“We ran away from my family because they tried to kill us,” says Eli. “We love each other, but our families are enemies.” Eli, who preferred not to give her last name for safety reasons, escaped from Kabul, Afghanistan with her husband Mustafa. The 22-year-old told how they fell in love in Kabul and were secretly married. But then her father found out. “He tried to kill me and my husband,” she says. So she and Mustafa, 27, fled Afghanistan. They made it to Turkey and then traveled by boat for three and a half hours to the island of Lesbos, Greece. Once there, Eli says she thought their troubles were over. Instead, they were brought to Moria camp, which,...
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