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Errefuxiatu krisi globala

The Game

The Game A cruel game to enter the European Union

They have travelled thousands of kilometres and several borders in the hope of living with dignity in a country without wars. Behind the Belgrade train station you see three large barracks that rise with blackened bricks. Although they were abandoned in the city centre, they have become a kind of refuge for the more than 500 young people who have left Afghanistan and Pakistan behind for months. These are hundreds of invisible fugitives that survive in winter, defying 20 degrees of temperature, disease and hunger below zero. Serbia is the last stop before entering the European Union, but they have been left without a ticket to travel and are apparently not well received anywhere.

Ehunka pertsona ilara luzeetan egunero ikusten dira Belgradeko barrakoietan bolondres gutxi batzuek prestatutako afari beroa eta tea hartzeko. Horietako batzuek motxila beltza izaten dute bizkarrean, afaldu ondoren mugara joango diren seinale.

Irantzu Pastor

10 May 2017

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Zarata mediatikoz beteriko garai nahasiotan, merkatu logiketatik urrun eta irakurleengandik gertu dagoen kazetaritza beharrezkoa dela uste baduzu, ARGIA bultzatzera animatu nahi zaitugu. Geroz eta gehiago gara, jarrai dezagun txikitik eragiten.

The Game players are children and young people between the ages of 10 and 25 who wait for Hungary or Croatia to skip the wall. The game of those who have been forced to flee from home. They call the attempt to overrun an iron wall full of military and police forces.

The young Afghan man who has just arrived from the border is injured by dog bites on his arm. In the evening, the Hungarian police severely torture most of those who try to pass the wall; they attack them with dogs, take away all their clothes and make them lie naked in the snow, beat them and bleed and the police take “selfies” with them. “Yesterday, naked and blindfolded, the three police officers kicked me to football, they were drunk.”

Shafiullah, 16, a native of Afghanistan, is an Afghan citizen. A year ago he had to flee the village because the Taliban burned his face with acid. The Afghan conflict has also turned 16 and children and young people have never known peace, the war has written their story. “…but we are second-class refugees. Only aircraft from Syria and Iraq are seen in the media. They're wrong, but we don't even exist," says Shafiullah half smiling

The number of children who have traveled alone in Belgrade is very high. In the nine- or ten-year-olds, there is no trace of childhood. They have had to spend months on foot and on the way many of them are raped, fall into the hands of traffickers, die at the border or disappear.

Refugees spend the last night hiding in empty buildings or houses in northern Serbia, 15 minutes from the border on foot. As they charge their phones in a small generator, they send their family members the latest messages “even if it’s a lie, we tell them we’re always okay so they don’t worry,” says a young woman.

Khalid will try to cross the border for the sixth time. “The last time I came to The Game some cops broke my nose, threw me into the river without clothes ‘go to your home!’ As they screamed at me.” Although it is illegal, there are daily speedy expulsions to Serbia, which has suffered a blow to the knee. Furthermore, Hungary has also recently legalised the detention of refugees throughout the country, one of the most well-known measures as Schengen 2.0.

Frustration, nervousness and hope mix in the last mile of the race. They are aware of what can happen in the next few hours. According to his remarks, at least nine people have died on the border with Hungary (apart from the testimonies of the refugees, it is impossible to know the figure).For those who do not have a travel card, these are the cruel rules of the game of
entry into the European Union.

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