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A child cries as migrants arrive at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing on a dinghy the Aegean sea from Turkey today
TWO refugees have been killed and hundreds of others have been abused and neglected while trying to cross from Turkey to Greece in the past 72 hours.
Mohammad al-Arab, a 22-year-old Syrian man, was shot in the neck this morning while trying to cross the Greek border near Ipsala and a young boy drowned off the coast of Lesbos when the boat he and 46 others were on capsized today.
Thousands of people have attempted to cross into Europe since the Turkish government told refugees in the country last Friday that it could no longer host them and that its borders to Europe were open, following increasing disagreements with the EU.
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
