Cannon Flesh of the Loukachenko regime, thousands of exiles, often Iraqi Kurds lured by mafia networks, are pushed to the Polish border, after having suffered a calvary of humiliations and ill-treatment.
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Their bodies exhausted, hungry, worked by the cold, fatigue and anguish have turned to their own inappropriate, in a war that is not theirs. Wednesday, November 17 In the morning, they were still a few thousand exiles stranded at the gates of the European Union, after being pushed the day before by the Belarusian forces to fuck the Polish border. Kurdes Iraqi in the vast majority, fleeing a clogged future in their country of origin, they were attracted to this infernal trap following the orchestration, by Minsk, of migratory influx to Europe from the East, via Poland and Lithuania.
For the Belarusian regime, these men, these women and children constitute Cannon flesh to overcome on his Western opponents, in retaliation to the sanctions imposed after the violent repression of the popular uprising of 2020 against the re-election of President Alexander Loukachenko. Le Monde was able to join some of them a few hours after the confrontation organized by the Belarus military between these migrants and the Polish forces who keep their borders as a besieged citadel.
“We were gathered like livestock by the Belarus,” says on the phone, Nishan, 26 years old the voice scratched by a constant cough and bad. In Belarus since early November, he arrived in the country with a group of twelve people, including children from Iraqi Kurdistan. “At the beginning of the month, we were scattered in the forest in small groups, we were alone and we did not know where to go. Then the police or the Belarus military came to groupe to us,” says the young man. According to him, Minsk’s men accompanied violent humiliations this folding work. “I got a punch in the chest because I refused to answer their orders,” he said. We asked a group of soldiers to give us water. They took out their sex and told us that we could drink their urine “.
The trap
Over the days, a movement has been drawn, orchestrated by the Belarus, towards the vicinity of Grodno, opposite the Polish border crossing of Kuznica. “On the night of November 15, we started to see more and more groups go to an unknown destination,” says Musa, a 29-year-old Iraqi Kurdish migrant. “Little by little, we understood that the Belarus pushed us in a precise direction.” A few hours later, on November 16, Musa and his companions are in what he describes as the “buffer zone” between Poland and Belarus, near the border post.
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