At this point, more than 20,000 asylum seekers find themselves stuck on Greece’s North Aegean island of Lesbos. The island has been at the epicentre of the refugee crisis since 2015 after it became one of the prime targets for migrants to make landfall and late the home of Moria, the stinking and now notorious over-populated refugee camp that houses more the overwhelming majority of the migrants who are currently on Lesbos.

It was, therefore, no surprise that clashes between asylum seekers, the...