Croatia has become the European Union’s new frontier
The death of a child highlights police treatment of refugees in the EU.
|2017.12.29
While you are reading this article, there is a great possibility that the Croatian police are telling somebody: “No asylum for you!” or “Go back to Serbia!”
The image of a crying Vukovar girl in a blue coat from 1991, the photo of the lifeless body of Alan Kurdi from 2015, and now the image of Madina are strong symbols of the tragedy of thousands of unnamed victims to whose suffering Europe hasn’t responded, or didn’t want to respond to.
Milena Zajovic
Milena Zajovic has a masters in psychology and works as the editor of cultural column in the daily newspaper Vecernji list. She is the president of the volunteer association Are You Syrious?, curator of Motovun Film Festival, and an independent researcher and documentarist.
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This story was originally written in Serbian.