LESBOS, Greece: Greece began moving hundreds of asylum-seekers on Monday from a camp on the island of Lesbos that holds around four times the number of people it was built for.
Moving asylum-seekers from island camps to the mainland is part of government measures announced on Aug 31 to deal with the rising numbers. All of Greece's five formal island camps are over capacity. Moria, which is a disused military base, has been criticised by humanitarian organisations for its squalid living conditions.It currently holds the highest number of people in three years and violence is not uncommon. An Afghan boy was killed in a fight there last month and women have told aid groups they often feel unsafe.
The numbers are small compared to the nearly 1 million people who fled to northern Europe through Greece in 2015, as a deal between the EU and Ankara in March 2016 all but cut off the flow. But they have still piled pressure on Greek facilities.
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