{"id":48316,"date":"2022-09-08T23:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/sep\/08\/two-years-after-the-fire-moria-refugee-camps-legacy-still-leaves-its-mark"},"modified":"2022-09-08T23:30:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:30:27","slug":"two-years-after-the-fire-moria-refugee-camps-legacy-still-leaves-its-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48316","title":{"rendered":"Two years after the fire, Moria refugee camp\u2019s legacy still leaves its mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of those housed in the notorious refugee camp remain on Lesbos, while others have managed to rebuild new lives<\/p>\n<p>Two years have elapsed since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/09\/lesbos-refugee-camp-fire-forces-thousands-to-evacuate\">the huge Moria fire<\/a> gutted what became known as Europe\u2019s most notorious refugee camp. Squalid, gargantuan and rat-infested, the barbed wire-enclosed facility was established in a former military base below a hilltop village on the Greek island of Lesbos at the height of the migrant crisis.<\/p>\n<p>By the night of 8 September 2020, when the first of a series of blazes tore through the camp, it was housing more than 12,000 men, women and children \u2013 three times its capacity \u2013 and had become a stain on the conscience of a continent keen to flaunt its democratic credentials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/sep\/08\/two-years-after-the-fire-moria-refugee-camps-legacy-still-leaves-its-mark\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of those housed in the notorious refugee camp remain on Lesbos, while others have managed to rebuild new livesTwo years have elapsed since the huge Moria fire gutted what became known as Europe\u2019s most notorious refugee camp. Squalid, gargantuan an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43,388,221,530,59,402,53,491,494,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-europe","category-european-union","category-global-development","category-greece","category-human-rights","category-migration","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48317,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48316\/revisions\/48317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}