Czech Cops Haul Refugees Off Trains to Germany and Write Numbers on Their Arms in Ink

[MattSh]

(ANTIMEDIA) United Kingdom — For most of us, the image of a serial number on a forearm conjures up indelible images of 1940s Germany, but it seems this is not the case for the Czech police, who adopted the controversial practice earlier this week.

As the immigration debate intensifies throughout Europe, police in the Southern Czech region of Moravia resorted to the method in an attempt to stem the tide of people fleeing war by heading to the E.U.

According to The Independent, during the early hours of Tuesday morning, over 200 people were arrested as their trains arrived from Austria and Hungary. The refugees were removed from the trains heading to Germany, detained, and flagged with identification numbers written on their arms with marker pens. Photographs in the Czech media showed police officers writing registration numbers on the arms of women and children among chaotic scenes of razor wire and makeshift camps.

“What never stops amazing me are people who look at the Holocaust and think that it only holds lessons for Germans & Jews,” European Media Director of Human Rights Watch Andrew Stroehlein said on Twitter.

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According to Czech media, after arrest, refugees are placed in secure institutions and believe it or not, are then required to pay for the privilege. Following a backlash of international criticism, the Czech Republic has since announced that it no longer plans to detain Syrian refugees trying to reach Germany, making it the latest country to abandon European asylum rules in the face of the global crisis.

Complete story at - http://theantimedia.org/czech-cops-haul-refugees-off-trains-to-germany-and-write-numbers-on-their-arms-in-ink/

More here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/czech-police-haul-migrants-off-trains-to-germany-and-write-numbers-on-their-arms-in-ink-10482651.html

[PatrickforO]

1. You know what pisses me off?

These refugees are human beings displaced by western policies and our fun little forever war.

But what makes me want to vomit is that while Germany has agreed to take 800,000 people in this year, the United States has grudgingly agreed to take in around 8,000.

8,000.

Hey, I got an idea! How about we END THE WARS IN THE MID-EAST, and focus on building up solar, wind, biomass and hydroelectric power infrastructure so we can be energy independent of the mid-east.

What these talking heads forget is that these millions of people fleeing our stupid wars just want to live.

[merrily]

2. Sanders warned de-stabilizing Iraq would de-stabilize the entire Middle East.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bernie+Sanders+Iraq+2002

It's not as though we had not been through it before.

And even

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And, as Hillary (and the NT) said, we harvest what we sow.

[bemildred]

3. This seems likely to increase dissension within the EU.

What is Ms Merkel going to do?

[MisterP]

4. not the first time they've gone all hilfswillig

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_wall

[dembotoz]

5. war and a really really really bad drought which pretty much ended lots of agriculture in syria

makes california look like a swamp

climate migration is gonna be a coming thing

[DirkGently]

6. What could possibly go wrong with that? n/t