Amid Pledges, Life Remains Miserable for Greece's 'Hot Spot' Refugees

It was supposed to be a coordinated demonstration, but when they came to set fire to his tent, Ghebrekristos Tesfay and his friends resisted. “They did this out of sadness, and told us we must be united together,” said Tesfay, an Eritrean, of the attempts by other refugees in Moria camp on the Greek Island of Lesvos to protest the conditions they were living in. “But the last time the tents were burnt we got nothing, so we fought back,” he said. Having struggled with a migrant and...

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