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but you know. it was total chaos. stuff. but what. he did was. when the crisis was only just beginning. the. refugees continued to pour into bangladesh by river and by sea. on foot go to come on everyone take their back so here's your set up and. most of the refugees are women the elderly and children. and they all wear the same blank expression of traumatized people. they killed my father mother brother they're all dead. they cut his throat were you
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good who did they kill the way i started. out my son he was six years old. everyone has a story to tell but the stories are all similar. all the way hinge a tale of the same massacres not a spontaneous attack in the heat of the moment but a planned offensive. it appears to be a systematic strategy by me on mars military which rules the land. in the wrong one . first the soldiers came in and told us to leave our village that the they told us to go away but we didn't want to leave it was our home we wanted to stay in our village to get out of anything else only over our dead body. we set. it on the door
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they were turned and took the leaders of our village and killed them and they killed twenty men and one day out of that i didn't matter. you know that in our village the soldiers took men away in groups of five or six to go to them together and they killed them either with a bullet to the head or by slitting their throats and then they threw them into a ditch i wouldn't you got a blood line and i knew i knew who were doing. after that the soldiers attacked the women and children. the policy of terror designed it seems to drive they were injured away permanently. as one of their little i.d.'s a boy like desolated they catch up to them and slit his throat and then toss him aside the argument a. little little male and the women were also treated savagely when they slit the throats of the oldest ones the youngest the most beautiful were caught and rate over and over every little bit.
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thank. the united nations has called it textbook ethnic cleansing. after days of searching norma hamad has found a place for himself and his family it's just outside the camps which are expanding all the time. but i'm not going to go down. together with his brothers and cousins he's now building a shelter to house them all. this land belongs to the elderly man over there no zero say. he said to me if you're from me and mine and i've been persecuted and you can stay on my land. this man has given us permission to set up a place to live here. and so then you need more robust here.
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knows here hussein is a respected man in the village there are now one hundred range of families living on his land. and. my land extends all the way over there and on the other side back there to the end and then there up to the hill in the mud the we're not. there to look at one of course i can't promise anything will grow here but the government wants to help so i thought i should help too. i'm not looking to earn anything from them they have nothing one and don't know where to go and they've come a long way so if course i will help and a lot will reward me a little it's. not the. norm mohammed's family finally have a roof over their heads. for the first time in many days they can rest.
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now they also have a chance to talk about the future they still don't know whether they'll ever be able to return home. if. i was i mean if myanmar accept their own enjoy and recognizes us. then maybe we will return one day. but if they continue to view us as bengali living illegally in their country. then we can never go back. to them as a wrangler reminded me that i could have already been there. you know. where the question is do we fight or not but how can we they are in power we don't stand a chance. no we will not go to war. and persecuted many people have lost relatives some of lost mothers fathers children i myself have lost a son if we go to war. myanmar as well as the money but are they willing to die
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here to overthrow which is. better than most of the reindeer only want to live in peace. but many of the refugees are willing to grasp at whatever options are possible. to get here some are taking advantage of the desperate situation offering a little help to secure the gratitude of these vulnerable people. these men say they travel halfway across the country to offer support to their persecuted brethren. there are members of half has not islam a very influential islamist organization in bangladesh going to. their radical muslims who promote the strict segregation of women and the death penalty for
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anyone found guilty of blasphemy this man is a religious teacher for the group he organized the trip bringing thirty five men with him a team of rather. good if you'd like to go to the ok be patient just wait a minute. this morning he's giving out cough medicine to the hungry refugees. the doctors also what about you what's your problem here ok the kids are going to we have to eat and we're hungry he's got a call yes. like with the yeah i would give him one spoonful three times a day and i think that in the coming days see the or hindu crisis as a good opportunity to increase their political influence i need to have money to. come and go i'm going to. have loved it at his house we're saying to the government that if you don't have the courage to tackle this problem we'll do it we'll find you young fighters give them weapons and training camps i'm not. we like all
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citizens are ready to go to war against me on the corner we demand on songs hoochie be heavy get to it up it doesn't happen again are they all ready to go to war you jones will learn soon now that was over. a little further on we find another group of activists from the same organization with the right that ok you come here we go. again with below that amount of honor the leader of the group is looking for new recruits so he's here to help these people in need. of a four year revenue move along that's a no no no go away. i want to know if as a day islam plans to use this operation to appeal for donations among its supporters i was. going about as i said go away that's enough so i don't plan. on it most of the money he's handing out is damaged and wouldn't be accepted by traders here in reality he doesn't really care about the fate of the range it.
