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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Syrian refugees from the Kurdish region of Afrin have been detained in Hungary attempting to reach Germany, and spoke about their ordeal to Rudaw, saying Magyar authorities have so far been inhospitable and forced them into prisons and camps instead of allowing them to carry on their way.
“The people from Hungary are very selfish, even taxi drivers were not ready to carry us, saying ‘you are from Syria,’” said one woman stuck in a Hungarian refugee camp with her young family. “There was neither water nor food. They were laughing at us. Are we not human beings?”
“If we knew the corridor was like this, we would not come. We would not flee the conflict. It was better to die in the war than the situation we are suffering from now. We did not leave our country to see another calamity; we fled for our lives, for comfort,” said another woman.
Europe is currently facing a refugee crisis, as millions from the Middle East and Africa fleeing conflict and hardship at home seek safe haven in the EU. The so-called “Balkan route,” starting from countries in southeastern Europe into Hungary, is often used by refugees to reach wealthier Western European countries like Germany, France and the UK.
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