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DAILY MIRROR SATURDAY 05.09.2015 6 DM1ST EUROPE’S REFUGEE CRISIS: U-TURN David Cameron UK to take in ‘thousands’ more Syrians DAVID Cameron has confirmed that Britain will take in “thousands” more Syrian refugees and vowed £100million more in aid. The Prime Minister said days ago that taking more in was not the answer to the crisis but yesterday caved in to public pressure. Mr Cameron said: “We will do more, providing resettlement for thousands more Syrian refugees.” The extra £100million will take total aid spending in Syria since 2011 above £1billion. The UN said Britain will take 4,000 from its camps on the Syrian border but Downing Street said a figure will be agreed next week. Critics called on the PM to also take refugees and migrants already in Europe. Former Lib Dem Leader Lord Ashdown said: “This looks less like a plan to do with refugees, more like a diversion strategy.” GESTURE Sir Bob Geldof Sir Bob: I can give homes to 4 families SIR Bob Geldof offered to take in four refugee families yesterday as he slammed the crisis as a “sickening disgrace”. The musician behind Live Aid said he could put the refugees up in his homes in London and Kent. The former Boomtown Rat said: “If there’s a new economy then there needs to be a new politics and it’s a failure of that new politics that’s led to this disgrace, this absolute sickening disgrace. “Me and [my partner] Jeanne would be prepared to take three families in our place in Kent and a family in our flat in London and put them up until they can get going and get a purchase on their future.” Sir Bob also told Ireland’s RTE that images of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi’s body washed up in Turkey were a source of “profound shame”. to some of the desperate families walking through the night along the M1. Hundreds of Hungarian wellwishers lined the route and gave fruit, water and biscuits to the masses of people travelling with few if any belongings. Migrants shouted, “thank you, thank you” but many refused to accept the food and drink – instead pleading for it to be given to the children at the back of the long line of marchers. As night fell, the groups stopped for a short while at the side of the road outside a service station before gathering them- selves and setting off again. In a day of 80C heat along the M7 and later the M1 outside Budapest, he said: “The people of Hungary do not want to help so we have no choice. We will walk until we can walk no more. We have suffered so this is just another step along the way. “Do the people of Europe see nothing? All the cameras are here but there is no help. But we are strong together.” A few of the migrants organised the groups into lines as they trudged along the road while cars and lorries whizzed by. People tried to keep to the hard shoulder but often spilled out on to the carriage. The Mirror handed out basic supplies The situation is very real. People will die. Many are without food and water but still we will walk together. We will carry each other if needs be.” Hamdi said Islamic State terrorists had forced his family and many others to flee their hometown of Raqqa. The Mirror joined the refugees as they marched. Children clutched dolls and teddy bears as they clung to their parents. The dangerous trek along busy motorways could take two weeks. Refugees walked as many as 20-wide across the carriage as aston- ished drivers looked on. Many of the marchers speak of reaching Vienna and then on to Germany which has said it is taking in thousands of migrants. But some walkers have no idea where they are going. Musa Hal, 36, an electrician from Syria, is marching with his sister and three brothers. As we walked for six hours in the have been saying I am holding a bomb and the fuse is slowly burning. “Two days ago I sent a letter asking to declare the island in a state of emergency. Today I am asking the Prime Minister for immediate relief measures. The situation has become unmanageable.” Tear gas battle on hols isle POLICE on the Greek island of Lesbos used tear gas and batons as migrants tried to board a boat to the mainland. The 200 refugees then pelted officers and coastguards with stones. The mayor of the holiday island’s main town has begged for help. Spyros Galinos said: “For four months now I THE LONG Masses walk on » » motorway to Austria ‘ » » We’ll carry each other if we have to’ A CONVOY of human misery, including bewildered and exhausted children, march on a busy motorway in their search for a better life. Thousands of desperate migrants began walking from Hungary’s capital Budapest yesterday in the hope of reaching Austria more than 100 miles away. They are on the move to avoid having to register for asylum in Hungary. Determined dad Hamdi Rasha, 28, from Syria, and his family were among the crowds who embarked on the long walk after being camped outside Keleti train station in Budapest. Walking with his wife, four-year-old daughter and six-year-old son along the M7 outside Budapest, Hamdi said: “We have no other way – we will do anything it takes. “Our homeland is gone, we can never go back there. Where is the help for us? ESCAPE Fleeing Bicske camp FLEEING Column crosses over river BY RUSSELL MYERS in Hungary DM1ST SATURDAY 05.09.2015 DAILY MIRROR 7 mirror.co.uk MIGRANTS TAKE TO ROAD victims