Newsweek is the latest international media outlet to report on the now infamous Moria 'hotspot' on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos (Mytilene), the "preferred destination" for migrant smugglers operating from the opposite Turkish coast over the past three years.
The US new magazine cites a climate of fear and terrorism at the camp, while claiming dozens of instances of sexual violence, including against minors.
The article writes that mothers stay awake all night in order to protect their children from other camp occupants at the refugee/migrant camp - the largest such site established in Greece since the crisis emerged in 2015, shortly after the leftist SYRIZA party came to power with a small right-wing party as its junior coalition partner.
In stressing the point about sexual violence at the notorious camp, representatives of the Doctors Without Borders NGO said a rape occurs, on average, once every week at Moria.
Similar reports painting Moria as a hellish camp were recently published by German media, such as DW and Zeit.
Thousands of third country nationals, most seeking asylum after landing from the opposite Turkish coast, are hosted at the site. A portion are Syrian and Iraqi nationals who fled war zones in their respective countries before seeking refuge in neighboring Turkey. Others, however, are would-be economic migrants trying to reach central and western Europe, hailing from sub-Sahara Africa to Central Asia to as far away as Bangladesh.
