Migrants keep burning down their own refugee camps in Greece and other nations

Allah's Willing Executioners

Migrants have now burned down significant portions of their camps in three separate incidents following riots and ethnic clashes, and despite Greece dealing with coronavirus lockdowns and a crashing economy, Amnesty International is nowcalling for Greek authorities to evacuate migrantsfrom Greek islands camps to the mainland.

The incidents on the Greek islands follow a long history of migrants starting fires in their own camps, both in Greece and other European nations.

On April 26 and the other on April 27, three separate fires ripped through the Vathy camp on the Greek island of Samos, leaving tents and containers destroyed and 200 residents homeless. Greek authorities say the fires starteddue to clashes between people living inside the camp, and ethnic tensions may have been a factor in those clashes.

Unconfirmed reports from Ekathimerini alsoindicatethat migrants fueled the second fire in an effort to be taken…

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