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Nov 2021
41m 7s

Voice Messages From The Balkan Route

Elia Ayoub
About this episode

As I'm taking a bit of a break, I thought I'd share with you a recording published by the Sara Jeva Collective. Listen to those who became victims of illegal pushbacks in Croatia. The reports deal with flight, racism and policeviolence against migrants and refugees.

Links:

https://twitter.com/JevaSara/status/1446739260112097282

https://reportssarajevo.blackblogs.org/

Related episodes on The Fire These Times:

  1. Episode 35: The European Union’s Violence Against Asylum Seekers, with Jack Sapoch, coordinator of No Name Kitchen‘s border violence reporting, itself part of the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN).
  2. Episode 49: Moria Camp and the Deadly Cost of Fortress Europe, with Ghias Al Jundi, a Syrian-British human rights activist, about the 2020 fires at the Moria camp in Greece

Just look them up wherever you listen to this podcast!


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