Hungarian Uprising and Middle Eastern

mass influx: The reaction to recent events in Cologne and other European cities — not to mention the reaction in some quarters to the mass influx of Syrian and other Middle Eastern refugees in itself — has put me in mind of the Hungarian uprising in 1956, according to Rabble. I'm old enough to remember that, and the warm welcome that Canada gave to Hungarian refugees at the time. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Not all of the 200,000 people who fled Hungary after the Soviet invasion actually qualified as "refugees" under the 1951 Refugee Convention, which defines a refugee as a person who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country." Some were indeed freedom fighters. It didn't matter. But others were members of the intelligentsia seizing the opportunity for a better life, and still others were criminals, released when prison doors were blown wide open by the revolutionaries. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.