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was. the target really don't you the good the little those lined up on the little green get it but there are hundreds of thousands of our hands up if they stay here unemployment will go up and if we have more unemployment we'll have more theft burglary was murder it was around us and spread to the entire country i mean they look a little bit better than the best for them so we don't want them here long term a little good at the job enough to do what we need to get them back to their own country to get out what kind of look at the top of a dozen or the authorities in bangladesh take a similar view they're worried that there are hinges might end up staying in bangladesh long term. this is a public announcement. mobile courts will be set up to pass sentence on all those who give accommodation to their anger. however many refugees that may be. right
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although the word is prohibited and it will be punished severely may or be broken joe will be arrested convicted and deported this is on order of the municipal authorities and the mayor. you can't gather here we don't want any crowds here. every day soldiers and police officers go into the villages looking for him just to send them away they want them all together in the camps. are going to be going for him backs in aiding the children of their religion here they have to go to a new camp there's one being set up right now it's on the other side of the road. going to work out. for me. and one. over half
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a million people have sought refuge here so far half of me and mars' range of population. for the refugees it's the start of a new kind of life where it's all about surviving in the hope that one day they'll be reunited with their missing family members. i guess my child is still there yes and turned up with one of his last and more. to return home as recognized citizens in their own country that's the dream of nearly everyone here is good yes i like the international community finds a solution we can go home out of that right but without that they would just kill us we've lost everything paul we want is justice only justice for you.
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join the fight. thank you. rick. thank you have to be living in the digital age. coming up the best cities for startups and unconventional sidles up and museums with virtual art but first. winning votes on the internet these days election campaigning also happens online political parties use social media to try and sway voters but are people's decisions actually influenced this way. germany's green party coordinated strategies for their most recent election campaign here at the headquarters in berlin in the final weeks before the election. advertising
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about half of their total advertising budget went towards online promotion. led the digital election campaign the last forecasts before the vote predicted a huge loss for his party. a free. fall. forward for. mohammed claims he has an uncle's waiting for him in milan he wants to join him as soon as possible. many boys plan their flight just like mohammed but their journey is ended prematurely due to a lack of funds misinformation or do you b.s. contacts. phone many of those who managed to push on the come stranded in
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rome thousands of migrants pass through tammany station illegal. it's on their way across europe. unaccompanied minors live hit the months sometimes years like mohammed most are from egypt they've absconded from the initial reception centers originally in order to make their way to northern europe. in rome many of them make a living from drug dealing or prostitution. for ages fourteen and from egypt he slipped away from a reception center in sicily and came to rome. i live on the streets i do stuff like sell drugs. with. my supposed to do. you know. what i had. you know in the school there are grown ups who deliberately approach minors who don't say what they want right away. they'll approach
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a minor an ask him if he's willing to go with them and do certain things the kid goes with them because he needs the money but trust as you have. he goes with the grown up and has sex with him for money you know it all happens within the side of the police they see it but they pretend they don't know what's going on. fareed came ashore in sicily a year ago he left there because he wanted to go to germany. i mean the thirty kilometer fence separates macedonia from greece it's designed to stop the migrants crossing the border here you know the route is very complicated but if we cross here someone may see us i mean if not we carry on and get caught a bit farther on and beaten up. there so you damaged our barbed wire fence and entered the country illegally. and they had. me in someone's.
