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West meddling root cause of refugee crisis: Pundit

Saturday, 05 November 2016 7:47 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 05 November 2016 7:49 AM ]

People gather near tents during a rally on November 2, 2016 in support of refugees living in a makeshift camp near the Stalingrad metro station in Paris, prior to its evacuation this week. (Photo by AFP)

French police have started evacuating around 3,000 refugees from a makeshift camp in northeastern Paris that had recently become a shelter for asylum seekers evacuated from a bigger camp in the port city of Calais. The refugees have to remain in some centers until their requests for asylum are processed.

According to Joe Quinn, editor and researcher of sott.net from Paris, the refugee crisis in Europe comes from the areas that France, the US and some other Western powers have tried to intervene and carry out regime changes.

The refugee crisis is happening because of “Western governments’ interventions in countries from which most of the refugees are coming,” he told Press TV on Friday night.

Western powers’ attempt to change regimes in North Africa and the Middle East as well as in Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea has forced millions of people to leave their homeland and risk their lives, he said.

The French authorities even do not show humane behavior when it comes to the evacuation of refugees from a camp in Paris, he added.

Michael Lane, president of the American Institute for Foreign Policy from Washington, defended the evacuations, saying French authorities were putting the refugees into processing centers "which are much more humane, much more livable and much more safe.”

Lane also dismissed the idea that the current refugee crisis in Europe was a result of Western involvement in the Middle East.

Europe has been facing an unprecedented influx of refugees, who are fleeing conflict-ridden zones in Africa and the Middle East, particularly Syria.

Many blame major European powers for the unprecedented exodus, saying their policies have led to a surge in terrorism and war in the violence-hit regions, forcing more people out of their homes.

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