At the age of just 11, Emran has lived through more horrors than most will endure in a lifetime. A new documentary, War Child, follows him and other children stranded in this dystopia The sun beats down and the cicadas sing all around us. Why did you leave home? I ask as we tread through the long grass. The Taliban were killing children as they walked to school, so I had to leave. I follow the boys lead as we creep past razor wire bunched at the foot of a gleaming silver fence. Two years ago my parents sent my older brother to Germany, to safety. They didnt have enough money for everyone to go. Now Im 11, its my turn. Im exploring the Greek-Macedonian border with Emran, a charismatic young Afghan boy, filming him for a Channel 4 documentary War Child. Three months ago, he left his parents in Kabul and made his way towards Western Europe. He almost drowned when the outboard motor on his dinghy failed as he crossed from Turkey to Greece. By some miracle, a fishing boat saw his dinghy and alerted the coastguard. It was so scary, Emran tells me. I cant swim. Now Im stuck here on the Greek border, he says. But he stubbornly maintains that he must keep going forward. Emran is streetwise beyond his years, super-smart and speaks near-perfect English. He is travelling with his extended family and must be on his best behaviour as the last thing he wants is to isolate himself. So far, this 11-year-old has travelled 5,500km without his parents. from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2019/02/21/shot-at-beaten-starved-the-child-refugees-who-will-stop-at-nothing-to-reach-europe/
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