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Little Tich

(6,171 posts) Sat Sep 12, 2015, 10:18 PM Sep 2015

Austria's Faymann likens Orban's refugee policies to Nazi deportations

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

BERLIN/NICKELSDORF, Austria (Reuters) - Austria's chancellor criticized Hungary for its handling of the refugee crisis on Saturday, likening the country's policies to Nazi deportations during the Holocaust as refugees complained of their treatment in the eastern European country.

Thousands of refugees are crossing the border to Hungary, an eastern outpost of Europe's passport-free Schengen zone, every day, and many are traveling on to the continent's more prosperous west and north in what is Europe's worst refugee crisis since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

Refugees continued to stream into Germany, favored for its generous welfare system and relatively liberal asylum laws. At Munich's main train station around 9,200 arrived by early evening and authorities said they would struggle to cope.

In an interview with German news magazine Der Spiegel, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann likened Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's treatment of refugees to the Nazis' deportation of Jews and others to concentration camps.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/austrias-faymann-likens-orbans-refugee-policies-nazi-deportations-145048066.html

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Austria's Faymann likens Orban's refugee policies to Nazi deportations (Original Post) Little Tich Sep 2015 OP

I think Austrians using the nazi word are asking for trouble. No matter what he's roguevalley Sep 2015 #1

Then better to say they're treating them like animals starroute Sep 2015 #2

There are ways to talk about this without calling up hitler. THis whole thing sucks and is only the roguevalley Sep 2015 #3

Austrians call themselves "Hitler's first victims" Recursion Sep 2015 #5

The Hungarians have behaved horribly. Orban is a fascist wannabe. n/t Comrade Grumpy Sep 2015 #4

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)

1. I think Austrians using the nazi word are asking for trouble. No matter what he's

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 10:59 PM

Sep 2015

trying to say, he needs to stop.

starroute

(12,977 posts)

2. Then better to say they're treating them like animals

Reply to roguevalley (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 11:19 PM

Sep 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34216883

Footage has emerged of migrants being thrown bags of food at a Hungarian camp near the border with Serbia.

An Austrian woman who shot the video said the migrants were being treated like "animals". Human Rights Watch's emergency director said people were being held like "cattle in pens".

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/11/refugees-roszke-hungary-police-food-camp

The footage, posted on the YouTube channel of the Austrian politician Alexander Spritzendorfer, and supposedly taken by his wife, Michaela Spritzendorfer-Ehrenhauser, is said to have been taken at a refugee camp in Röszke on Hungary’s border with Serbia, where tens of thousands of refugees have gathered. . . .

In Hungary, Orbán defended police in remarks to reporters, claiming refugees had rebelled against Hungarian authorities, seized railway stations and rejected registration in the past few days.

“Considering that we are facing a rebellion by illegal migrants, police have done their job in a remarkable way, without using force,” he said, adding that from 15 September, when tough laws on immigration take effect, those who cross Hungary’s border illegally will be arrested.

Link to video (for some reason, it doesn't embed.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=zxLnlpFATnE