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Europe

Stuck on Lesbos, Afghans Demand Equal Treatment as Refugees

2015-10-12

What the clever Angela Merkel triggered. It's not just Afghans, of course.

[AnNahar] In cloistered meetings miles away from the combat zone, European governments have determined that Syrians fleeing their country's civil war should be given precedence over other exiles seeking refugee protection.

"We are numerous and this gives us strength," he adds.

But on the dock of Mytilene, the port capital of Greece's Lesbos island, 22-year-old Sajjad wants to tell them they are wrong, and demands equal treatment.

"Of course I am a refugee. Your governments should go to Afghanistan if they think people can live there," he says.

Posted by:trailing wife

#6 Air drop them back into Afghanistain. Let them buy parachutes with the cash they've saved up for the smugglers.

Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-10-12 14:25

#5 It's only fair to give preference to everybody. Just sayin'.
/going along with the irrational thinking of the times.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-10-12 12:18

#4 How about giving preference to Christians?

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-10-12 09:27

#3 You could offer them free/low-cost fake Syrian passports

Me, and my big mouth :-(

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-12 03:10

#2 we would really like to make them flee ours

You could offer them free/low-cost fake Syrian passports. And maybe Swedish lessons.

Posted by: SteveS 2015-10-12 03:04

#1 Syrians fleeing their country's civil war should be given precedence over other exiles seeking refugee protection.

How about Palestinians who, after all, descendants of Syrians who left their country for Mandate Palestine, and we would really like to make them flee ours?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-12 02:48

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