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September 28, 2015

Tens of Thousands of Refugees Continue Trek Across Europe 
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In Europe, 12,000 refugees fleeing violence in their home countries of
Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Nigeria, Eritrea and other countries
crossed the border on foot between Hungary and Austria Saturday. This
comes as thousands more refugees arrived on Greece's mainland over the
weekend. Meanwhile, 17 people drowned Sunday when their boat sank off
the Turkish coast en route to Greece. Nearly 500,000 refugees have
reached Europe this year. António Guterres, the U.N. high commissioner
for refugees, said Saturday attention should have been paid to the
refugee crisis earlier.

António Guterres: "Well, you know, unfortunately, only when the poor
enter the halls of the rich do the rich notice that the poor exist. And
indeed, until we had this massive movement into Europe, there was no
recognition in the developed world of how serious the refugee crisis
was. If in the past we had more massive support to the refugees and more
massive support to those countries in the developing world that have
been receiving them and protecting them, this would not have happened."

 

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