On one side of the Greek-Macedonian border lies the Greek village of Idomeni. It’s nestled between rolling hills and the local population stands at about 150 people. Walk one kilometre east from the village during the spring months of 2016 and you would come across the Idomeni refugee camp with its 13,000 refugees and migrants living in tents and improvised camps. As the refugee bottle-neck grew, the camp was overwhelmed and conditions became increasingly squalid. Thousands languished in tents in the Greek countryside transformed by spring rains into fields of mud.
