Refugees in Libya highlight injustice of EU opening up borders to white people but not them
Refugees fleeing conflict in neighboring Ukraine arrive to in Przemysl, Poland, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022
REFUGEES stuck in Libya have hit out at European governments’ treatment of non-white refugees following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
At least 368,000 people have reached the borders of Poland, Hungary, Romania and Moldova from Ukraine, the United Nations’ refugee agency said today.
Government agencies across the continent expressed solidarity with Ukrainian refugees over the weekend, sharing images of the country’s blue and yellow flag on social media and lighting their buildings up with the same colours.
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