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A Syrian refugee in the Idomeni camp set himself on fire in protest over the closed Greek-Macedonian border.
More than 52,000 refugees are in Greece and no one knows what will happen to them.
The UN agency for migrants announced that it has stopped working on the Greek isles after the agreement
between the EU and Turkey turned the registration centers into migrant detention centers.
More than 3,000 people took part in yet another protest at the Greek-Macedonian border.
Some of them managed to put out the fire and carry the man to the nearest ambulance.
At night I was thinking that if I set aflame the tent where I sleep with my wife and children, that we would finally find peace.
We ran away from the bombs, the gunshots, the arrests and the injustice, but we found ourselves into an even bigger injustice here.
According to the latest information, people in Idomeni will be evacuated in April, but it is unclear where to.
900 people entered Greece after the agreement between the Bruxelles and Ankara came into effect.
Until March 20, new refugees were only registered at these centers. Now they cannot leave them.
According to the high commissariat on refugees at the UN, this issue is way out of line in its treatment of people seeking shelter.
It is also not clear what will happen to those who arrived after the magic date the agreement took effect on.
It is very important to note that well over 60 percent of refugees assigned to the Greek isles seeking shelter are women and children.
A large part of them are running away from the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is an option to recheck the status of each refugee individually.
However, the UN agency for migrants, Greece does not have the capacity to do so.