Syrian refugees: A catastrophe in numbers
HUNGARY
looks like i was/is PM Orbans fault for the behaviour towards the migrant refugees GOOGLE
Hungary's war on refugees - The Listening Post- (Lead)
Published on Sep 14, 2015
Risking everything to make it to Europe, thousands of terrified men, women and children have been arriving in Hungary after making a perilous journey across the Mediterranean.Seeking nothing but shelter from fighting, a vast number of them have been sent to camps surrounded by chain link fencing, barbed wire and patrolled with police dogs.For journalists covering the crisis, the harrowing pictures of refugees being held in squalid campgrounds, reminiscent to Nazi concentration camps, has been dominating newspaper headlines.Sparking debate over the Hungarian government's treatment of the refugees, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has lashed out at criticism against his rule.According to a recently leaked memo, Hungary's State TV was told by a government-appointed Media Authority to not broadcast images of children.An official reason given was to 'protect the children' but when the memo became public it was seen as a governmental effort to limit sympathy for the refugees. And as we all saw with the photo of three-year-old boy Aylan Kurdi, a single image really does have the power to change discourse, coverage and even policy. Discussing the media coverage of the refugee crisis are: Dan Nolan, a Budapest-based journalist; Tamas Bodoky, editor-in-chief of the online newspaper
atlatszo.hu; Peter Bouckaert, the emergency director at Human Rights Watch; and Sue Clayton, a professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths University, London.
anti migrant refugee asylum seeker group
pretty unfortunate
but can be expected from some quarters, just human nature ..
Italy's anti-refugee movement plays on local fears
Published on Sep 14, 2015
The arrival of refugees in Italy has led to division, both at a political and community level.While some Italian households are volunteering to take people in, some in the north say asylum-seekers will never be welcome.
Hungarians appear to be sympathetic to the refugees, not so there PM
Former Hungarian PM says refugee hardline is political
Published on Sep 13, 2015
Hungary has praised Germany's decision to implement border controls to stem the flow of refugees.
But a former Prime Minister has told Al Jazeera that current leader Victor Orban's hardline on refugees is purely for political gain.