Austria's Faymann likens Orban's refugee policies to Nazi deportations
Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters
BERLIN/NICKELSDORF, Austria (Reuters) - Austria's chancellor criticized Hungary for its handling of the refugee crisis on Saturday, likening the country's policies to Nazi deportations during the Holocaust as refugees complained of their treatment in the eastern European country.
Thousands of refugees are crossing the border to Hungary, an eastern outpost of Europe's passport-free Schengen zone, every day, and many are traveling on to the continent's more prosperous west and north in what is Europe's worst refugee crisis since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
Refugees continued to stream into Germany, favored for its generous welfare system and relatively liberal asylum laws. At Munich's main train station around 9,200 arrived by early evening and authorities said they would struggle to cope.
In an interview with German news magazine Der Spiegel, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann likened Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's treatment of refugees to the Nazis' deportation of Jews and others to concentration camps.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/austrias-faymann-likens-orbans-refugee-policies-nazi-deportations-145048066.html
Note: Long Article
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)trying to say, he needs to stop.
starroute
(12,977 posts)Footage has emerged of migrants being thrown bags of food at a Hungarian camp near the border with Serbia.
An Austrian woman who shot the video said the migrants were being treated like "animals". Human Rights Watch's emergency director said people were being held like "cattle in pens".
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/11/refugees-roszke-hungary-police-food-camp
The footage, posted on the YouTube channel of the Austrian politician Alexander Spritzendorfer, and supposedly taken by his wife, Michaela Spritzendorfer-Ehrenhauser, is said to have been taken at a refugee camp in Röszke on Hungarys border with Serbia, where tens of thousands of refugees have gathered. . . .
In Hungary, Orbán defended police in remarks to reporters, claiming refugees had rebelled against Hungarian authorities, seized railway stations and rejected registration in the past few days.
Considering that we are facing a rebellion by illegal migrants, police have done their job in a remarkable way, without using force, he said, adding that from 15 September, when tough laws on immigration take effect, those who cross Hungarys border illegally will be arrested.
Link to video (for some reason, it doesn't embed.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=zxLnlpFATnE
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)beginning. It will define us all as wankers before its over.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)There's a lot of processing that probably still needs to happen there...