Tuesday, April 12, 2016

When military aged men use battering rams to enter a country illegally should they be called refugees or invaders?

Migrants use train carriage as BATTERING RAM to break through police barricade on border

HUNDREDS of migrants used a train carriage as a battering ram as they tried to smash through a police barricade on the Greece-Macedonia border.

Migrants at the border used a train
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Refugees and migrants protest as a unexploded gas canister explodes nearby as they rally
The refugees pushed the wagon with their bare hands after filling it with rocks they had stashed inside to use as weapons against officers.
The group of migrants used the locomotive as a battering ram after hijacking it from Idomeni station. 
Tensions are running high after the closure of the border between Greece and Macedonia, with thousands of refugees camped along the former crossing. 
Many are living in the squalid Idomeni Camp, home to roughly 12,000 people. 
Greek police managed to quell the group, who hijacked the carriage, and persuaded them to return the train to the station. 
It was reported that the seizure of the wagon was in retaliation of brutal treatment at the hands of border guards. 
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Hundreds of migrants turn out to protest the border closure
One member of the mob said: "Yesterday they oppressed us, hit us with tear gas, rubber bullets, five caliber. 
“They detained 10 of our friends, took them, beat them up, they even broke some bones.”
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported they treated 300 people after clashes near the camp on Sunday, around 200 with breathing problems due to tear gas. 
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Migrants drag a train to the closed border
Yesterday they oppressed us, hit us with tear gas, rubber bullets, five caliber. 
Migrant 
Also injured in the skirmish was 15 police officers, five seriously.
The taking of the train is the latest in a string of violent flashes between the stranded migrants and officials, both Greek and Macedonian.
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Refugees and migrants protest as a unexploded gas canister explodes mistakenly near by as they rally
The thousands stuck in the sprawling tent cities along the borders risk being deported back to Turkey under a new EU deal, which came into force earlier this month. 
Over the past year one million migrants have poured into northern Europe, making a dangerous journey through the Balkans. 
But numerous countries have shut down the route trod by hundreds of thousands of migrants, leading to riots which has blighted Idomeni and neighbouring towns. 
The migrants are continually demanding that the borders are re-opened so they can continue their journey north through the continent. 

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