View of the Great Hungarian Plain with Draw Well: Karoly Markó the Elder, 1853, oil on canvas, 41 x 53 cm (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest)
Miklós Radnóti: Postcard 2
................................... ........... 6 October 1944, near Crvenka, Serbia
A few miles away they're incinerating
the haystacks and the houses,
while squatting here on the fringe of this pleasant meadow,
the shell-shocked peasants quietly smoke their pipes.
Now, here, stepping into this still pond, the little shepherd girl
sets the silver water a-ripple
while, leaning over to drink, her flocculent sheep
seem to swim like drifting clouds.
Miklós Radnóti (1905-1944): Postcard 2 (1944), translated by Michael R. Burch
On the Hungarian Great Plain the landscape seems to be dominated by the sky: photo by DurhamDundee, 16 July 2009
Checkpoint at Hungary-Serbia border, Röszke, Hungary: photo by Milei Vencel, 18 July 2012
International border crossing between Serbia and Hungary near Horgos -- Serbian side pictured, direction towards Hungary: photo by Meelosh, 27 January 2007
Serbian-Hungarian border completely closed to migrants. Photo @afpattila: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 15 September 2015
The first group of #refugees that didn't make it through to #Hungary sits just the other side of the fence in #Serbia: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 14 September 2015 Röszke, Csongrad
Migrants & refugees walk along a 3-meter-high fence between Serbia and Hungary, near Horgos. Photo Elvis Barukcic: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 15 September 2015
Refugees now confronted by miles of razor wire at Hungarian border. Only way to walk is towards processing centre: image via James Mates @jamesmatesitv, 15 September 2015
#Drone pic of border closing at #Roszke. Police stop #refugees in #Serbia at top while truck on right puts up wire: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 14 September 2015 Szeged, Csongrad
Police guard gap in #Hungary's border fence. Another group just inside #Serbia stops #refugees from entering: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 14 September 2015 Szeged, Csongrad
Group of refugees arrives at blocked #Roszke crossing. Police tell them "transit zone to left" and point down fence: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 15 September 2015 Röszke, Csongrad
A railway wagon covered in barbed wire is placed at the Hungarian border with Serbia near Horgos. #AFP @armend_nimani: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 15 September 2015
#Drone view of the rail carriage used by Hungarian government to block gap in fence at #Roszke border crossing: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 15 September 2015 Röszke, Csongrad
A group of #Syrian #refugees is turned away at #Roszke #Hungary and told by police to try border post 2km away: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 15 September 2015 Röszke, Csongrad
The new border line of Europe, courtesy of Hungary. Refugees walk along the fence.: image via Eric Randolph @EricWRandolph, 14 September 2015
#Refugees first reaction after reaching the now sealed hungarian #border at #roszke: image via Levente Hernadi @Lvnte, 15 September 2015
Meglepte a menekülteket a Mad Max-vagon: image via index,hu @indexhu, 15 September 2015
Border closed, #refugees start to pile up on land between #Hungary and #Serbia at #Horgos: image via Levente Hernadi @Lvnte, 15 September 2015
Border closed, #refugees start to pile up on land between #Hungary and #Serbia at #Horgos: image via Levente Hernadi @Lvnte, 15 September 2015
Border closed, #refugees start to pile up on land between #Hungary and #Serbia at #Horgos: image via Levente Hernadi @Lvnte, 15 September 2015
Fed up with waiting in front of locked door, refugees now sitting in the main motorway. All border traffic stopped: image via James Mates @jamesmatesitv, 15 September 2015
Europe shame: image via matthew cassel @matthewcassel, 15 September 2015
Border closed, #refugees start to pile up on land between #Hungary and #Serbia at #Horgos: image via Levente Hernadi @Lvnte, 15 September 2015
Refugees now pressing against solid metal barriers that block border into Hungary. Police and army on other side: image via James Mates @jamesmatesitv, 15 September 2015
This Hungarian territory, so Govt still has responsibility for these people awaiting entry. Not an official in sight: image via James Mates @jamesmatesitv, 15 September 2015
If they'd arrived yesterday, this group wd be on a bus to Germany by now. Instead this fence may be the end of road: image via James Mates @jamesmatesitv, 15 September 2015
Hundreds now pressing against single door surrounded by razor wire. Only (legal) way into Hungary. Firmly shut.: image via James Mates @jamesmatesitv, 15 September 2015
So after 30 mins, the door has opened. But only to pass out food and water. No one is going in.: image via James Mates @jamesmatesitv, 15 September 2015
#Refugees on hunger strike RIGHT NOW @#Roszke border point, throwing food on the ground & asking #Hungary to let them in: image via Szaboics Panyi @panyiszaboics, 15 September 2015
Hunger strike @#Roszke still going on, little children w/out food&water as it's getting hotter. Pic by István Huszti: image via index,hu @indexhu, 15 September 2015
Line of #refugees waiting to get on buses at #Roszke camp on Serbia-Hungary border is just getting longer: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 13 September 2015 Röszke, Csongrad
The first group of #refugees that didn't make it through to #Hungary sits just the other side of the fence in #Serbia: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 14 September 2015 Röszke, Csongrad
Refugees in Serbia have set up camp just meters away from Hungary's now sealed border: image via matthew cassel@matthewcassel, 15 September 2015
Hungary's former PM Ferenc Gyurcsany visits refugees stuck on Serbian side of border. Calls situation 'disgraceful': image via James Mates @jamesmatesitv, 15 September 2015
Serbian minister Aleksander Vulin at blocked Hungarian border. Says he's asked Hungarians to open. They've refused.: image via James Mates @jamesmatesitv, 15 September 2015
A man kisses his baby as they sit along a fence on Hungaria's border with Serbia near the town of Horgos: image via Anhony Wallace @AntAFP, 15 September 2015
SERBIA - A refugee carries a child on his back at Hungarian border with Serbia near Horgos. By @armend nimani #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 15 September 2015
2 comments:
The Army of the Unwanted. With signs in English. They can't go back and they can't be left to starve behind the barbed wire, so the gates will have to swing open.
Hungary has been a stubborn denier or defier of that simple truth.
The thousands waiting at their gates will have to find another route.
Today, the alternate route:
Croatia.
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