105-Year-Old Afghan Refugee Seeks Better Life in Europe
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OPATOVAC, Croatia — She is 105 years old but still dreams of a better life without wars and bombs.

Bibihal Uzbeki, from Kunduz, Afghanistan, is among tens of thousands of migrants who have traveled for thousands of miles fleeing war and poverty to search for a happier, safer future in Europe.

Wrapped in a green scarf and a brown blanket, she was brought on a stretcher to Croatia's main Opatovac refugee camp Tuesday after crossing in from Serbia with a large group of refugees, including her son, grandson and several other relatives.

The trek across mountains, deserts, seas and forests into Europe is dangerous and exhausting, even for people one-fifth her age.

“My legs hurt, but I'm fine,” Uzbeki said in Farsi, speaking through a translator while sitting on the floor inside a Red Cross tent. Her hands shook as she spoke.

She said her 17-member family had traveled for 20 days to reach Europe, with her 67-year-old son and her 19-year-old grandson often carrying her on their backs.

“We had problems many times. I suffered a lot,” she said. “I fell and injured my head. I have scars on my head.”

As they carried her into a train that took them further west toward Slovenia, her grandson Muhamet said the family hopes its final destination is Sweden.

Croatian police said they checked her documents and she is 105 years old. Her grandson also said that's her age, but it could not be independently verified.

The Croatian Red Cross wished the family “all the luck in the world, as well as to thousands of others whom we meet daily.”

More than 260,000 migrants have passed through Croatia since Sept. 15, when Hungary closed its border with Serbia, diverting the flow of refugees to Croatia.

再老都要自由 阿富汗105歲老嫗奔歐

她105歲了，但仍夢想能過沒有戰爭、沒有炸彈，更幸福的好生活。

美聯社與英國「衛報」（The Guardian）報導，來自阿富汗昆都茲（Kunduz）的烏茲貝琪（Bibihal Uzbeki）阿嬤，是成千上萬名千里迢迢逃離戰亂，前來歐洲尋找更安全、更幸福未來的難民之一。

她跟著兒孫和親戚，隨大批難民輾轉經塞爾維亞來到克羅埃西亞，裹著綠色圍巾、包在棕色毛毯中的她，27日被用擔架送進了奧巴托瓦奇（Opatovac）難民營。

這趟路跋山涉水，得翻山越嶺，穿越沙漠、走過海邊和森林，危機重重不說，就算是年齡只有她1/5的人，也要大喊吃不消。

烏茲貝琪在紅十字會搭的帳篷內席地而坐，用波斯語透過翻譯對記者說：「我腳受傷了，但我沒事。」說話時，她的手還微微顫抖。

烏茲貝琪說，她一大家子17人花了20天來到歐洲，67歲的兒子和19歲的孫子常常輪流背著她走。她說：「我們好多次遇到麻煩，我好辛苦，摔傷了頭，頭上還留了疤。」

現在他們坐上火車，要繼續往西前往斯洛維尼亞。烏茲貝琪的孫子表示，一家人希望最後能抵達瑞典。

9月15日匈牙利關閉和塞爾維亞邊界，難民分流到克羅埃西亞以來，已有超過26萬名難民過境此地。

原文參照：
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/10/27/world/europe/ap-eu-balkans-105-year-old-refugee.html

2015-10-29 世界日報 編譯中心