Thousands of refugees flow through EU borders

The Punch -

Thousands of weary refugees have continued to share desperate stories of survival as they make their way across Europe’s borders, as European Union leaders ramp up the debate about how many people each member state should accept.


On Hungary’s border with Serbia, fear and fatigue have overcome many of the refugees, as Budapest prepared on Thursday to deploy its military to bolster its border and stop people from crossing.
The landlocked central European state is also building a fence to keep the refugees out, but it did not stop hundreds of refugees from scaling the fences and making their way into the country on Wednesday.
Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom, reporting from the border town of Roszke in Hungary, said some refugees are claiming that they have been abused by authorities.

“For many, the borders hardly matter any more, because it’s their pain that can’t be escaped,” our correspondent said, as he followed several refugees, who were making their way to the border by foot.
For Sabah, a Syrian refugee trying to get to Austria, every day is like torture as she makes her way into Hungary. She told Al Jazeera how she and her husband were beaten by police in Greece.
“When my husband and I got to Greece, a policeman there beat us. He hit my husband and me with a metal stick. I was three months pregnant. I lost my baby.”

Human Rights Watch said Hungary has become a place of humiliation for Syrian refugees.