too.” The four were charged with causing the death of more than one person and people smuggling. At the funeral in mainly Kurdish Kobani, Abdullah told mourners: “I don’t blame anyone else for this. “I just blame myself. I will have to pay the price for the rest of my life.” His uncle Suleiman Kurdi said: “He only wanted to go to Europe for the children. “Now they’re dead, he wants to stay here.” Meanwhile, the desperate flight for a better life goes on. Turkish coastguards turned back 57 people in three boats – Syrians, Afghans and Pakistanis – trying to make the two-mile crossing to Kos. My duty to tell story SHOC Nilufer Demir THE photographer who took the picture of Aylan Kurdi that shocked the world has said it was her duty to make his tragic story heard. Nilufer Demir, 29, spotted the three-year-old Syrian’s body in the surf near Bodrum, Turkey, on Wednesday. She said: “I was petrified. He was lifeless, face-down in the surf. The only thing I could do was to make his outcry heard. I thought I had to take his picture to show the tragedy.” The Dogan News Agency snapper then spotted Aylan’s brother, Galip, five, nearby. She added: “They didn’t have lifejackets, arm floats, anything to help them to float in the water.” border with Serbia, in the hope of stemming the influx of people. Tens of thousands have entered Hungary in recent months. Around 3,000 refugees had slept rough outside Keleti station from Monday, after being stopped from boarding trains to western Europe. Police said yesterday 300 migrants broke out of a holding camp near the Serbian border and were pursued by officers. Elsewhere, refugees in Calais went on hunger strike. And a group of 100 from the Jungle camp marched towards the town chanting “freedom”. Police in Austria said the death of 71 Syrians in a truck last week was nearly followed by another tragedy. Officers said the same gang of traf- fickers allegedly masterminded a second lorry a day later in which 81 people escaped as they were about to suffocate. [email protected] there into yesterday afternoon when police stormed the train and forced the men, women and children off and herded them on coaches bound for camps for asylum seekers. But many at Bicske outflanked the authorities by making their dash for freedom. The drama unfolded as it was revealed Hungary’s anti-immigration Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that the influx of Muslim refugees was threatening Europe’s “Christian roots”. He said: “We may one morning wake up and realise we are in the minority on our own conti- nent.” In an astonishing move yesterday, Hungary’s parliament passed a series of laws to control the flow of migrants into the country, giving police more authority and setting out strict punishments including prison terms of up to three years for illegal border crossing. Hungary is building a fence along its chaotic scenes across Hungary, huge groups of refugees leapt over the 5ft-high fence at a holding camp in Bicske to avoid being processed. These were people who were among the 1,000 on Thursday who fought to scramble on a train at Keleti station, rumoured to be destined for Germany. Six carriages left the station at 11am but were stopped 20 minutes later in Bicske and met by more than 200 heavily armed riot police who tried to force the passengers off the train. A handful were removed but hundreds refused to disembark. They remained The British Red Cross is running an appeal to help the refugees. To donate, go to www.redcross.org.uk or phone 0300 023 0825 HOW TO HELP FIGH Migrants struggle to board boat MARCH We have suffered so this is just another step along the way REFUGEE MUSA HAL ON THE DESPERATE MARCH ROAD FROM HELL Refugees bid for better life EN ROUE Girl is glad to get piggy back EXHAUSED Marcher wheels tired family Dad buries family as traffickers face court BY ANDY LINES, Chief Reporter in Bodrum, Turkey THE refugee dad who lost his wife and two small sons in a tragedy that shook the world has laid them to rest. Abdullah Kurdi buried Aylan, three, Galip, five, and their mother Rehan in the Syrian border town of Kobani as four men suspected of organising their ill-fated bid to escape the war-torn country appeared in court. Pictures of the little boys’ corpses on a Turkish beach led to an outcry for more global action. They drowned with their mum when their boat sank en route from Bodrum to the Greek island of Kos. Hard-working Kurdish barber Abdullah, 40, wept as their bodies were lowered into the ground. Just months ago 11 of his family were killed by Islamic State, prompting him to flee with his family. He paid thousands of Euros in a desperate bid to get to Europe. And yesterday four suspected traffickers, all Syrian, were led into court in handcuffs in Bodrum. Two of them wept. Their mothers hugged them and said: “They are innocent. They are POIGNAN Three coffins at graveside HORROR Mirror picture GRIEF Abdullah, right, holds Aylan at burial yesterday VOICE OF HE MIRROR PAGE 8: BRIAN READE, 13 Pictures: IAN VOGLER and PHIL HARRIS
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DAILY MIRROR SATURDAY 05.09.20156 DM1ST
EUROPE’S REFUGEE CRISIS: MIGRANTS TAKE TO ROAD
U-tUrn� David Cameron
UK to take in ‘thousands’ more SyriansDAVID Cameron has confirmed that Britain will take in “thousands” more Syrian refugees and vowed £100million more in aid.
