Un 'shocked' Over Clashes In Hungary

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34275400

Not surprising given the appalling scenes I saw on last nights news....firing CS gas and water cannon at children !

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said such treatment of asylum seekers was "unacceptable". On the Today Program this morning, a representative for the UN said that Hungary had violated the Geneva Convention with its brutal treatment of these refugees.

Even Serbia, not a nation that has the proudest record when it comes to human rights agrees. "Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic accused Hungary of being "brutal and "non-European".

Contrast this brutal treatment, with the actions of the Croatian Government, which is treating these people with respect, not brutal oppression.

[New Judge]

Quite so, jourdain. And just don't understand why many people do not get it. Most telling of all was the episode where the small boy, his mother and siblings were drowned as they made their way ina rubber dinghy from Bodrum to Kos. This was flashed around the world to demonstrate the plight of these hapless "refugees" and was feted as a "pivotal moment" in the crisis.

What was not explained was that the familyhad lived in Turkey for three years and that the father acually had a job there. The public is being bullied by people such as the UN's Secretary-General into accepting that this invasion of Europe is a humanitarian crisis resulting from the civil war in Syria. It is not. It is not. Almost all of these people simply do not like it where they have found themselves.

Incidentally, I notice tonight that the Croatians may now be regretting the warm welcome they suggested they would extend to th emigrants a few days ago:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34286432

[ladybirder]

//EU leaders are to hold an emergency summit next week to discuss the crisis.//

An EMERGENCY summit NEXT week for crying out loud. Take your time why don't you!! Disgraceful. Not fit for purpose.

[jourdain2]

To be flippant: it seems to come down to 'We few, we gallant few'. I also do not comprehend the willful blindness of those led by the nose by the media.
Going to bed now. Glad you thought my metaphor was apt.

[askyourgran]

It's the fact that they are mostly young men who are rampaging and demanding their human rights?? They are the ones who should be herded back from whence they came to rebuild and fight for their homeland.

[Togo]

Just remember the old grainy black and white pictures from WW2. ALL the refugees were children, women, and the elderly, mainly women pushing their worldly good in carts and prams. The ancient societies took into refuge only the women and children for good reason. We have learned nothing it seems

[Khandro]

And the real knock-on effect is.....
Thanks to the stupidity of, Chancellor Merkel and her completely useless interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere's encouragement to come, and without any plan what to do when they did, thousands arrived through Austria to Germany down south in Munich. The authorities there, not knowing what to do, put them on trains to other German cities, one being Stuttgart, where a repeat performance took place, and at 4:00am two nights ago, 600 were dropped off in a small town, population 4,000 five miles from me, and they too have nowhere for them. My village (population 350) has no spare accommodation, neither have any others, so what now Mrs Merkel?