Afghan migrants in Bosnia still hope to reach EU despite violent pushbacks


FILE PHOTO: General view of a migrant camp Lipa near Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 18, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

VELIKA KLADUSA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Several hundred Afghan migrants including women, children and a seven-day-old baby have settled in a makeshift tent camp near the border with Croatia, determined to continue their journey to the European Union despite pushbacks and deportations.

"I don't want to go back to my country ever again," said a man who identified himself as John, a former driver for NATO in Afghanistan before its Western-backed government fell to the Islamist militant Taliban in August after a 20-year conflict. He said he wanted a better life for his seven-month-old child.

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