Posted by Wymark on 7/12/2009, 6:31 pm
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'Greek riot police have led an operation to demolish a makeshift camp housing illegal immigrants in the western port city of Patras.
The camp was used by migrants hoping to smuggle themselves onto ships bound for Italy and Western Europe . . .
. . . About 100 riot police escorted bulldozers into the camp before dawn.
They levelled scores of cardboard and plastic hovels . . .
. . . A few months ago, it accommodated about 1,800 people, mainly from Afghanistan.
But that number had dwindled to about 100 following large-scale arrests and also because the port authorities had made it nearly impossible to get on board ferries to Italy.
The early morning operation was described by Red Cross officials in Patras as "terrorising" the migrants.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8146597.stm
Whoo! Yes to Islamophobic pogroms against Afghan refugees! No to cultural relativism! Oh yeah!
