22.02.2021, Spiegel

Dangerous Seek-and-Hide-Game at the border

Families try to cross the Bosnian-Croatian border into the EU. Children have to watch their parents being humiliated - and re-enact the experience in refugee camps. They don't play "cops and robbers," but migrants being chased by border police: Children from refugee families stranded in Bosnia-Herzegovina sometimes imitate "The Game" - the game that is everyday life for them. That's how the asylum seekers refer to their attempts to cross the border into Croatia to enter the EU. In the process, most are repeatedly brutally stopped and forced back by border guards - and some children have to watch as their parents are robbed, beaten and humiliated, or are subjected to violence themselves. read more

Language(s): Deutsch / German
Region(s): Balkanstaaten