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Stuck on Lesbos, Afghans Demand Equal Treatment as Refugees
| 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 2015-10-12 |
