Hungary: #MarchOfHope — Refugee Resistance Against Border Regime
A migrant holds an EU flag as hundreds of migrants walk on a road after leaving the transit zone of the Budapest main train station, on September 4, 2015 intenting on walking to the Austrian border. They were part of an estimated 2,000 migrants stuck in makeshift refugee camps at Keleti station, after railway authorities had blocked them from boarding trains to Austria and Germany. AFP PHOTO / FERENC ISZA (Photo credit should read FERENC ISZA/AFP/Getty Images)
Hundreds of migrants walk after leaving the transit zone of the Budapest main train station, on September 4, 2015 intenting on walking to the Austrian border. They were part of an estimated 2,000 migrants stuck in makeshift refugee camps at Keleti station, after railway authorities had blocked them from boarding trains to Austria and Germany.
AFP PHOTO / FERENC ISZA (Photo credit should read FERENC ISZA/AFP/Getty Images)
Budapest, Hungary. 4th September 2015 — Several hundred migrants bound for Germany walk through the streets of Budapest as they decide to leave the city on foot. — Several hundred migrants left Budapests main rail station to leave the country on foot after authorities barred them from boarding trains.
Budapest, Hungary. 4th September 2015 — Several hundred migrants walk through the streets of Budapest as they decide to leave the city on foot bound for Germany. — Several hundred migrants left Budapests main rail station to leave the country on foot after authorities barred them from boarding trains.
Budapest, Hungary. 4th September 2015 — Several hundred migrants left Budapests main rail station to leave the country on foot on the way to Germany. — Several hundred migrants left Budapests main rail station to leave the country on foot after authorities barred them from boarding trains.
After being forced off trains by Hungarian police, more than 1,000 refugees decided to travel from Budapest to Vienna the only way they can – on foot. Since trains are still prevented from leaving Keleti station, which has become a refugee camp, refugees determined to leave decided to walk all the 134 miles to Austria. They are men and women of all ages, children, babies, and several people who are disabled or who arrived injured in Hungary. The local police unsuccessfully tried to stop them outside Budapest city limits, after they crossed the famous Elisabeth Bridge. Further up along the way, Hungarian citizens are offering them food and help, encouraging them to go on. One of the men leading the march is carrying an EU flag.
