Reuters: Refugees tear through police lines at Macedonian border
Thousands of migrants stormed across Macedonia's border on Saturday, overwhelming security forces who threw stun grenades and lashed out with batons before apparently abandoning a bid to stem their flow through the Balkans to western Europe.
Some had spent days in the open with little or no food or water after Macedonia on Thursday declared a state of emergency and sealed its borders to migrants, many of them refugees from war in Syria and other conflicts in the Middle East.
But by nightfall on Saturday, thousands had crossed the frontier, milling around the border town of Gevgelija where busses had converged from all over the country and trains left in quick succession to take them north to the next leg of their journey through Serbia.
Update: Italy coastguard: 3,000 migrants rescued in one day in Mediterranean -- The Guardian
WNU Editor: There are literally tens of millions in Africa, the Middle East, and western Asia who now want to flee to Europe believing that a better life awaits them .... and Europe is not even remotely ready for this wave of humanity. Here is an easy prediction, incidents like this one are going to escalate .... Dresden riots: Protesters in Germany attack refugee buses shouting 'foreigners out' (The Independent).
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For these people, refugees with nothing, to move such great distances one must think that governments are assisting them with food, water, and other logistics. One does not simply take a stroll from Syria or Iraq to the EU without such support along the way. Has anybody seen articles on which countries are allowing safe passage through their territory, providing food, water and transportation, and essentially allowing the EU to be flooded with a human wave? Is there any hidden agenda behind allowing such mass migrations to take place through their territory? It is difficult to believe that every intermediate country on the way to the EU has no control of its borders. Especially Turkey.
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Guess those Europeans won't be haughtily lecturing the U.S. about its' southern border anymore.
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" and essentially allowing the EU to be flooded with a human wave? "
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