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Tuesday 12 April 2016

In the unlivable land

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#Idomeni. A woman and a child. In the unlivable land of razor wire, clashes, rubber bullets, tear gas: image via Valerio De Cesaris @ValerioDeC, 11 April 2016 


The mountain-summits sleep, glens, cliffs and caves
   Are silent -- all the black earth's reptile brood --
   The bees -- the wild beasts of the mountain wood;
In depths beneath the dark red ocean's waves
   Its monsters rest, whilst wrapt in bower and spray
   Each bird is hush'd that stretch'd its pinions to the day.

Alcman (7th c. BC): Fragment 89, translated by Thomas Campbell in 'Lectures on Poetry: Lecture V. Part I, Greek Poetry', The New Monthly Magazine, 2 (1821)
 


 #Idomeni A refugee walks along train tracks at the camp near the border btwn Greece and Macedonia By Kostas Tsironis: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 11 April 2016


#Greece - Migrants and Greek riot police clash at Greece-Macedonia Border. By @Kilicbil: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 11 April 2016 


GREECE - Migrants face Macedonian soldiers at border fence as they protest to reopen border near Idomeni. By @Kilicbil: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 April 2016


Migrants show empty canisters lobbed by Macedonian soldiers as they protest to reopen border By @Kilicbil: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 April 2016 


#Idomeni Migrant crisis tensions rise after police fired tear gas at hundreds of people stranded I By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Stephanie Beauge @sbeaugeAFP, 11 April 2016


GREECE- Flames rise after a fight between Kurds and Arab Syrians at the makeshift camp near Idomeni. By @Kilicbil: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 April 2016


Refugees and migrants protest to reopen the border near their makeshift camp #Idomeni  I By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Stephanie Beauge @sbeaugeAFP, 11 April 2016
 

GREECE - A man calls to migrants to walk through the torn down wire fencing along border near Idomeni. By @Kilicbil: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 April 2016


Refugees in #Idomeni say: "Today - we either break the fence or we die" more ppl arriving all with bags @Ruptly
: image via Katica Djurovic @zoontangmarg, 9 April 2016


Teargas fired by Macedonian border police as refugees march on the border in #Idomeni: image via Anna McKelvey @japanna, 10 April 2016



#Idomeni clashes @Ruptly stun grenades and tear gas thousands of refugees against Macedonian police: image via Katica Djurovic @zoontangmarg, 10 April 2016


 Chaos in #Idomeni as police clash with refugees @Ruptly: image via Katica Djurovic @zoontangmarg, 10 April 2016



 Stones and teargas between #refugeesGR and FYROM police in #Idomeni @Faloulah: image via Dimitris Tosidis @d_tosidis, 10 April 2016  Greece


Teargas keeps on coming #RefugeesGR way inside Greek territory @d_tosidis: image via Marianna Karakoulaki @Faloulah, 10 April 2016



The amount of teargas by the Macedonian police is unbelievable! #RefugeesGR @d_tosidis @JohnPapanikos: image via Marianna Karakoulaki @Faloulah, 10 April 2016
 
 
Children once again hearing sound of guns, blasts and helicopters they ran from. Shame on us #Idomeni #refugees: image via Lighthouse Relief @LighthouseRR, 10 April 2016 



LIVE: Protesters at #Idomeni have dragged a train wagon in front of the police bus. Tensions are high.: image via MSF Sea Verified account @MSF Sea, 11 April 2016


The day after #Idomeni protests, #RedCross is still assisting people stranded at the border
: image via IFRC Verified account @Federation, 11 April 2016 



GREECE - A child sits in a tent at dusk at the makeshift camp near Idomeni. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via AFP news agency Verified account @AFP, 6 April 2016

 

GREECE - A child sits in a tent at dusk at the makeshift camp near Idomeni. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via AFP news agency Verified account @AFP, 6 April 2016
 

GREECE - A child sits in a tent at dusk at the makeshift camp near Idomeni. By @Kilicbil #AFPl: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 12 April 2016 
 

#Idomeni. Where European values ​​are sinking: image via Valerio De Cesaris @ValerioDC, 11 April 2016

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