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British singer Sting has world leaders "half-men and cowards" for their failure to the refugee crisis. Sting out at leaders during an Amnesty International concert in Athens, Greece. Amnesty International is the largest human rights NGO in the world. Sting also Greece for the way it has refugees over the past few years. He said: "Thank God for Greece because you have the way. You have shown how to refugees when other people are building walls. When children are taken from their mothers and in cages, you are acting with compassion and generosity and common sense....Our so-called leaders, a sad parade of half-men, cowards, have not the solutions."

Sting told crowds that Greece nearly a million refugees in 2015, even though it was with a major financial crisis. Other countries refused to the refugees. Many quickly barbed-wire fences to keep them out. Sting harsh words for the recent family-separation policy in the USA. More than 2,000 children have detained and separated from parents who tried to the Mexico border into the US illegally. The concert audience cheered and when Sting called this policy "brutal" and "barbaric". Some European countries still seem unwilling to help refugees. Italy recently away a German boat of 350 immigrants. Spain eventually to accept the refugees.