An Engineered Migration Crisis On The Belarus-Poland Border : Consider This from NPR : NPR
3 years, 1 month ago

An Engineered Migration Crisis On The Belarus-Poland Border : Consider This from NPR : NPR

NPR  

How A Dictator Engineered A Migration Crisis At The Belarus-Poland Border Enlarge this image toggle caption Oksana Manchuk/TASS via Getty Images Oksana Manchuk/TASS via Getty Images Migrants from faraway countries are stuck in Belarus, just across its border with Poland. EU leaders say Lukashenko and his backers in Russia are 'weaponizing' migration in retaliation for sanctions placed on Belarus last year. Migrants were reportedly moved from makeshift camps outdoors to a government-run shelter on Thursday, though it's unclear what Belarus plans to do with them next. In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.

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Belarusians fleeing repression at home say they face new threats and intimidation abroad
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Belarusians fleeing repression at home say they face new threats and intimidation abroad

The Independent  

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Belarus sends more troops and aircraft to its border with Ukraine
4 months ago

Belarus sends more troops and aircraft to its border with Ukraine

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus has deployed aircraft and air defense troops to its border with Ukraine, a day after President Alexander Lukashenko announced he would station almost a third of the country’s military along the frontier. The Belarusian military also deployed anti-aircraft missiles and soldiers from the country’s radio-technical corps, Maj. Gen. Andrey Lukyanovich, commander of the Belarusian Air Defense …

Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure
6 months, 1 week ago

Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Poland on Thursday reintroduced restrictions on movement along parts of the border with Belarus because of increased migration pressure that has involved violence against Polish security officials. The ban taking effect Thursday will be valid for 90 days and affects 60 kilometers of the land border between NATO member Poland and Belarus, an autocratic state aligned with …

Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure
6 months, 1 week ago

Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure

The Independent  

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Poland honors soldier who was fatally stabbed by migrant at border with Belarus
6 months, 1 week ago

Poland honors soldier who was fatally stabbed by migrant at border with Belarus

The Independent  

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Poland honors soldier who was fatally stabbed by migrant at border with Belarus
6 months, 1 week ago

Poland honors soldier who was fatally stabbed by migrant at border with Belarus

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Sirens wailed and lawmakers in the Polish parliament observed a minute of silence on Wednesday to honor a young soldier who was fatally stabbed at the Polish-Belarusian border during a migration crisis that Poland says has been engineered by Russia and Belarus. In Warsaw, the speaker of parliament, Szymon Holownia, asked lawmakers to “honor the sacrifice of …

Why Poland says Russia and Belarus are weaponizing migration to benefit Europe’s far-right
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Why Poland says Russia and Belarus are weaponizing migration to benefit Europe’s far-right

Associated Press  

POLAND-BELARUS BORDER, Poland — A Somali woman pushes her bandaged hand between two vertical bars of a thick metal barrier separating Belarus from Poland as she and four other women gaze toward the European Union. Poland and the EU say migrants — who have trekked to former Soviet countries from as far away as the Middle East and Africa — …

Hungary's foreign minister visits Belarus despite EU sanctions, talks about expanding ties
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Hungary's foreign minister visits Belarus despite EU sanctions, talks about expanding ties

The Independent  

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Hungary’s foreign minister visits Belarus despite EU sanctions, talks about expanding ties
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Hungary’s foreign minister visits Belarus despite EU sanctions, talks about expanding ties

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Hungary’s top diplomat visited Belarus on Wednesday for talks on expanding ties despite the European Union’s sanctions against the country. Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó declared that “our position is clear: the fewer sanctions, the more cooperation!” The EU has slapped an array of sweeping sanctions on Belarus for the repression, which followed mass protests fueled by …

Poland’s leader says the border with Belarus will be further fortified after a soldier is stabbed
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Poland’s leader says the border with Belarus will be further fortified after a soldier is stabbed

Associated Press  

DUBICZE CERKIEWNE, Poland — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday that its forces would further fortify the border with Belarus and can use “all available means” to defend the NATO nation’s frontier, after a soldier was seriously wounded with a knife by a migrant. Tusk said that a buffer zone some 200 meters wide would be set up along …

More Ukrainian children from Ukraine’s Russia-held regions arrive in Belarus despite global outrage
11 months, 3 weeks ago

