The Greek Solution

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TGLS
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The Greek Solution

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/world/europe/greece-migrants-abandoning-sea.html
RHODES, Greece — The Greek government has secretly expelled more than 1,000 refugees from Europe’s borders in recent months, sailing many of them to the edge of Greek territorial waters and then abandoning them in inflatable and sometimes overburdened life rafts.
Instead, masked Greek officials transferred them to two vessels that ferried them out to sea before dropping them on rafts at the Turkish maritime border, she and other survivors said.

Amid choppy waves, the group, which included two babies, was forced to drain the raft using their hands as water slopped over the side, they said.
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Re: The Greek Solution

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Oh right. Sometimes I forget we aren't the only country committing genocide against refugees.
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Re: The Greek Solution

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Fuzzy, since when is deporting people genocide? Besides, shouldn't you want people kept out of a white supremacist country? :lol:
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Re: The Greek Solution

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As to the original post... That sucks. Not taking care of other countries' problems I can see. But this sounds more like an attempt at mass murder.
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