Belarusian border guards are recording another surge of unjustified cruelty against refugees on the border with the EU. In the past week alone, three people have died and several others have been maimed. And since the beginning of the year, the bodies of 23 refugees have been found. According to the Code of Civil Procedure, one and a half times more people have already died at the border than in the previous two years combined. At the same time, no deaths of refugees were previously recorded on the border with Latvia.
And this year, ten people have already died due to the actions of the Latvian authorities. Face control at the border or resolution of the migration crisis in a European way. We provide only facts without censorship.
Yuri Shevchuk.
It has long been no surprise that the EU's friendly policy on refugees has been replaced by militant rhetoric. Hiding behind the protection of democratic values, Brussels gave the go-ahead to border guards on the EU borders to curb the flow of migrants by all means. In southern Europe, helpless people drown, in the Balkans they freeze in autumn and winter, and the conversation with migrants on the border with Belarus is short at all. They are beaten, killed and thrown to our border. But for some reason, this information, just like two years ago during the migration crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border, does not appear in the Western press.
Alexander Markevich, Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus: Recently, there have been numerous cases when we also see the death of migrants who simply die when crossing the border on the adjacent territory of states and, violating all human and international norms, they are simply transferred across the state border. This shows that we are seeing ordinary fascism on the part of the collective West. And their policy is primarily a violation of international norms, the 1951 Refugee Convention. We recently celebrated the anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. They just don't care about these international norms.
Then why should we keep quiet? These are the atrocities committed by Latvian border guards over the past week alone. In Verkhnedvinsky District, Belarusian border guards found a foreign woman sitting near two male bodies on the border with Latvia. The woman was taken to the hospital with hypothermia, where she said that one of the deceased was her husband, an Iranian citizen. With tears in her eyes, the foreigner explained that when trying to enter Europe in Latvia, they ran into an armed group of people in uniform. She asked them for help because her husband and second man were in serious condition. After this request, the Latvian punishers, under the threat of using weapons, cold-bloodedly drove the dying refugees into Belarus. In addition, another foreigner who froze to death was found.
“The Latvian police used a shocker all the time. My husband and others were put in a car. They used a shocker all the time. I only heard my husband scream, but they didn't touch me or my kids. They took my husband to a room and I heard screams. The electric shocker sound. The children were leaned against the fence; the husband was in some room. The children were very scared; I wouldn't let them look at it and asked them not to look at it all,” says the refugee.
On Monday, our border guards found the bodies of a woman and a man near Latvian barriers. Doctors worked on the spot and confirmed the deaths of the refugees.
Sergei Kabakovich, official representative of the Investigative Committee of Belarus:
The price for willingness to go to Europe is human life. This tariff was set by uniformed mercenaries who organized access to their country based on skin color, religion and other stratification systems based on Nazi principles.
A week ago, Belarusian border guards found a woman from Africa unconscious on the border with Latvia. She was lying near the gate in the Latvian barrier. The servicemen provided the refugee with first aid, but doctors attested the death of a foreign woman. All these cases are carefully recorded by our law enforcement officers. But the neighbors already habitually turn a blind eye to the problem.
Nikita Mendkovich, political scientist, head of the Eurasian Analytical Club, expert at the Russian Council on Foreign Affairs: It is no secret that the policy of the collective West has recently become tougher in both small and big things. We are also talking about the behavior of refugees at the border, who are subjected to extremely cruel treatment. All this, a certain brutalization of the West, suggests that their system is entering a serious crisis. And they can achieve their subordination to states outside or within only by increasing the intensity of repression. Cruelty, intimidation.
Bodies on the border with the European Union are a terrible reality of the 21st century. Belarusian border guards have already found the bodies of 23 refugees since the beginning of the year. On the way to a better life, foreigners faced an obstacle — the inhuman approach of the authorities of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. Over 2 years, Belarusian border guards found 38 dead refugees. Their deaths are the result of inhumane and criminal actions by the authorities of neighboring EU states.
Anton Bychkovsky, official representative of the State Border Committee of Belarus:
In 2023, 1.5 times more people have already died at the border than in the previous two years combined. Thus, while Belarusian border guards recorded the death of six refugees in 2021, and nine in 2022, this year 23 people have already become victims. It should be noted that earlier no deaths of refugees were recorded on the border with Latvia. This year, ten people have already died due to the actions of the Latvian authorities. According to this indicator, in 2023, the Latvian authorities were ahead of Lithuania and Poland.
The Polish border guards are not lagging behind the Latvian security forces in their atrocities either. This week they broke the legs of two migrants and threw them into Belarus. Our border guards found maimed refugees from Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The men said that they turned to the Polish border guards for help, who in turn began to beat them mercilessly, sprayed pepper spray into their eyes and broke their legs. Then they were taken to the border with Belarus and literally thrown through gate for animals.
“They beat me, and I don't know what they beat me with. They hit my leg and it broke down. They hit him me the ear and back,” the migrant recalls.
Since the migration crisis in the fall of 2021, there have been about 4,000 confirmed unlawful human rights violations by Polish border and other officials, even violence against female migrants.
Belarus does not dismiss someone else's misfortune; the head of state constantly keeps the situation with refugees under control.
"They will put into any ideological shell what is favorable to them." They will not do what is not favorable to them. It is not profitable for them, the President of Belarus stated
At the same time, Alexander Lukashenko emphasizes some changes in this area:
“Really, well done Germans. They are becoming more and more indignant, and we talk to Germans about migration through certain channels. The assessment is the same as ours. Poles are scoundrels. Especially what they did: they throw migrants over and kill people.”
Alexander Lukashenko noted that the difference between public and non-public assessments does not surprise him at all:
“This is how it should be from their point of view. From their position. They say one thing, but they do something else. This is the norm for them. Our position is light and clear. We're not a decanter, we're not going to catch anyone here.”
The Polish authorities ignore the appeal for international protection and have long divided refugees into those they are still ready to tolerate, for example, from Ukraine, and unnecessary ones from the Middle East and Africa.
Nikita Mendkovich, political scientist, head of the Eurasian Analytical Club, expert at the Russian Council on Foreign Affairs: The West has long been guided by the principle of dividing people not by the principle of equality, but by the principle of usefulness.
While Belarus is trying to build a dialogue, its neighbors are only building fences. Latvia also refused a meeting on migrants proposed by Belarus. Indeed, what kind of dialogue can we talk about if this week even the German government approved measures providing for the fast expulsion of illegal migrants who are denied asylum. How long can you really play democracy?! You didn't drown in the sea? You were not killed on the border of Lithuania, Latvia or Poland? Then, we will deport you officially. That's probably all you need to know today about the true human values of the EU.
