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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 08:46 PM Nov 2015

Washington Post: End of the Line (re: refugees in Finland)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2015/11/25/end-of-the-line/
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The buses are coming. No one knows when, how many, or exactly who will be in them, only that they are coming — buses filled with refugees who began their journeys thousands of miles away and will arrive any day now at their final destination, this remote town in the piney forest of eastern Finland.

“I want to know how long they’ve been traveling,” one town resident says, helping to prepare an old empty hospital to house them.

“I was wondering if they have families,” says another, who is fitting gurneys with donated sheets bearing the image of Justin Bieber.

“And the whole situation — the war situation,” says another, who is taping “No smoking” signs in Arabic to the walls. “I want to ask about that.”
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