The Prime Minister said days ago that taking more in was not the answer to the crisis but yesterday caved in to public pressure.
Mr Cameron said: “We will do more, providing resettlement for thousands more Syrian refugees.”
The extra £100million will take total aid spending in Syria since 2011 above £1billion. The UN said Britain will take 4,000 from its camps on the Syrian border but Downing Street said a figure will be agreed next week.
Critics called on the PM to also take refugees and migrants already in Europe. Former Lib Dem Leader Lord Ashdown said: “This looks less like a plan to do with refugees, more like a diversion strategy.”
GEStUrE Sir Bob Geldof
Sir Bob: I can give homes to 4 familiesSIR Bob Geldof offered to take in four refugee families yesterday as he slammed the crisis as a “sickening disgrace”.
The musician behind Live Aid said he could put the refugees up in his homes in London and Kent.
The former Boomtown Rat said: “If there’s a new economy then there needs to be a new politics and it’s a failure of that new politics that’s led to this disgrace, this absolute sickening disgrace.
“Me and [my partner] Jeanne would be prepared to take three families in our place in Kent and a family in our flat in London and put them up until they can get going and get a purchase on their future.”
Sir Bob also told Ireland’s RTE that images of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi’s body washed up in Turkey were a source of “profound shame”.
to some of the desperate families walking through the night along the M1.
Hundreds of Hungarian wellwishers lined the route and gave fruit, water and biscuits to the masses of people travelling with few if any belongings.
Migrants shouted, “thank you, thank you” but many refused to accept the food and drink – instead pleading for it to be given to the children at the back of the long line of marchers.
As night fell, the groups stopped for a short while at the side of the road outside a service station before gathering them-selves and setting off again. In a day of
80C heat along the M7 and later the M1 outside Budapest, he said: “The people of Hungary do not want to help so we have no choice. We will walk until we can walk no more. We have suffered so this is just another step along the way.
“Do the people of Europe see nothing? All the cameras are here but there is no help. But we are strong together.”
A few of the migrants organised the groups into lines as they trudged along the road while cars and lorries whizzed by.
People tried to keep to the hard shoulder but often spilled out on to the carriage.
The Mirror handed out basic supplies
The situation is very real. People will die. Many are without food and water but still we will walk together. We will carry each other if needs be.”
Hamdi said Islamic State terrorists had forced his family and many others to flee their hometown of Raqqa.
The Mirror joined the r e f u g e e s a s t h e y marched . Chi ldren clutched dolls and teddy bears as they clung to their parents.
The dangerous trek along busy motorways could take two weeks.
Refugees walked as many as 20-wide across the carriage as aston-ished drivers looked on.
Many of the marchers speak of reaching Vienna and then on to Germany
which has said it is taking in thousands of migrants. But some walkers have no idea where they are going.
Musa Hal, 36, an electrician from Syria, is marching with his sister and three brothers. As we walked for six hours in the
have been saying I am holding a bomb and the fuse is slowly burning.
“Two days ago I sent a letter asking to declare the island in a state of emergency. Today I am asking the Prime Minister for immediate relief measures. The situation has become unmanageable.”
Tear gas battle on hols islePoLICE on the Greek island of Lesbos used tear gas and batons as migrants tried to board a boat to the mainland.
The 200 refugees then pelted officers and coastguards with stones.
The mayor of the holiday island’s main town has begged for help. Spyros Galinos said: “For four months now I
The LONG MARChMasses walk on »»
motorway to Austria‘»» We’ll carry each
other if we have to’A convoy of human misery, including bewildered and exhausted children, march on a busy motorway in their search for a better life.
Thousands of desperate migrants began walking from Hungary’s c a p i t a l B u d a p e s t yesterday in the hope of reaching Austria more than 100 miles away.
They are on the move to avoid having to register for asylum in Hungary.
Determined dad Hamdi Rasha, 28, from Syria, and his family were among the crowds who embarked on the long walk after being camped outside Keleti train station in Budapest.
Walking with his wife, four-year-old daughter and six-year-old son along the M7 outside Budapest, Hamdi said: “We have no other way – we will do anything it takes.
“Our homeland is gone, we can never go back there. Where is the help for us?
ESCAPE Fleeing Bicske camp
FLEEIn�G Column crosses over river
by rUSSELL MYErS in Hungary
DM1STSATURDAY 05.09.2015 DAILY MIRROR 7mirror.co.uk
EUROPE’S REFUGEE CRISIS: MIGRANTS TAKE TO ROAD
victims too.” The four were charged with causing the death of more than one person and people smuggling.
