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Almost half of MSF's patients in Serbia in 2017 were children aged under 18, almost all of them unaccompanied or separated children. Whilst these young men and boys may look well, they are left incredibly vulnerable by national and EU policies which leave many of them living rough without proper care and attention.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF210097

Date taken / Date Recorded 29/09/2017 12:00 AM

Country Serbia

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Marko Drobnjakovic

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★★★★★ (A)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m58s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 170.17 MB

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MINORS
Unaccompanied children are supposed to be cared for by the system.
But in Serbia far too many fall through the cracks.

700 unaccompanied children were officially registered
in Serbia in June this year, but the real number
across the Balkans remains unclear.

In Serbia, 83% of MSF's patients aged under 18
reported experiencing violence in the Balkans.

92% mentioned EU border authorities or police as the perpetrators.

ARE YOU OK WITH THIS?
WE ARE NOT
THIS BRUTALITY MUST STOP

PLEASE SHARE

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I’m 16 years old.
I want to share my life story with you.

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What’s happening
with me in these countries.

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I'm 13 years old.

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My father is dead,
so I took this option.

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Two times I have been pushed back
from Zagreb and one time from Croatia.

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I got an injury on my ankle because
the Bulgarian police beat us during the strike.

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- We were 18 friends.

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We went to Hungary and we wanted

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to go to Austria through Hungary.

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15 of us crossed the Hungarian border.

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We went to the other side.

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We faced the Hungarian police,
they caught us and beat us a lot.

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- I am 14 years old.

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They did not beat the others like me,
they behaved very badly with me.

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They say, if a minor goes this way
he will be beaten.

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I swear I do not know why.
This is my story.

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- How old are you?

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- 16

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When you are underage,
and you are small, and then

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there is no one to take care of you.

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You lose your father on the way.

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So, you can imagine, how hard it is.

Special instructions After Effects project to adapt the end of the videos with the “Are you okay with this?” campaign is on MSF210160

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