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Afghan refugees hope to come to the EU despite pushbacks
Here people hope for the right moment and a better future. Hundreds of Afghan migrants, including women and children, have settled in a makeshift tent camp near the border with Croatia. Your firm goal is to get into the European Union. And that despite rejection and deportation at the border to Croatia, as the 18-year-old Afghan Rustam recently told us in Velika Kladusa in Bosnia-Herzegovina: AFGHAN MIGRANT, RUSTAM: “If they deport you, they take your clothes, shoes, everything. And: they hit you pretty hard. I was taken 25 kilometers away and I am back here, to the camp. 25 kilometers. Without shoes. ” Croatia recently admitted that police had been involved in the forcible repulsion of migrants on the border with Bosnia after several media reports and the EU executive called for an investigation. The Danish Refugee Council, which monitors the borders as part of its humanitarian health and protection programs in Bosnia, recorded around 30,000 pushbacks by migrants from June 2019 to September 2021. Hector Carpintero, the local head of the organization in Sarajevo on Thursday: DANISH REFUGEE COUNCIL COUNTRY DIRECTOR, HECTOR CARPINTERO: “At the beginning of this year to date there have been 7,200 pushbacks. 25% of them were associated with excessive use of force and were registered by us. These include : Beatings, dog bites and loss of property. ” The Afghan refugees remain optimistic despite all the fancies. They are convinced that one day they will be able to wake up in one of the EU countries and no longer have to fall asleep in a tent in the cold in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
You are camping on the border of Bosnia-Herzegovina and want to go to Croatia.