The European coalition of the inhumane contriving to trap refugees in Greece – cannot recede on. A humanitarian evacuation plan is urgently neededA coalition of the inhumane is rising in Europe. A group of political leaders have been assembly this week in Vienna to coordinate how to seal the western Balkan refugee passage. The countries involved,including Macedonia, Croatia and Serbia, or don’t want to risk hosting thousands of stranded people in their destitute societies. They expect that by intentionally causing a humanitarian disaster in Greece they are going to stop the distress of the world getting in their backyard. Only this week Greece pleaded with Macedonia to reopen its border as 4000 refugees became stranded.
Meanwhile the four Visegrád countries (the Czech Republic,Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) who have not been not invited to join these discussions, and are also at the forefront of this ideological campaign to seal the Balkan route. Their motivation is based on an Islamophobic narrative,as advocated by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, a self-declared enemy of liberal democracy and consolidator of a Christian front against the Islamisation of Europe.
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Source: theguardian.com