At the funeral in mainly Kurdish Kobani, Abdullah told mourners: “I don’t blame anyone else for this.
“I just blame myself. I will have to pay the price for the rest of my life.”
His uncle Suleiman Kurdi said: “He only wanted to go to Europe for the children.
“Now they’re dead, he wants to stay here.”
Meanwhile, the desperate flight for a better life goes on.
Turkish coastguards turned back 57 people in three boats – Syrians, Afghans and Pakistanis – trying to make the two-mile crossing to Kos.
My duty to tell story
SHOCK� Nilufer Demir
THE photographer who took the picture of Aylan Kurdi that shocked the world has said it was her duty to make his tragic story heard.
Nilufer Demir, 29, spotted the three-year-old Syrian’s body in the surf near Bodrum, Turkey, on Wednesday. She said: “I was petrified. He was lifeless, face-down in the surf. The only thing I could do was to make his outcry heard. I thought I had to take his picture to show the tragedy.”
The Dogan News Agency snapper then spotted Aylan’s brother, Galip, five, nearby. She added: “They didn’t have lifejackets, arm floats, anything to help them to float in the water.”
border with Serbia, in the hope of stemming the influx of people.
Tens of thousands have entered Hungary in recent months. Around 3,000 refugees had slept rough outside Keleti station from Monday, after being stopped
from boarding trains to western Europe.
Police said yesterday 300 migrants broke out of a holding camp near the Serbian border and were pursued by officers.
Elsewhere, refugees in Calais went on hunger strike. And a group of 100 from the Jungle camp marched towards the town chanting “freedom”.
Police in Austria said the death of 71 Syrians in a truck last week was
nearly followed by another tragedy.Officers said the same gang of traf-
fickers allegedly masterminded a second lorry a day later in which 81 people escaped as they were about to suffocate.
there into yesterday afternoon when police stormed the train and forced the men, women and children off and herded them on coaches bound for camps for asylum seekers.
But many at Bicske outflanked the authorities by making their dash for freedom.
The drama unfolded as it was revealed Hungary’s anti-immigration Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that the influx of Muslim refugees was threatening Europe’s “Christian roots”.
He said: “We may one morning wake up and realise we are in the minority on our own conti-nent.” In an astonishing move yesterday, Hungary’s parliament passed a series of laws to control the flow of migrants into the country, giving police more authority and setting out strict punishments including prison terms of up to three years for illegal border crossing.
Hungary is building a fence along its
chaotic scenes across Hungary, huge groups of refugees leapt over the 5ft-high fence at a holding camp in Bicske to avoid being processed.
These were people who were among the 1,000 on Thursday who fought to scramble on a train at Keleti station, rumoured to be destined for Germany.
Six carriages left the station at 11am but were stopped 20 minutes later in Bicske and met by more than 200 heavily armed riot police who tried to force the passengers off the train.
A handful were removed but hundreds refused to disembark. They remained
The British Red Cross is running an appeal to help the refugees. To
donate, go to www.redcross.org.uk or phone 0300 023 0825HOW TO HELPFIGHT� Migrants struggle to board boat
The LONG MARCh
We have suffered so this is just another step along the wayREFUGEE MUsa Hal� ON THE DESPERATE MARCH
ROAD FROM HELL Refugees bid for better life
EN ROUT�E Girl is glad to get piggy back
EXHAUST�ED Marcher wheels tired family
Dad buries family as traffickers face courtBy ANDy LINES, Chief Reporter in Bodrum, TurkeyTHE refugee dad who lost his wife and two small sons in a tragedy that shook the world has laid them to rest.
Abdullah Kurdi buried Aylan, three, Galip, five, and their mother Rehan in the Syrian border town of Kobani as four men suspected of organising their ill-fated bid to escape the war-torn country appeared in court.
Pictures of the little boys’ corpses on a Turkish beach led to an outcry for more global action.
They drowned with their mum when their boat sank en route from Bodrum to the Greek island of Kos.
Hard-working Kurdish barber Abdullah, 40, wept as their bodies were lowered into the ground.
Just months ago 11 of his family were killed by Islamic State, prompting him to flee with his family.
He paid thousands of Euros in a desperate bid to get to Europe.
And yesterday four suspected traffickers, all Syrian, were led into court in handcuffs in Bodrum.
Two of them wept. Their mothers hugged them and said: “They are innocent. They are
pOIGNANT� Three coffins at graveside
HORROR Mirror picture
GRIEF Abdullah, right, holds Aylan at burial yesterday
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