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home besides. it takes forever to cut through the barbed wire doesn't as well and you will need to walk for a whole night to reach the place where the fence comes to an end. i'm odd walk to the end of the fence too and then carried on through the woods and over the mountains and i know. i will go the same way i'm intimating and i guess if the fence wasn't so long the traffickers would use this route as i need only look. here gads talk. what a horrible situation. people pluck up their courage. and are instantly caught by the police. we take a walk around the camp the peaceful atmosphere is deceptive. one
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man from afghanistan spent two or three days following a gun around and he grabbed her and dragged her into his tent but the police. a friend of mine was attacked i took his side and wanted to settle the argument because i'm friends with both sides but then i got badly hurt my arm was injured my back my legs and they even hit me on the head that kind of thing often happened several times a day here in the camp. twenty people beat up a seventeen year old little. girl wanted to go to the toilet which is unisex. a man followed her and. tried to rape her also but. there are fights every night they pull iron bars out of the bedsteads or pick up long wooden sticks and fight each other i was once myself given a beating by ten syrians. like. me lad wants to leave because he's
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frightened violence towards the weak is common place here so we say our goodbyes with the feeling that we're leaving him to his fate. mohammed and his friends have it's gone dead from the reception facility the long overdue at the camp when the bus ticket tanya sets off on its roughly one hundred kilometer journey but none of the police units patrolling in front of the camp seem to be looking for them. we're going to milan. first we want to learn the language. we want to go to school and get an education. and then we'll get our papers and go to work. the boys have come from the initial reception facility they're probably not registered yet. if they drop out of sight no one will ever find out
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nobody knows who they are and who is really waiting for them in milan. tanya the bus that's meant to take them to milan doesn't leave for another five alice they'll have to wait until then and hope no police officer catches them here . it's a good thing we got out of courts all of us want to go to the police officer grab the other could easily have called us to iowa and. nobody cares about. can you carry the baggage i think carrying it since we left the station.
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they were treated to a little square in the old town and wait. but they. don't want us to work. on our farm and. we had some land. and i always used to help my grandfather. into trees. grain. i like being a farmer. as in call the law i grew vegetables and water them. that's all well you. know how i love sitting in the fields under the trees.
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what about the children who have finally arrived at their destination most of those we met wanted to go to germany in two thousand and fourteen a new police unit was set up in bremen it specializes in investigating cases involving unaccompanied child refugees. darkly thank you raymond has a lot of traffic involving under age refugees two thousand one hundred a currently registered in agreement. between ten and twenty percent of committed an offense and i'm thinking the early days of two thousand and fourteen we had the refugees moving to various centers braman in particular turned out to be such a center. as i see it if you take the proportion of these miners in relation to the population roman has more than three hundred percent which exceeds its so-called quota. were mainly dealing with cases of theft these are distractions thefts where
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mobile phones and wallets and suchlike are stolen. but we're gradually ramping up into rob where violence is you know i still owe our stolen goods. i'm. good this. routine inspections at bremen smain station a popular meeting place for unaccompanied minors. the way you'd like to see your identification play. you write. a many of them have already committed offenses and a well known. into the investigative. summit being reported as missing by the reception center the unit is also responsible for those cases. as it's come to her face because quite often spend the night away from their accommodation generally they'll be with other young people in another accommodation by among the
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caregivers will often not notice because they'll have to climb through the window or something like that at night feinstein's day or they spend their time in the apartments are others like themselves who are better established and that's why they're hard to locate. because to some been reported missing you really belong in another accommodation and they say you're missing they're looking for you . since it. seems. to me. that ultimately we'll check to see if they're missing and where they should be. and then phone their social workers to tell them they've been found and then they're picked up from the police station and returned to the care of the social workers or caseworkers particularly the ones born in two thousand and four they're just twelve or thirteen of course. but the reception centers are overwhelmed caring
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for so many youngsters. ok ok thanks bye. still was that a slice of pizza that was mr peters from the children's and young person's emergency care service. he was asking about the two of them and watch them both put in a taxi and taken to dawson. yes and they'll get out of the next corner as it's. been we didn't hear from him and if we tell them during questioning look you're running out of luck we'll be putting you in jail. you carry on like this then they disappear a few weeks later they move on and i assume the same thing happens in other states with us and on the longer. they move aimlessly from state to state even after their arrival in germany the destination they longed to reach these two children traveled
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to germany from morocco via malaya the same journey hamada and his brother true enough. i wanted to cross the border. actually stay here and waste away you know you. said oh my i'm looking for some paths for. here. how much are they fifty different. ways ok they're good pets no keep the cold out. we'd like to film amada and the others playing or going to the beach but we realize that's quite impossible when we approach the children to understand how they live and we come across on images like these they have no organized daily lives no childhood or adolescence in the way
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most of us are familiar with. in malaya we meet jose palace on since one thousand nine hundred nine he and his organization protein have campaigned for the protection of child migrants in malaysia the loss of your birth and you know the solution is to develop a standard of care for these children for most of the children will stay at the reception center if they're sent to school given papers and treated like children when you otherwise they run away. but that's exactly what the administration in malaya is trying to achieve. it treats the children in a way that makes them run away it sees the children as enemies. but they aren't enemies they're children and the solution is to give them the attention they need in spain as well as an end in germany.