More Ukrainian children from Ukraine’s Russia-held regions arrive in Belarus despite global outrage

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus’ authoritarian president on Thursday attended a government-organized meeting with children brought from Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine, openly defying an international outrage over his country’s involvement in Moscow’s deportation of Ukrainian children. Pavel Latushka, a former Belarusian culture minister turned opposition activist who has presented the ICC with evidence of Lukashenko’s alleged involvement in the unlawful deportation …

Activist hands ICC evidence he says implicates Belarus president in transfer of Ukrainian children
1 year, 1 month ago

Activist hands ICC evidence he says implicates Belarus president in transfer of Ukrainian children

Associated Press  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — An exiled Belarus activist on Tuesday presented a second dossier of evidence to the International Criminal Court that he said proves the personal involvement of President Alexander Lukashenko in the illegal transfer of children to Belarus from Russian-occupied towns in Ukraine. “We share additional evidence proving Lukashenko’s direct participation in the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children …

Why tensions have been growing along NATO’s eastern border with Belarus
1 year, 4 months ago

Why tensions have been growing along NATO’s eastern border with Belarus

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Poland is deploying thousands of troops to its border with Belarus, calling it a deterrent move as tensions between the two neighbors ratchet up. Those tensions between Poland — a NATO and European Union country — and Belarus, which is Russia’s ally in its war on Ukraine, have been building up in recent months on the border. …

Why tensions have been growing along NATO’s eastern border with Belarus
1 year, 4 months ago

Why tensions have been growing along NATO’s eastern border with Belarus

The Independent  

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Polish minister says reinforcement at the border with Belarus is due to hostile rhetoric and actions
1 year, 4 months ago

Polish minister says reinforcement at the border with Belarus is due to hostile rhetoric and actions

Associated Press  

JARYLOWKA, Poland — Poland’s defense minister said Saturday that the country has increased the number of troops protecting its border with Belarus as a deterrent amid “destabilizing” actions by its pro-Russian neighbor. Also a pro-government group in Belarus recently alleged that Poland’s politicians, who support Ukraine in its war against Russia’s aggression, were “igniting the fire of war with their …

Poland to move 10,000 troops to border near Belarus as Wagner threat grows
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland to move 10,000 troops to border near Belarus as Wagner threat grows

India TV News  

The Polish Defense Minister on Thursday said that the government is planning to deploy at least 10,000 troops along its border with neighbouring Belarus to prepare for a possible altercation with Wagner mercenary forces and migants trying to illegally cross the border. Additional 2,000 troops would be sent to the border over the next two weeks to double Poland's military …

Poland to double troops number at border with Belarus, accuses it of organizing illegal migration
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland to double troops number at border with Belarus, accuses it of organizing illegal migration

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — The Polish government announced Wednesday that it is planning to deploy an additional 2,000 troops to its border with Belarus, twice the number the Border Guard agency had requested, as fears of illegal migration rise. In an interview with state news agency PAP, a deputy interior minister, Maciej Wasik announced the decision and accused the Belarusian authorities …

Poland and Lithuania say they fear provocations from Russia and Belarus at NATO's eastern flank
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland and Lithuania say they fear provocations from Russia and Belarus at NATO's eastern flank

The Independent  

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Poland and Lithuania say they fear provocations from Russia and Belarus at NATO’s eastern flank
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland and Lithuania say they fear provocations from Russia and Belarus at NATO’s eastern flank

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Polish and Lithuanian leaders held an urgent meeting Thursday in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad, warning that they are bracing for provocations from Moscow and Minsk in the area. Both nations on NATO’s eastern flank have increased their border security following the arrival of thousands of …

Wagner mercenaries in Belarus move closer to the Polish border, Poland’s prime minister says
1 year, 4 months ago

Wagner mercenaries in Belarus move closer to the Polish border, Poland’s prime minister says

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Over 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland, the Polish prime minister said Saturday. Mateusz Morawiecki said at a news conference that the mercenaries had moved close to the Suwalki Gap, a strategic stretch of Polish territory situated between Belarus and Kaliningrad, a Russian territory separated …

Poland’s ruling party leader vows to protect the EU border with Russia’s ally Belarus
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland’s ruling party leader vows to protect the EU border with Russia’s ally Belarus

