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We have all seen many disturbing videos about the way these inno-
cent people are treated by some Westerners in the social media lately.
In Hungary, a camerawoman kicked and tripped a Syrian refugee car-
rying his child; this caused great anger in the public and the camera-
woman had to apologize for her actions and was ultimately fired from
her job. It is not the only embarrassing footage we saw in the media;
hundreds of refugees have forced their way through police lines near

the Serbian border with Hungary where they were forcibly held in
camps and were fingerprinted by the police, even though all they
wanted was to cross the border to reach Germany or Scandinavia, where
assistance for refugees is considerably higher. What's worse, the Hun-
garian officers were filmed throwing sandwiches over the crowd of
refugees and forcing them to scramble for food. It is injurious to con-
template the mistreatment shown to these needy people.

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