Thursday, September 03, 2015

"We Won't Be Taken to Camps" - Father throws himself, his wife and baby onto rail tracks in Hungary after realising their 'train to Austria' is actually taking them to a refugee camp


The article itself does not actually mention camps.

From the Independent:
Witnesses said people rushed platforms after the station's doors were opened, but officials said no trains would be running to western Europe. 
Amid the confusion and an intial pause in which the station ran no services at all, some domestic trains were allowed to leave platforms headed for towns not far from the Austrian and Slovakian borders. 
But reports from Hungary suggest refugees were hauled off those trains at the first stop west of Budapest, amid a hardening of the rhetoric surrounding the crisis from the Hungarian government. 
Late on Wednesday, as the standoff worsened, refugees had said they were prepared to walk the 105-mile journey to the Austrian border if police refused to open the station. 
Hungary, which has previously moved on almost all asylum applicants to other EU countries, stopped doing so this week and said it had the backing of its neighbours to block refugees' progress. 
The country was alone among EU member states earlier this year when it said it would not offer a single home to Syrian or Eritrean asylum-seekers as part of a bloc-wide commitment. 
Its anti-immigrant prime minister, Viktor Orban, said after talks in Brussels today that no refugee would be allowed to pass through Hungary unchecked, and that he was pushing through measures to create "a new legal situation at the borders, even more strict that it was".

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