World Refugee Day: A boy sent a message for help from a German refugee camp.

Hello! I'm glad to answer your question. About half a year ago, my brother, a refugee, sent me a video late tomorrow night. It was dark outside the refugee camp, only the whistling wind, biting rain and desperately shaking branches under the street lamp. Lai Ming said that he was lonely and scared. It was 12 midnight in Hamburg and 7 o'clock in China. I talked with him for a while, and his mood gradually stabilized.

Laiming is an Afghan refugee I met in Hamburg, Germany last year. He was less than 15 years old when he started exile, and less than 16 years old when I met him. When he was 10 years old, he saw his father beheaded by the Taliban, his mother died of illness soon after, and his brother-in-law was killed by Talita. His sister was forced to sell her house because she was forced to get married by Taliban members, and fled to Germany with her four daughters and Laiming. Along the way, she went through a lot of hardships. Extreme experience made Lai Ming suffer from severe depression, often self-mutilation, and had a strong desire to commit suicide.

The picture of Lai Ming's WeChat avatar was originally a picture of an arm being cut and drifting by blood. This one has just been changed.

I don't know how much longer he can hold on. Maybe one day I will never hear from him again.

Today is World Refugee Day, which reminds me of many refugees I met in Germany last year and the refugee camps I visited. After nearly a year, I wonder if their fate is still shaky, and have the relatives left behind reunited?

Maya (first from the right), a 34-year-old family, once lived in a small town near Damascus, Syria. She is a teacher, her husband is an engineer and she has a house and a car at home. Her daughter is just 65,438+0 years old and lives a rich and peaceful life. The war changed everything. Maya will always remember that one day in June, 20 1 1 year, at 3 pm, gunshots suddenly sounded in the town, and the men were driven out of the door by soldiers and stood in a row against the wall, about to be shot. In the following days, gunfire continued all day, and people with missing arms and broken legs were injured in every family, and no one could save them. Their family fled to Maya's mother's house and lived in a semi-underground house, which made them safe for a while. When we ran out of food, we relied on a few acres of potatoes and tomatoes to satisfy our hunger. Three years ago, they decided to leave their hometown where they could no longer live.

They have been to Lebanon, Bulgaria, Turkey and Sweden, but they failed to stay for various reasons, and finally came to Germany and settled down.

Salim, an Iraqi refugee living in Haburg refugee camp in Hamburg, Germany, was killed by the "Islamic State".

In a refugee camp in Haburg, Germany, a group of Iraqis surrounded me, holding photos in their mobile phones and telling me in tears that their brothers and friends were killed by the Islamic State. Axai is 23 years old. He lived in a refugee camp when he was in Baghdad. He experienced a moment of shock when he was killed by the Islamic State. He opened his frightened eyes and said, "I'm definitely not going back!" Never! Never! "

Jassim, 19 years old, fled from Yazd, Iraq to Germany. His city is shrouded in the terror of "Islamic State" all day. Car bombs exploded around him every day, and soldiers of the Islamic State took away women and children at any time. His parents paid 1900 euros, almost all their savings. They can no longer afford to buy tickets to the safe terminal. When seeing off her son, the mother told him firmly with tears: "I will miss you, but you have to go to a safe place!" " "

The main refugee camp where Axel and others lived in Hamburg Haburg was converted from a building that was supposed to be a large supermarket. This refugee camp was established in 20 15 and 10, with a peak of 1500 people. After the shunt, there are still more than 600 people, including 200 children.

Rooms are separated by simple partitions, and each room has 6 bunk beds.

In a refugee camp in Stuttgart, while thanking "Mother Merkel", the refugees are also crying about their tragic experiences, and at the same time complaining about the slow approval process in Germany. Seeing their loved ones suffering in war-torn countries, the refugees are in a hurry.

Lai Ming once told me the experience of fleeing Afghanistan. 20 15 1 1 One dark morning, he took his sister and her four daughters on the road, accompanied by dozens of people. It took them a month to reach Iran. The journey from Iran to Turkey was the most terrible experience of this trip. You must climb a high mountain, and you must go all out. It was already very cold. Before leaving, Lai Ming and his family put all their clothes on their bodies, and put plastic bags on their heads, hands, feet, bodies and other places where plastic bags can be wrapped, which is both warm and rainproof. At four o'clock in the morning, a group of fifty or sixty people set off together. My sister's little daughter is less than two years old. She was tied to her chest by her sister, and the third one was only five years old. Lai Ming tied her to her chest, and 1 1' s eldest brother and the eighth one took care of each other and followed her mother and uncle. Not long after walking, it began to rain on the mountain and the clothes were soaked quickly. Climbing up again, it becomes heavy snow, the road is slippery and muddy, and Lai Ming's shoes are knocked open by stones. He was almost desperate. Several people in the team have slipped down the hillside, and no one has the ability to rescue them, even their families. After a hard 13 hour, they finally reached the foot of the mountain and came to Turkey.

