shifting cast of refugee children. Lured into the vastness of its ruined tree-lined avenues and vandalized statues by the promise of money and a way out of Greece, they have found themselves prey to a burgeoning sex trade.

 

Every day as the intense heat of Athenian summer slides towards sunset, young boys take their places, sitting alone on benches, waiting for a nervous game of eye contact to begin. Older men, some pretending to read newspapers, others pretending to be out for an early evening stroll, assess the marketplace.

 

Activity is usually most intense at a secluded pedestrian roundabout, where a chin-high hedge offers the promise of privacy. Inside the bushes is a broken fountain and a small clearing long enough to lie down in. A filthy foam mattress has been unrolled on the grass surrounded by discarded cans and bottles, and a handful of used condom wrappers. It’s an open-air brothel.

 

Outside, a handsome boy with black hair and blue eyes, who looks no older than 15, is more confident than the others and patrols the circle meeting the gaze of all around him. Spotting a lone, older man on a bench, he approaches and sits down. He says his name is Zehman and adds in broken English that he is 16 and from Afghanistan.

 

He moves closer and waits for a proposal. When it’s made clear that there are only questions on offer and no money, he gets nervous and moves on.

 

A few benches away sits Ali, hunched over, looking exhausted. He has none of Zehman’s swagger, or even his broken English, but he is less coy. Offered a phone to talk to a colleague in Farsi, he says he is 17 and has been in Greece for three months. He agrees to meet the next morning outside of the park and tell his story.

 

“I never thought I’d have to do something like this,” Ali admits. “When the money ran out I had to learn to do this. The first time I did it I felt very ashamed, but over time you start to get used to it. It was the first time I do this, I had no experience.”

 

At such a young age, Ali, whose straight, dark hair falls into his eyes, is already twice a refugee. His father fled Daykundi province in central Afghanistan during the Soviet war in the 1980s. They made it as far as Tehran, the capital of Iran. When his father died, Ali moved in with his uncle who already had too many mouths to feed.

 

There are few prospects for Ali’s generation, with nearly 1 million registered Afghan refugees growing up in Iran, most, like him, living in hardscrabble poverty on the outskirts of Tehran. One day last year, he says, he realized that all his friends had left, so there was no reason to stay: “When everyone leaves, you feel left behind.”

 

Getting to Greece involved an 18-hour trek through the snow and past dead, frozen bodies over the mountains into Turkey. Once across the border it was a bus journey to Istanbul and down to the coast, across the water from the Greek island of Lesbos.

 

The first attempt to reach Greece ended when the overcrowded dinghy he was in sank. Luckily it was near enough to the Turkish shore that they could swim back. After nightfall they clambered into another inflatable and tried again. Although he remembers being scared by the night and the overcrowding, once the other shore was reached “we thought we’d arrived in a dream.”

 

Ali and his boatload of new friends got temporary papers and left Lesbos the next day on a ferry to Athens. Everyone was in a terrible hurry after the closure of Greece’s northern borders, he says. After risking so much to get this far, there was a forlorn hope that he could continue.

 

Together with some other boys he traveled north to the informal refugee encampment at Idomeni on the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). They stayed for 10 days in appalling conditions, hoping to somehow find a way through the Greek border. “I needed to know it really was closed,” he says.

 

Ali’s phone, on which he once exchanged excited Viber and Facebook messages with a friend who had reached Austria, is gone. So is almost everything else. He has been wearing the same clothes for a week. He has more, but they’re equally filthy and kept in a plastic bag inside the park.

 

Sometimes the men who want sex give him 10 euros ($11), sometimes only 5 euros. Most of the time the men want sex up against a tree or in the bushes, he says. Most of them don’t use condoms. Some of the younger or prettier boys can earn up to 30 euros a time and are taken to apartments or to the cheap hotels that line the nearby Victoria Square.

 

“These men are ill,” Ali says of the clients. “They’re deeply sick.”

 

Tassos Smetopoulos, an experienced Greek social worker who has been monitoring the drug scene and the arrival of refugees in greater numbers at the park, has his own explanation. “The word is out that these kids are the cheapest and the youngest,” he says. “They have got mixed up in a crisis that has nothing to do with them and has been years in the making.”

 

These children who came to Europe in the hope of a better life have found themselves as collateral damage in the worst economic crisis the E.U. has seen. After six years of precipitous recession, there are whole areas of the Greek capital, like Pedion tou Areos, where the state is effectively absent.

