A year ago, as hundreds of thousands of refugees fled war-torn conditions in their home countries and headed for southeastern Europe, the region’s borders were flooded, drawing global attention. In Idomeni, Greece, on the country’s border with Macedonia, areas once filled with tents of refugees hoping for news from home have been replaced by summer crops, Reuters reports. “By outsourcing the responsibility to Turkey and to Greece, European governments are basically saying 'we have solved the crisis because we don’t see it, and we can't smell it and we can't hear it,” Gauri van Gulik, deputy Europe director at Amnesty International, told Reuters.
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