Police Launch Violent Crackdown On Paris Refugee Camp November 26, 2020 Police Launch Violent Crackdown On Paris Refugee Camp2020-11-262020-11-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/francepol-e1606438207904.jpg200px200px Above photo: Demonstrators march with a banner that reads “Vote for Macron they said”, during a rally on the Place de La Republique in Paris, Tuesday, Nov.24, 2020. France’s interior minister ordered an internal police investigation Tuesday after officers were filmed tossing migrants out of tents while evacuating a protest camp in Paris. AP Photo/Michel Euler. French riot police went on a fascistic rampage Monday evening, brutally assaulting a peaceful tent camp of some 500 refugees at the Place de la République […]
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Greek police launched an operation on Thursday morning to transfer residents of the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, which was devastated by a powerful blaze, to the new tent city in Kara Tepe, the Ekathimerini newspaper reported on Thursday. Earlier this week, the newspaper reported that Greece planned to strengthen the police presence at the new migrant facility set up at an old military firing range to ensure order and protection as the country made efforts to relocate these migrants. At the same time, many migrants were reluctant to enter the new camp, as […]
The previous day, Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said that the fire at the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, which accommodated over 12,000 people, had been started by asylum seekers Live from the Greek island of Lesbos this Thursday, one day after the Moria refugee camp, which had been housing almost 13,000 people, around four times its official capacity, was engulfed in flames. The fire broke out in several parts of the overcrowded facility on Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of the migrants living there. The migrants were forced to leave the camp and sleep on roadsides, parking lots and fields across […]
Ftaim al-Saleh stands in the tent donated by friends and relatives after her four youngest children died when their tent caught fire, as she and her husband were working in the fields. The Syrian refugee couple came to Jordan eight years ago, after airstrikes destroyed their house. Jane Arraf/NPR hide caption toggle caption Jane Arraf/NPR Editor’s note: This story includes details some readers may find disturbing. Ftaim al-Saleh’s young nieces and nephews play in the dirt near her family’s new tent on the road to Amman’s international airport. Her own youngest children are buried up the road — four of them […]
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__________Morning StarOfficials stunned after UN denies knowledge of Turkish air strike on Maxmur refugee camp THE UNITED NATIONS’ refugee agency has finally broken its silence with what has been branded a bizarre string of denials regarding Turkey’s bombing of the Maxmur refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan more than two weeks ago. Responding to questions posed by the Morning Star, the UNHCR insisted that it was not aware of the air strikes — despite global coverage, appeals from camp officials and confirmation by the Turkish armed forces. The agency’s spokesman for Iraq, Firas al-Khateeb claimed: “UNHCR has not recently received any reports […]
Etti Shlomo, a Jewish refugee from Egypt doesn’t hold grudges, nor does she look back at the property and life she left behind in Cairo. But after immigrating to Israel in 1950 and establishing a new life there, she does feel that Jews were treated unfairly. The 20th of June marks international refugee day honouring 25.9 million people around the world, who have been forced to flee their homes. Many of them fled from their home towns in the Middle East, seeking refuge in Europe and the Americas. Etti Shlomo, from the northern Israeli city of Yoqneam, also considers herself a refugee […]
On Oct. 28, 2015, Amel Alzakout embarked on a boat from the western coast of Turkey, destined for the Greek island of Lesvos. A Syrian refugee, Alzakout was hoping to join her partner in Germany, where he, a filmmaker, had been invited for the Berlin International Film Festival and had subsequently applied for asylum. Alzakout tried to obtain a spouse’s visa, then a work visa, but was unsuccessful at every turn. “We tried all the legal ways to reunite, but nothing worked out,” says Alzakout. “After nine months of staying apart, I decided to take the other route that most refugees […]
While for Israelis 14 May will always be remembered as a day when a new nation was born, for Palestinians, it is remembered as a catastrophe, and is associated with expulsions, dire economic conditions, humiliation and the loss of property, the total cost of which stands at more than $50 billion. Friday will mark 72 years since the Israeli declaration of independence in 1948. Palestinians call this day the Nakba, which translates as ‘catastrophe’ in English, a day when they remember the displacement of Palestinians that accompanied the establishment of Israel’s statehood. The war that followed shortly after the announcement led to […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A fire at the Kutupalong refugee camp near the Bangladeshi city of Cox’s Bazar has resulted in the destruction of more than 350 dwellings housing Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, media reported on Tuesday. “The fire broke out from a house adjacent to the camp and quickly it spread to the adjacent shanties,” Refugee Relief and Repatriation Additional Commissioner Mohammad Shamsuddoha said, as quoted by the newspaper. According to the Bangladeshi newspaper New Age, the fire damaged a further 350 dwellings and approximately 20 people suffered injuries and received treatment at a Doctors Without Borders field hospital. According to […]