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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Insight

By Kole Casule DEMIR KAPIJA, Macedonia (Reuters) - If anyone has benefited from Syria's internecine war it’s the men selling bikes in the village of Demir Kapija on Macedonia’s southern border with Greece. Forbidden from using public transport in Macedonia, thousands of migrants, most of them Syrians, have taken to two wheels to cross this landlocked republic en route to Serbia, then Hungary and Europe’s borderless Schengen zone. Over 22,000 have been stopped and sought asylum in Serbia so far this year, 6,000 more than the whole of last year and up from roughly 500 in 2010.


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