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Children in Greek migrant camps attempting self-murder amid rising desperation
- Updated: March 16, 2017
ATHENS: Children stranded in Greek migrant camps are slicing themselves, attempting self-murder and regulating drugs to cope with “endless misery,” general gift Save a Children pronounced on Thursday.
A news recently noted one year given a European Union struck a understanding with Turkey to branch a upsurge of refugees and migrants to Greek islands.
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“Their mental health is fast deteriorating due to a conditions combined as a outcome of this deal,” a news said, adding conditions in Greek camps had led to a arise in self-harm, aggression, stress and depression.
“One of a many intolerable and abominable developments Save a Children staff have witnessed is a boost in self-murder attempts and self-harm among children as immature as nine.”
One 12-year-old child filmed his self-murder try after witnessing others perplexing to finish their lives, it said.
In 2015, a million refugees and migrants from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and over reached Europe, channel over to Greek islands from Turkey. The upsurge has all though stopped given a EU-Ankara understanding came into force on Mar 20, 2016.
Under a deal, anyone who crosses into Greece though papers can be deported to Turkey unless they validate for haven in Greece. But prolonged haven procedures and a outrageous reserve have stranded 14,000 haven seekers on 5 Greek islands, double a capacity.
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Save a Children described conditions in packed camps as “degrading” and “detention-like”, forcing asylum-seekers to quarrel for simple necessities such as blankets, a dry place to sleep, food, comfortable H2O and entrance to healthcare.
“The vital conditions have done them remove wish and done them feel like animals and objects – not accurately human, though defective tellurian beings,” a news quoted a staff member of Praksis, the partner organisation, as saying.
Children had mislaid all wish that they will leave Greece and became desirous as good as verbally and physically aggressive, it said. Others incited to drugs as a approach of coping.
“The conditions are branch children from immature people who are ease and full of dreams to people who wish to mistreat property, others and themselves,” another Praksis member was quoted as saying.
“They contend that they feel bad, afterwards someone offers them a tablet and promises it will make them feel better, and afterwards it does and they start holding drugs.”