 

After the closure of its borders, 57,000 refugees and migrants have been stranded in a country wholly unprepared to look after them. Nearly 40 percent of the new arrivals in Greece in 2016 are children, of whom 1,146 are registered as unaccompanied minors. Most of the children traveling alone do not even appear in these figures as they have avoided being registered as underage, like Ali did, for fear of being detained.

https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2016/07/14/refugees-caught-up-in-child-prostitution-in-athens

[Sumudica by Night]

NSFW

 

[Inkie]

f*da-se :|

[Che]

Kek, eu bem estranhei um reflexo estranho no vidro. Era a insignia da FSA. :lol:

 

Eles têm recebido amnistia por parte do governo para largarem as armas e se dirigirem a instituições democráticas para demonstrarem a sua oposição. Querem continuar a brincar aos cowboys. Tenho pena dos inocentes.

[Jan Oblak]

Quem bombardeou? :|

[Che]

Provavelmente a Russia ou a Síria. Os EUA não bombardeiam áreas controladas por terroristas.

 

Edit - Em Aleppo os terroristas vão acedendo à amnistia oferecida pelo Bashar al Assad. Podem até regressar à Europa.

Editado 30 Julho 2016 por Fidel Castro

[Che]

Refugiado homossexual decapitado em Istambul

O título fala por si. Descem vertiginosamente na escala de bom-senso. Já entraram em full jihad mode.

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"You need to puncture your raft before you arrive, or they’ll send you back.” “If you apply for the relocation programme, they send you to Venezuela.” “In Europe you won’t need money, everything is free.”

 

The Mediterranean Rumour Tracker is a project aimed at collecting and dispelling the rumours and myths faced by refugees during their journey to Europe.

Rumours and lies: 'The refugee crisis is an information crisis'

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Calais refugee camp running out of food amid donor fatigue

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Greek Villagers Rescued Migrants. Now They Are the Ones Suffering.

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Report from anti-refugee demonstration in Chios, 14.09.2016

 

‘’Where are our children?’’ asked a worried mother and father last night as a crowd of under 100 mainly teenage refugees dispersed from the entrance of Souda camp in Chios.

 

‘’They are in the school and they are safe, they will be brought back to you when everything here calms down,’’ was all that we could offer in reassurance.

 

During the hours of last night a demonstration gathered in the centre of Chios, mainly of locals upset by the situation on the island but also of racists and fascists, intent on causing upset and harm to all the refugees stranded on the island. After the group reached over 200 people they marched to the first, most insecure camp on the island, home to many children, with tents exposed to the street from all angles.

 

‘’Get inside, inside,’’ police shouted at those who hadn’t realised what was about to occur and were trying to enjoy an evening in a park.

 

A small child in a wheelchair was rushed over the pavement and inside. We don’t know how he ended up in this condition, maybe it was from the war in his family’s country, where the sound of bombs filled the sky many nights they tried to sleep. Much like the sound the protestors decided to recreate before they began their march to the camp, it was a huge and terrifying sound and impossible for us to imagine the ensuing feelings it invoked on those in the camps.

 

Holding candles they chanted and shouted, staring into the little camp. Inside was a mood of complete fear and shock; Europeans actively expressing the anti-refugee sentiment their government and media lead.

 

‘’Why do they hate us…?’’ was a question on more than one persons lips as they stood inside their makeshift home, trapped, helpless and with no other option to listen to the hateful rhetoric forced upon them.

 

Before they reached the next, much larger camp, a small group had gathered; warned by their friends of the impending crowd. They shouted back at the protestors for an hour or so but didn’t resort to violence; rallied by the hatred brought to their doorstep and mainly expressing their simple wish: ‘’Athena’’ - the next stop of the European leg of their long, long journey.

 

After things were calmed, four volunteers including myself and one refugee (who had asked what was happening with the view of helping reduce the tensions) were taken by police, after having our phones and bags taken from us. Two of us were simply leaving and explained to the authorities we had in fact just tried to help keep the situation calm. We were treated kindly once we arrived to the station and held only a few hours but the show it made in front of the protestors and the refugees was clear.

 

The images you saw in your history classes of groups of people segregated from other members of society have at times of course existed in a much more bloody and horrific context; however, they were based on exactly the same principles.

 

Europeans and Europe is pushing these people, who fled their homes, who lost their livelihoods and many of whom lost much more, into tiny, overcrowded camps, where their identities are taken from them and their rights slowly chipped away. Sat all day, waiting, they have little to do, they follow what your media says, your Facebook and your governments; all the while wondering why: ‘’Why do you hate us?’’

 

After the march ended, racists reportedly attacked volunteers and journalists through the night and refugees sat in their tents, some scared, some angry and some totally devastated.

 

Last night innocent people were terrified by ordinary people and those of us who supported them were criminalised.

 

They have planned another demonstration tomorrow.

[Quan Chi]

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