Thousands of weary refugees have
continued to share desperate stories of survival as they make their way
across Europe’s borders, as European Union leaders ramp up the debate
about how many people each member state should accept.
On Hungary’s border with Serbia, fear and
fatigue have overcome many of the refugees, as Budapest prepared on
Thursday to deploy its military to bolster its border and stop people
from crossing.
The landlocked central European state is
also building a fence to keep the refugees out, but it did not stop
hundreds of refugees from scaling the fences and making their way into
the country on Wednesday.
Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom, reporting
from the border town of Roszke in Hungary, said some refugees are
claiming that they have been abused by authorities.
“For
many, the borders hardly matter any more, because it’s their pain that
can’t be escaped,” our correspondent said, as he followed several
refugees, who were making their way to the border by foot.
For Sabah, a Syrian refugee trying to get
to Austria, every day is like torture as she makes her way into
Hungary. She told Al Jazeera how she and her husband were beaten by
police in Greece.
“When my husband and I got to Greece, a
policeman there beat us. He hit my husband and me with a metal stick. I
was three months pregnant. I lost my baby.”
Human Rights Watch said Hungary has become a place of humiliation for Syrian refugees.
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