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Canada Bureau Chief @NYTimes. Previously NYT Brussels. Past lives East Africa, Europe @WSJ. Greek-Greek https://t.co/tQulNeLisI 💌matina.stevis@nytimes.com
May 19, 2023 13 tweets 5 min read
On April 13th I got an email from a stranger, @FayadMulla
He was on Lesbos & had footage from 2 days prior showing migrants getting rounded up on land & ditched in the Aegean by the coast guard
Did I want to see it?
If you think the answer was an easy "yes," you're wrong. @FayadMulla I am a Greek of Eastern Aegean heritage who has spent a decade writing about migration from the E.U. & Africa.
I know how many people have tried to get compelling evidence of these widely known practice. The bar is very high, and invariably you get abused for trying.