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surely it can't be true that europe which promotes human rights can't take care of little children. and what's happening at the moment is terrible. to them and look at the bus and. later despite the constant police patrols we managed to arrange to meet. in the old town after his failed escape attempt a modest come to an important decision for himself and his brother. it's better if we get out together or if he goes first. he stays here on his own no one to look after him and buys him. if i'm not here i'll start smoking weed or sniffing glue so we. always make sure he doesn't do that. i can't simply go off and leave him on his own and. it's good that i stay here.
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and i'm worried about both of us. if i grow older and have no education and no work will be lost. i want to work i don't want to sit around here doing nothing i need to work. a lot of facilities foster families sheltered group homes all of europe managed to safeguard the wellbeing of unaccompanied minus from them we know that child centered care can be the key to the integration. but thousands of children are still being let down why is the no institution responsible for overseeing the reception centers in malaya sicily and greece in search of answers we head for brussels for a meeting with stuff vice president of the european parliament. even. at a european level we establish the framework of the standards if you like for the joint asylum policy which states that juta their special situation miners should receive
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special treatment about the execution minister to have enforcement says itself it's carried out by the member states european union i see no institution that could undertake it unless someone comes forward to appeal to the commission and say a member state has breached its european treaty obligations then the european commission could launch and proceedings. i seriously doubt whether that would actually help the children and adolescents on the ground these are little and political proceedings but tangible assistance has to be given locally i know that sounds as if we sit down and brussels and discuss it and the european level says that needs to happen its member state level it sounds like passing the buck but it's not meant to. in this case where her family might be a town that we don't know the local concerns and. local authorities know
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but we have no idea here in brussels that's why disappointing is that i sound i believe it is not the job of the european union to oversee matters in detail. so the european institutions can't do anything for these children no one in brussels checks whether for example the aid money at the reception centers in sicily is used to care for the children the purposes. of the national nor european institutions monitor. how kara's at the reception center in malaya deal with the moroccan children or inspect the conditions in which child migrants and living in the refugee camps in greece abuse is commonplace then how would these experiences color the later lives of these children what kind of adult europeans will they grow up to be. meanwhile mohammed and his friends sitting on the bus to milan other boys on the same bus also traveling alone.
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why do we have to go on a boat again plus mohammed shortly before we take the ferry from sicily to the mainland he's worried about being taken back to egypt. the bus route from sicily to milan is frequently used by a scolding migrants but the fifteen hour journey passes without a single police check. mohammed and his friends have almost reached milan. weeks later we managed to talk to mohammed uncle on the phone the boy is fine he says he's living in a supervised hostel in milan and will soon be going to school. and
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his brother a still image. they haven't given up hope of making it to germany but one thing is certain definitely be staying together.
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the u.n. says it has received pledges of roughly three hundred forty million dollars to help or hinder refugees more than half a million row hinge of muslims have fled to bangladesh from violence in myanmar sent.

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