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — The European Union’s border with Russian ally Belarus has become more dangerous because of Russia’s military presence there, and securing the frontier is the Polish government’s top priority, Poland’s ruling party leader said Thursday. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a deputy prime minister and head of the conservative Law and Justice party, made the comments while visiting the village of …

Belarusian leader approved forced transfers of Ukrainian children, says opposition figure
1 year, 5 months ago

Belarusian leader approved forced transfers of Ukrainian children, says opposition figure

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — A Belarusian opposition activist says that he has provided the International Criminal Court with materials allegedly detailing President Alexander Lukashenko’s involvement in the forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Belarus, accusations angrily rejected by Minsk. In an online statement published Tuesday, Latushka’s anti-Lukashenko National Anti-Crisis Management Group claims to have gathered evidence that the Ukrainian children were …

Poland, Lithuania fear new migrant crisis due to Belarus’ offer of visa-free travel
1 year, 6 months ago

Poland, Lithuania fear new migrant crisis due to Belarus’ offer of visa-free travel

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus is introducing a visa-free travel arrangement with dozens of countries for a month, raising fears that neighboring Poland and Lithuania might see a sudden increase in unauthorized migration. The authoritarian president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, signed a decree allowing citizens of 73 countries — including ones in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America — to …

Migrants with children stuck at Poland’s border wall; activists say Belarus won’t let them turn back
1 year, 6 months ago

Migrants with children stuck at Poland’s border wall; activists say Belarus won’t let them turn back

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — A group of some 30 migrants seeking asylum, including small children, has been stuck at Poland’s border wall with Belarus for three days, Polish human rights activists said Sunday. Although the migrants were outside Poland’s border wall, activists from Grupa Granica said they were on Polish territory and Belarus was not allowing them to turn back. A …

Poland expels Belarus diplomat in retaliatory move
1 year, 10 months ago

Poland expels Belarus diplomat in retaliatory move

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that a Belarusian diplomat was asked to leave the country amid swelling tensions over the imprisonment of a prominent ethnic Polish journalist in Belarus. The defense attache at the Embassy of Belarus was to leave Warsaw very soon, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina told Polish new agency PAP. Jasina said the action …

Tensions mount at the Belarus-Ukraine border amid concerns of a Russian spring offensive
1 year, 10 months ago

Tensions mount at the Belarus-Ukraine border amid concerns of a Russian spring offensive

CNN  

Belarus-Ukraine border CNN — Tensions are mounting at the border between Ukraine and Moscow-allied Belarus, as officials in Kyiv warn of a Russian spring offensive amid ramped-up military attacks from the Kremlin. In rare access since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, a CNN team visited Belarus’s southwest border near northwest Ukraine, accompanied by state border officials. The CNN team …

Hungary FM’s Belarus visit 1st from EU country since 2020
1 year, 10 months ago

Hungary FM’s Belarus visit 1st from EU country since 2020

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Monday became the first senior official from a European Union country to visit Belarus since the authoritarian Belarusian regime imposed a harsh crackdown on opposition in 2020. The EU has slapped an array of sanctions on the country already, both for the repression that followed mass protests against the 2020 presidential …

Lukashenko: Belarus willing to offer more help to Russia
1 year, 10 months ago

Lukashenko: Belarus willing to offer more help to Russia

The Independent  

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Belarus, Ukraine ‘interconnected’; must fight together to safeguard their existence: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
2 years, 3 months ago

Belarus, Ukraine ‘interconnected’; must fight together to safeguard their existence: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

The Hindu  

The fate of Belarus and Ukraine are “interconnected,” and both countries must fight together to safeguard their very existence because Russia doesn’t view them as independent sovereign states, Belarus' Opposition leader said on September 23. Ms. Tsikhanouskaya said the war in Ukraine was “extremely unexpected” and some Belarusians are especially opposed to the war “against Ukrainians, our brothers and sisters.” …

Poland sees rise of African migrants coming through Russia
2 years, 4 months ago

Poland sees rise of African migrants coming through Russia

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Polish officials on Thursday reported a change in migration patterns across the country’s border with Belarus, with Africans who first traveled to Russia making up most of those seeking to enter Poland illegally by that route instead of people from the Mideast. The government said the African migrants include individuals passing through Russia, a close ally and …

