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Heartbreaking images of the refugee crisis that's crippling Europe
Heartbreaking images of the refugee crisis that's crippling Europe
Charles ClarkSep 8, 2015, 18:21 IST
A girl cries after crossing Greece's border into Macedonia near Gevgelija, Macedonia, August 22, 2015. Thousands of rain-soaked migrants stormed across Macedonia's border on Saturday as police lobbed stun grenades and beat them with batons, struggling to enforce a decree to stem their flow through the Balkans to western Europe. Security forces managed to contain hundreds in no-man's land. But several thousand others - many of them Syrian refugees - tore through muddy fields to Macedonian territory after days spent in the open without access to shelter, food or water.REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski
Earlier this month, an image of a drowned Syrian toddler made the front pages of newspapers across Europe. The picture was emblematic of a crisis that has been plaguing the continent for years.
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This year, it's estimated that Germany will grant asylum to over 800,000 refugees. Hungary, by contrast, will build a fences to keep them out. And Britain is slowly starting to accept them in small numbers. Europe has become a continent divided.
As civil wars and conflict with the Islamic State (ISIS) ravage their home countries, desperate refugees see Europe as a beacon of hope where they can rebuild their lives.
