Hungary to use army in refugee crisis

Hungary’s parliament yesterday authorised the government to deploy the army to help handle a refugee crisis, granting the military the right to deploy a range of non-lethal force.

Hungary to use army in refugee crisis

It passed a law saying the army could use rubber bullets, pyrotechnical devices, tear gas grenades or net guns, according to the text posted on parliament’s website. Hungary, a landlocked country of 10 million, lies in the path of the largest migration wave Europe has seen since World War Two. It has registered more than 220,000 asylumseekers this year, a wave Budapest has said it would do everything to deflect.

Prime minister Viktor Orban told parliament that police were unable to secure Hungary’s borders with Serbia and Croatia — outer borders of the EU’s passport-free Schengen zone — without help form the army.

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