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‘I would be more happy in Moria than in this place’
After the notorious refugee camp on the island of Lesbos burnt down in September, a replacement has now been built. But with no shower facilities, clean toilets, water system, power or sufficient food, Moria 2.0 is even worse than its predecessor. BETHANY RIELLY reports
Refugees gather outside the new camp in Kara Tepe, where residents have described inhumane conditions with no running water or sanitation facilities, as they wait to be transferred to mainland Greece

AS Yasser watched Moria collapse in an orange haze, he saw a flicker of hope in the flames.

After more than a year in the notorious refugee camp on Lesbos, he thought that now, surely, Europe would have to give them a dignified home. 

Four weeks on and the young refugee tells me he no longer puts hope in anyone but himself. 

‘Worse than Moria’ 

It’s impossible to make this a dignified, bearable place for winter

Dignified camps threatened with closure

‘No more Morias’

‘Whenever you have hopes in others it won’t work’

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