Poland completes Belarus border wall to keep migrants out
2 years, 5 months ago

Poland completes Belarus border wall to keep migrants out

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — A year after migrants started crossing into the European Union from Belarus to Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and top security officials visited the border area on Thursday to mark the completion of a new steel wall. “The first sign of the war in Ukraine was Alexander Lukashenko’s attack on the Polish border with Belarus,” Morawiecki …

Poland completes Belarus border wall to keep asylum seekers out
2 years, 5 months ago

Poland completes Belarus border wall to keep asylum seekers out

Al Jazeera  

Poland continues to welcome millions of Ukrainians, while pushing back asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa. Poland has completed building a new steel wall at its border with Belarus to curb the flow of undocumented asylum seekers. Belarus had never before been a key migration route into the EU – until its President Alexander Lukashenko began encouraging would-be …

Poland to end state of emergency along border with Belarus
2 years, 6 months ago

Poland to end state of emergency along border with Belarus

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s government announced Thursday that it will lift a state of emergency on July 1 along its border with Belarus as it completes the construction of a wall aimed at stopping migrants and refugees. Poland began building the wall and restricted the rights of most people to enter the border area after large number of migrants, most …

Poland-Belarus border: The people pushed back in a Polish forest
2 years, 6 months ago

Poland-Belarus border: The people pushed back in a Polish forest

Al Jazeera  

Listen to this story: Białystok, Poland – Mahir* and Hasan* wove their way through a forest in eastern Poland. The pair were able to cross into Poland and avoid Polish border guards, who have been accused of “pushbacks” of non-European refugees and migrants entering their country via the “red zone” – a 3km-wide strip running along the roughly 400km border …

Ukraine crisis: What does Belarus have to gain, and lose?
2 years, 10 months ago

Ukraine crisis: What does Belarus have to gain, and lose?

Al Jazeera  

Lukashenko could benefit politically and financially by siding with Putin, but observers warn his friendship could backfire. Lukashenko’s gain And on Sunday, some 30,000 Russian soldiers “extended” their drills with Belarusian servicemen that began in southern Belarus on February 10 next to the Ukrainian border. In the late 1990s, Lukashenko, a hyperactive strongman already dubbed “Europe’s last dictator”, and Russian …

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland rapped over Belarus border methods
2 years, 11 months ago

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland rapped over Belarus border methods

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — Latvia, Lithuania and Poland continue to use questionable methods to keep out migrants trying to enter from Belarus and are denying access to aid groups trying to help people stuck in border areas, senior U.N. refugee agency and European Union officials said Thursday. She did say that border tensions have “de-escalated significantly,” and that the EU has helped …

Migrants camped in Belarus warehouse still hope to reach Europe
3 years ago

Migrants camped in Belarus warehouse still hope to reach Europe

The Independent  

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As Iraqi and Syrian migrants leave Belarus, some are afraid to go home
3 years ago

As Iraqi and Syrian migrants leave Belarus, some are afraid to go home

The Independent  

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‘Go through,’ Lukashenko tells migrants at Belarus-Poland border
3 years ago

‘Go through,’ Lukashenko tells migrants at Belarus-Poland border

The Independent  

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What next for the refugees stranded between Belarus and Poland?
3 years, 1 month ago

What next for the refugees stranded between Belarus and Poland?

Al Jazeera  

Even if Belarus and the EU reach a deal, analysts say refugees may be long left in limbo at the border or in detention centres. Although Dennison said Belarus’ approach was unlikely to work, he predicted the EU and Minsk may eventually agree on “some face-saving measure” that involve people being returned to their countries of origin, “possibly paid for …

A new humanitarian crisis unfolds at the Polish-Belarusian border
3 years, 1 month ago

A new humanitarian crisis unfolds at the Polish-Belarusian border

Al Jazeera  

For weeks, a large group of people, mostly from the Middle East, has been stranded in Belarus at a border crossing with Poland, trapped as forces from the two countries face off against each other. The West has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of luring the refugees and migrants to the border to use them as pawns to destabilise the …

Lukashenko warns against flare-up with Poland over border crisis
3 years, 1 month ago

