The cruelty is unprecedented, but, apparently, such methods of confrontation with migrants are already the norm for "democratic" Lithuania. Among the victims, there are children and pregnant women who fled the war. All of them tell terrible details about their detention in camps on the Lithuanian side, where they were starved and beaten for the sole purpose of obtaining knowingly false testimony against the Belarusian border guards.
And now let's think how the brutal behavior of Lithuanian border guards can turn out for ordinary citizens of this country. This step is absolutely thoughtless and stupid. After all, the Middle East is not just populated by harmless women and children. There are enough people who know how to hold a gun in their hands. They are willing to defend their own, willing to come anywhere in the world to do so. Thinking that radical Islamists won’t be able to reach Vilnius would be very reckless.
The way Lithuanians treat migrants cannot leave anyone indifferent. No one even remembers human rights here anymore. Real Nazism is evident. And it's not even about the torture, apologies and threats that migrants who have come to Belarus have told us about. There is reliable information that local border guards divide all refugees arriving on the territory of Lithuania into several groups. The first group includes political fugitives from Belarus. This contingent is usually of interest to the intelligence services. They also include English-speaking people and those who can give interviews for the media compromising the Belarusian side. The second group includes everyone else: women, children, sick people. The actions and even words of the Lithuanian authorities show their true face - the face of the Nazis.
State Border Committee working to suppress channels of illegal migration
In total, Belarusian border guards in recent days have detained three groups of illegal migrants, traveling from the territory of Lithuania. Meanwhile, Belarusian border guards continue to serve in the protection of the state border. Only for the first six months of this year, the State Border Committee has stopped 11 channels of illegal migration, which is 6.5 times more than in 2020. And over the past five years 132 such channels have been detected and 233 accomplices have been arrested. Against this background, the Lithuanian claims that Belarus condones illegal migration seem absurd, to say the least.
Anton Bychkovsky, official representative of the State Border Committee of Belarus:
Today, in the absence of contact with Lithuania, the unfriendly position of the EU countries and the blocking of cross-border cooperation projects, including the construction of migrant detention centers, Belarus is forced to determine its own priorities and concentrate its efforts on certain areas, taking into account the available opportunities.
About 2,200 refugees have arrived in Lithuania. Most of them are Iraqis, the rest come from Africa. It is difficult to say how many more people in the near future will leave their homes to flee from the war, which, by the way fueled in the Middle East. But it is clear that the summer tents in which migrants are currently being held are not suitable for the fall or winter weather. It is also impossible to predict how the tired and angry people will behave. Experts do not rule out that the increased flow of refugees through the Lithuanian vector may lead to irreversible consequences. These include clashes with the local population, increased criminality, and even riots in the camps. Another potential threat that political analysts foresee today is a political crisis. After all, disputes over how to deal with migrants have already split the Lithuanian authorities into two camps.
