“I don’t want to go into the new camp. I want to leave Lesbos,” says Reza, a young man from Afghanistan who speaks good English. Like thousands of other migrants and refugees, he is staying on the coastal road between the island’s capital, Mytilini, and the small village of Panagiouda, picturesquely situated on a bay lined with cafes and restaurants. On the other side of the bay, rows of tents can be seen. Since Saturday, the Greek government, together with the UN refugee agency UNHCR, has been setting up a temporary camp on a former military training ground. Some 500 of the people made homeless by the recent fires in the Moria migrant camp have already moved in. Soon, there is meant to be enough room for all of them. “I feel safer here,” says a Syrian man who is among the first migrants and refugees to voluntarily go to the new, temporary site. The new camp presents an ordered aspect that contrasts with the chaos elsewhere on the island For Reza, however, going this is not part of his plans. “I have not eaten in two days,” he says, and smiles. His hope of finally leaving Lesbos is stronger than hunger or… Read full this story
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