Lukashenko warns against flare-up with Poland over border crisis

Al Jazeera  

Belarusian president calls for European powers to work with Minsk but Berlin rejects proposal to take in 2,000 people. President Alexander Lukashenko has said Belarus seeks no confrontation with Poland but wants European powers to work with Minsk to resolve the migration crisis along his country’s border with Poland, adding that if the crisis deteriorated “too far, war is unavoidable”. …

The victims of the Belarus border crisis were obvious. For Poland’s government, it was a useful distraction
3 years, 1 month ago

The victims of the Belarus border crisis were obvious. For Poland’s government, it was a useful distraction

CNN  

CNN — It was clear who the losers were in the dispute between Poland and Belarus. But Dempsey added: “With this whole crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border, Law and Justice now is seen as a champion of protecting Polish sovereignty and, of course, protecting Europe.” State of emergency The decision by Poland’s government – which also opposed taking in refugees …

Poland says Belarus still bringing migrants to its border
3 years, 1 month ago

Poland says Belarus still bringing migrants to its border

Al Jazeera  

Polish border guard said Belarusian servicemen brought about 100 migrants and refugees to its frontier on Saturday night. Poland has accused Belarus of continuing to ferry migrants to its border despite clearing camps close to the frontier earlier this week, as the country’s prime minister started a tour of Baltic states to seek support in the crisis. The border guard …

Poland: Belarus eyes using Afghan migrants as border pawns
3 years, 1 month ago

Poland: Belarus eyes using Afghan migrants as border pawns

LA Times  

A Muslim community buried a Yemeni migrant, Mustafa Mohammed Murshed Raimi, in Bohoniki, Poland, on Sunday. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, following talks with Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte about ways of solving the “very difficult situation” at the borders of EU members with Belarus. Poland’s Border Guard said Sunday it prevented a forceful …

Belarus bringing hundreds in trucks to cross into EU: Poland
3 years, 1 month ago

Belarus bringing hundreds in trucks to cross into EU: Poland

Al Jazeera  

Despite diplomatic attempts to ease the crisis, Warsaw says it has detained more people who tried to enter the EU overnight. Polish Border Guard spokeswoman Anna Michalska said on Friday that a group of 500 people had tried to enter the European Union member state on Thursday evening, aided by Belarusian authorities who had earlier cleared the main camps at …

Poland: Migrant camps along Belarus border have emptied
3 years, 1 month ago

Poland: Migrant camps along Belarus border have emptied

LA Times  

Red Cross employees distribute aid to migrants at a checkpoint on the Belarus-Poland border on Friday. Polish authorities said Friday there are no more migrants camping along the Belarus side of the European Union’s eastern border, but attempts at illegally crossing into the bloc’s territory are continuing and becoming more aggressive. And Ukraine, which also borders Belarus, said it would …

Lukashenko says troops may have helped refugees reach EU
3 years, 1 month ago

Lukashenko says troops may have helped refugees reach EU

Al Jazeera  

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said it was “absolutely possible” his forces helped people cross into the European Union, but denied inviting them to the country. Asked if Belarus was helping refugees and migrants try and cross into Poland, Lukashenko said: “I think that’s absolutely possible. “We drank from ponds… Our people are always oppressed.” Kassam Shahadah, a Syrian refugee …

Belarus moves migrants and refugees away from Polish border
3 years, 1 month ago

Belarus moves migrants and refugees away from Polish border

Al Jazeera  

Belarusian state media reports that migrants and refugees were moved into a heated warehouse not far from the border. A spokesperson for the Polish border guard said the camps on the frontier in western Belarus were completely empty on Thursday, which a Belarusian press officer confirmed, the Reuters news agency reported. Germany, EU reject Lukashenko proposal Meanwhile, the European Commission …

U.S. Special Envoy for Belarus discusses the migrant crisis on the border with Poland
3 years, 1 month ago

U.S. Special Envoy for Belarus discusses the migrant crisis on the border with Poland

NPR  

U.S. Special Envoy for Belarus discusses the migrant crisis on the border with Poland MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: To news now that Belarus has cleared the migrant camps at its border with Poland. Well, I want to bring in the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, Julie Fisher. KELLY: I'm curious what the U.S. take on that is and whether it …

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