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Refugee Crisis: Riot Police Lose Control In Croatia
“The police have completely lost control here…And this is happening in the European Union.” Channel 4 News' Jonathan Miller reports from Croatia as refugees and migrants rush through barricades.
15,000 Migrants Stranded in Croatia by Border Crackdown
By JOSEPH OROVIC and MATTHEW BRUNWASSERSEPT. 18, 2015
BELI MANASTIR, Croatia — At least 15,000 migrants found themselves all but trapped in Croatia on Friday, having been barred from Hungary, sent packing from Serbia and unable to move on to Slovenia.
The human exodus was peaceful but miserable. Along the roads of eastern Croatia, the migrants’ detritus — abandoned blankets, torn clothing, empty cans of tuna — littered the highways.
Those who could afford to take a train, bus, van or taxi westward, toward the capital, Zagreb, or the border with Slovenia, did so; many others simply set out on foot.
On the side of a road outside the border town of Tovarnik, three young Iraqi men said they had spent two excruciating days there. “It was crowded, there was no food, no transport and nowhere to go,” said one of them, Ibrahim Yusuf, 25, a construction worker from Baghdad, eating chocolate wafers in the shade of a walnut tree. He said he was considering returning to Iraq and asked a reporter for directions back to Belgrade, Serbia.
The migrants have not only been trapped within borders. They were also caught in mass confusion, evidenced by heightening tensions among neighboring nations in a volatile region, incoherent national policies and the continuing failure of greater Europe to resolve the crisis.
More: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/world/europe/refugee-migrant-crisis-europe.html
By JOSEPH OROVIC and MATTHEW BRUNWASSERSEPT. 18, 2015
BELI MANASTIR, Croatia — At least 15,000 migrants found themselves all but trapped in Croatia on Friday, having been barred from Hungary, sent packing from Serbia and unable to move on to Slovenia.
The human exodus was peaceful but miserable. Along the roads of eastern Croatia, the migrants’ detritus — abandoned blankets, torn clothing, empty cans of tuna — littered the highways.
Those who could afford to take a train, bus, van or taxi westward, toward the capital, Zagreb, or the border with Slovenia, did so; many others simply set out on foot.
On the side of a road outside the border town of Tovarnik, three young Iraqi men said they had spent two excruciating days there. “It was crowded, there was no food, no transport and nowhere to go,” said one of them, Ibrahim Yusuf, 25, a construction worker from Baghdad, eating chocolate wafers in the shade of a walnut tree. He said he was considering returning to Iraq and asked a reporter for directions back to Belgrade, Serbia.
The migrants have not only been trapped within borders. They were also caught in mass confusion, evidenced by heightening tensions among neighboring nations in a volatile region, incoherent national policies and the continuing failure of greater Europe to resolve the crisis.
More: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/world/europe/refugee-migrant-crisis-europe.html
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Any at all? Anything? 
If I were them watching all of this unfold, I don't think I'd ever be able to forgive myself.
