Crisis for Lesbos as Muslims arrive

1. 2020-02-10 at 7:48 PM UTC

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   Kuntzschutz African Astronaut

   Greek authorities are struggling to cope with rising tension on islands where pressure from a new influx of refugees and migrants has reached a critical point.
   
   Friction is growing between local people and asylum seekers landing in boats from Turkey. Last week the region’s most senior official likened the situation on Lesbos to a “powder keg ready to explode”. Kostas Moutzouris, governor of the north Aegean, said: “It’s crucial that a state of emergency is called.”
   
   More than 42,000 men, women and children are estimated to be on Lesbos, Samos, Chios, Leros and Kos. Unable to leave because of a containment policy determined by the EU, they are forced to remain on the islands until their asylum requests are processed by a system both understaffed and overstretched.
   
   Aid groups have repeatedly called for the islands to be evacuated. On Friday an estimated 20,000 refugees were on Lesbos, forced to endure the grim reality of Moria, a camp designed to host 3,000 at most.
   
   
   “They are living in squalid, medieval-like conditions … with barely any access to basic services, including clean and hot water, electricity, sanitation and healthcare,” said Sophie McCann, Médecins Sans Frontières’ advocacy officer. “On a daily basis our medical teams are treating the consequential deterioration of health and wellbeing.”
   
   But she added that the local people had also been given short shrift. “The Lesbos community has been abandoned by its own government for almost five years to deal with the consequences of a failed reception system. Like the refugee community, it is tired.”
   
   As anti-immigrant sentiment has surged, vigilante groups believed to be infiltrated by supporters of the far-right Golden Dawn party have surfaced. On Friday seven men armed with wooden clubs were arrested in the hilltop village of Moria on suspicion of being members of a gang apparently linked to Golden Dawn.

   
   wild
   
   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/09/tensions-refugees-and-islanders-crisis-on-lesbos
2. 2020-02-10 at 7:56 PM UTC

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   Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Dark Matter [my scoffingly uncritical tinning]
   These immigrants are nearly all men.
3. 2020-02-10 at 8:03 PM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole
   I should go to Morocco and rape some women wearing burkas.
4. 2020-02-10 at 8:30 PM UTC

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   Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Dark Matter [my scoffingly uncritical tinning]

   Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood I should go to Morocco and rape some women wearing burkas.

   
   Apparently if you're white you can just do whatever you want with Moroccan women, that's why I was thinking about going there, but I chickened out.
5. 2020-02-10 at 8:37 PM UTC

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   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
   Leftists and Muslims are friends. Remember? I'm sure they can work out a friendly arrangement to get their heads chopped off for Allah.
6. 2020-02-10 at 8:43 PM UTC

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   Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Dark Matter [my scoffingly uncritical tinning]

   Originally posted by -SpectraL jedis and Muslims are friends. Remember? I'm sure they can work out a friendly arrangement to get their heads chopped off for Allah.

   
   Fixed