{"id":29113,"date":"2015-09-20T00:23:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T00:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/reporters-notebook-walking-with-migrants\/"},"modified":"2015-09-20T00:23:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T00:23:33","slug":"reporters-notebook-walking-with-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/badminton\/reporters-notebook-walking-with-migrants.html","title":{"rendered":"Reporter&#8217;s notebook: Walking with migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"module-position-Ob4cuWZhy0s\" class=\"longformstorymid-bucket longform-inline-share-module longform-longform-inline-share-module\" \/>\n<p>Over a entrance week, USA TODAY contributor Kim Hjelmgaard will follow migrants as they make a strenuous 1,500-mile tour from Greece\u2019s Lesbos island off a seashore of Turkey to a German collateral of Berlin. Here are his reports on a hurdles confronting both migrants and European authorities perplexing to cope with a biggest inundate of refugees given World War II.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"oembed-asset-photo-image\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/d53e5_CQj9btg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\">\n<p>Follow along Kim Hjelmgaard&#8217;s journey.<br \/><span class=\"credit\">(Photo: James Sergent, USA TODAY)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>11 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ATHENS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0This is my initial post in what will be a array of diary-form entries, stories, observations, interviews, audio, video, tweets and some-more that we will be using over a subsequent 10 days or so as we make my approach from Lesbos, Greece, back\u00a0to Berlin. This is a track that hundreds of thousands of replaced migrants and refugees\u00a0\u2014\u00a0many of them tour fight and harm in Syria and other dispute zones around a world\u00a0\u2014\u00a0have been holding for months.<\/p>\n<p>This page will offer as a alighting mark for many of my thoughts and stories. You can also keep adult with my tour on <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Facebook<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"oembed-link-title\">USA TODAY<\/p>\n<p class=\"oembed-link-desc\">Why Europe&#8217;s migrant predicament is surging now<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>6:30 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LESBOS, Greece \u2014\u00a0I arrived usually before\u00a0sunrise on this island about 6 miles off a seashore of Turkey where\u00a04,500 people a day have been washing\u00a0up in life jackets and rubber dinghies. It&#8217;s\u00a0their initial pier of call on European domain as they go in hunt of a new life on a some-more pacific continent. I&#8217;ll be filing some-more from Lesbos after today, though wanted to dump some reflections on a design of a predicament now.<\/p>\n<p>Images conclude each conflict. They depict\u00a0intense difficulty, tough decisions, suffering, difficulty and more. Already, Europe&#8217;s interloper and migrant predicament has yielded many.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\">\n<p>The Turkish mainland is manifest from Lesbos, Greece, as a object rises on Sept. 19, 2015.<br \/><span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There was Laith Majid, a tears Iraqi father who roughly drowned with his mom and children on a approach to a Greek island Kos. (Majid and his family are now protected in Berlin.)<\/p>\n<p>We recoiled during a delicate,\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">lifeless physique of Aylan Kurdi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in April, an off-duty Greek troops officer singlehandedly saved 20 migrants whose boat was violation adult off a seashore of Rhodes, Greece. Sgt. Antonis Deligiorgis was a favourite that day even if a awkwardly framed photos of his actions didn&#8217;t\u00a0fully constraint it.<\/p>\n<p>But to Deligiorgis&#8217; dignified culmination we have also witnessed Petra Laszlo&#8217;s reliable nadir. The Hungarian publisher was hold on video adhering her leg out to outing and flog people tour authorities.<\/p>\n<p>For me, a design that hold my courtesy some-more than any other was\u00a0taken by Andrew Byrne, a\u00a0<em>Financial Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It shows a organisation of about a dozen immature Syrian refugees sitting cross-legged on a building positively lucent with pleasure as they watch <em>Tom and Jerry<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple, domestic\u00a0snapshot that many of us who are relatives can\u00a0relate to.\u00a0Byrne substantially took it on his phone.<\/p>\n<p>In those faces there is merriment and joy, churned with a wretchedness of dislocation and\u00a0terror as good as some\u00a0boredom hold quickly during bay. When we consider of a migrant predicament we mostly consider of this print since of a play it shows. It&#8217;s conjunction tragedy nor comedy though something else.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\">\n<p>Migrants and refugees arrive during a railway hire in Szentgotthard, Hungary, nearby a Austrian border, on Sept. 19, 2015.<br \/><span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Gyorgy Varga, AP)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>1:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mamma, mamma, younan!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two sisters, in their early 20s during most, borrowed my phone and shouted into it. Their silly voices were filled with a reduction of\u00a0happiness, fad and fear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Greece!&#8221;\u00a0they told their mom watchful nervously behind home in Syria. &#8220;We done it to Greece!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then they abruptly hung adult and\u00a0vanished into a mob of new arrivals, fasten a several thousand dislocated, persecuted and impoverished\u00a0migrants who landed on beaches here Saturday and were marching off to an different future.<\/p>\n<p>Moments earlier, a sisters had half-crashed ashore this Greek island in a mostly deflated boat after environment off from Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>There was a child with them, too. He smiled. Safe for now.<\/p>\n<p>On a approach down to a beach, from\u00a0high adult on Lesbos&#8217; parched, olive-tree-rich hills, we could see a boats dotting\u00a0the setting like a tiny unfinished pearl necklace, usually low orange instead of white.<\/p>\n<p>Lifejackets.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"video-up-next\">UP NEXT<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"counter\">03<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"credit\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/112275492\/0\/usatoday-newstopstories~Reporters-notebook-Walking-with-migrants\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a entrance week, USA TODAY contributor Kim Hjelmgaard will follow migrants as they make a strenuous 1,500-mile tour from Greece\u2019s Lesbos island off a seashore of Turkey to a German collateral of Berlin. 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