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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: Gaza key part of refugee crisis
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleChinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei says he felt compelled to visit Gaza to understand its part in the global refugee crisis for a documentary he is filming.
While Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans have formed the bulk of the thousands of people fleeing to Europe, hundreds of Palestinians have also made the treacherous journey. Ai says he could not ignore the decades-old reality of Palestinian refugees due to their “long history.”
“It is a big population and has such a complexity of political conditions and affects a huge society,” he says. “If we are doing a documentary film we have to search [for] what happened in this refugee situation in the global sense and Gaza is a very, very important location we have to film in.”
— AFP
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