Author: borderviolencelesvos

Since 2020 there have been 3000 incidents in which people have been found in Turkish waters or shorelines after the Hellenic Coast Guard violently forced them back across the invisible sea border and left them adrift. Until now, more than 90,370 people were exposed to this atrocity.

In less than 4 and a half years the HCG, and their partners, have committed monstrous acts of torture, such as robbery, abductions, manslaughter and rape. It happens every day at the command of the Greek State and the European Union.

We do not believe in any legal system under capitalism and we know that the law is there only to protect those in power, but what now happens at the borders is an escalation on all levels. To be clear:
state actors are involved on a daily basis in actions that are prohibited even by the rules of war.

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