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#crossingnomore: “We have forgotten what it is like to feel safe”

Post author By admin
Post date September 23, 2015

by Caoimhe Butterly, source facebook A few kilometres away from the small Serbian border town of Sid, a dirt track through corn and turnip fields serves as passage to tens of thousands of women, men and children seeking refuge and lives of more possibility. The unofficial border crossing between Serbia and Croatia is surrounded by […]

Tags borders, Croatia, EU, EU crisis, humiliation, Hungary, migration, refugee crisis, Refugees, Serbia, Syria, violence

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“It was an illusionary expectation that in Europe we would have some rights and would be treated fairly”

Post author By admin
Post date September 18, 2015

Migrants in a park next to the main railway and bus station in the centre of Belgrade in Serbia (source: Irish Times)

Note from the LeftEast editors: this account by Caoimhe Butterly, currently in Belgrade, has been reprinted from facebook with the permission of the author. We spent last night in Belgrade’s main train station with families from Damascus, Aleppo and Deir al Zoor and a larger group of fellow travellers that they had befriended along the way. […]

Tags border, EU, EU crisis, humiliation, Macedonia, migration, refugee crisis, Refugees, self-organizing, Serbia, solidarity, violence