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  • Amnesty International has accused the EU of turning a blind eye to Croatian police violence targeting migrants and called on the bloc to probe alleged abuses. Thousands of migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa go through the Balkans every year in a bid to enter European Union member state Croatia and then move to western Europe. While most manage to continue their journey, several thousands were thwarted last year by Croatian border police and are now stranded in migrant centres in neighbouring Bosnia. Amnesty International late Thursday cited an incident which allegedly took place in late May near the Bosnian border. A group of 16 Pakistani and Afghan asylum-seekers were "bound, brutally beaten and tortured" by Croatian police after having illegally entered the country, the rights monitor said in a statement. Police also "smeared food on their bleeding heads to humiliate them", it said. Amnesty cited Bosnian doctors and some of the migrants who said they were beaten with metal sticks, batons and pistols before being sent back to Bosnia. "EU can no longer remain silent and wilfully ignore the violence and abuses by Croatian police on its external borders," it said. "Their silence is allowing, and even encouraging, the perpetrators of this abuse to continue without consequences", Amnesty said, calling for Brussels to investigate what it called "horrifying police violence". Croatia's interior ministry rejected the allegations and the notion "that a Croatian police officer would do such a thing or have a motive for it". It said that on May 28, when the alleged incident took place, a fight between migrants took place in Bosnia, which left two migrants dead and many injured. Britain's Guardian daily reported an another incident in which Croatian police allegedly spray-painted the heads of asylum seekers with crosses. Zagreb denied the allegations. ljv-rus/ach
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  • Amnesty asks EU to probe alleged migrant abuse in Croatia
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