The refugee camp where Laiming lived after coming to Germany is in this alley, adjacent to the playground of a university.

Turkey is not the end of the escape, but they want to sneak into Greece by boat from an island. I can only go out to sea at night for fear of being discovered by the Turkish police. Once discovered, I will be sent back to Iran, which is a failure. At 9 o'clock in the evening, Lai Ming and 59 others got on a white boat and set off with another boat. There was no finger in the dark sea, and the sea kept pouring into the cabin, but he didn't feel the cold, only great fear in his heart. Lai Ming is very scared. He knows that at least 2000 refugees have died in this sea area. The maximum capacity of this ship is 30 passengers, but now the number of passengers has doubled. The ship was very quiet, only the sound of waves and motors could be heard. Suddenly, there was a sharp cry for help from the sea. "Help! Help! " Lai Ming was frightened. He knew that another boat must have capsized. No one on board made any noise. 10 minutes later, the cry for help disappeared and the sea was silent again.

Two hours later, the ship reached the Greek coast. Lai Ming said that the United Nations people dragged them ashore, changed them into dry clothes and brought food and water. At that moment, Laiming had never felt so safe and comfortable.

The Aegean Sea in western Turkey is the most attractive smuggling route for refugees. According to the statistics of the Turkish Coast Guard, in the first three months of this year, 173 illegal immigrants were buried in the Aegean Sea; Last year, about 5,000 refugees died in the process of smuggling. Even so, since the beginning of this year, 53,000 people have embarked on this dangerous road and arrived in Europe.

1On October 20th, a Syrian refugee arrived at Swath Island in Greece and cried after leaving the flooded raft. Reuters

According to the Global Development Outlook Report 20 17 issued by the Development Center of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, more than 50% of the refugees in the world come from Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and other three countries. Armed conflict and the threat of violence are the important reasons for the large number of refugees. Turkey, Pakistan and Lebanon are the countries receiving the largest number of refugees.

How to deal with the refugee problem? The controversy has never been broken. On humanitarian grounds, should these refugees be completely accepted and resettled to a limited extent, or should they be resolutely refused entry?

At the beginning of 20 15, the new Greek government adopted a more friendly policy towards refugees, and Germany, the main refugee receiving country in Europe, also opened its doors. Two factors contributed to the influx of refugees, leading to the influx of millions of refugees into Europe. Undoubtedly, the sudden arrival of refugees brought great pressure to the two countries, which also led German Chancellor Angela Merkel to investigate the refugee policy many times, and her support rate was once affected.

Another attitude is against accepting refugees. Last year, Poland, Hungary and other Eastern European countries expressed their reluctance to accept refugees. At the beginning of this month, the Czech government has indicated that it will no longer participate in any actions related to receiving refugees. 14, the European Commission said that Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary had decided to start a violation procedure because they failed to fulfill their obligation to obtain quotas. Poland protested against the EU's decision.

In this regard, Jürgen Schup, a famous German sociologist, said in an interview with me last year that this was decided by governments of all countries themselves. For example, Germany decides how many Syrians to let into Germany, and Poland decides whether to accept refugees. This is the decision and responsibility of each country, which is beyond the scope of the EU commitment.

Juergen Schupp, a famous German sociologist.

In fact, this is a national decision. After all, accepting refugees not only costs a lot of money, but also faces many social problems in the future. For example, Germany has made great efforts for the "integration" of refugees and German society. But in fact, there are contradictions among refugees from different countries and religions, and conflicts in refugee camps are constantly emerging. This conflict will even be transferred to their children. In a refugee school in Germany, I witnessed the principal and the teacher mediating a violent conflict between students from different religions. The children of the two camps played earth-shattering and let the whole school know.

The psychological barriers caused by the catastrophic experiences of refugees are likely to bring potential problems to the host countries. According to the exact figures, among the 45,600 refugees in Hamburg, 1500 suffer from mental illness, but only a quarter of them have received short-term medical treatment. In fact, they need long-term psychotherapy.

These are all things that a country should carefully consider before deciding its refugee policy.