Fears of migrant deaths rise after bodies found in eastern Poland
Warsaw, Poland Reuters Polish officials searched wetlands on the border with Belarus on Friday after three bodies were found in an area where thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa have been trying to enter the European Union. The death of a Yemeni doctor near the border, where winter temperatures often fall below […]
UN urges Belarus, Poland to address refugees’ “dire conditions”
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Belarus and Poland are pushing refugees back and forth across their border and leaving them with little if any food, clean water or shelter, the UN Human Rights office said on Tuesday, urging both countries to address “this appalling situation”. Refugees and migrants interviewed by a UN human rights team on a 29th […]
“It’s all lies”; migrants stuck at Polish border feel cheated by people smugglers
Orla/Bialystok, PolandReuters Syrian friends Anas Kanaan, 34, and Mouein al-Hadi, 36, were told by people smugglers that they would easily be able to get to Germany from Belarus. They just had to pay €3,000 each to an intermediary in Turkey. But the safe crossings from Belarus to Poland indicated by the smugglers were closed off. […]
Poland says Belarus ferries migrants back to border after clearing camps
Bielsk Podlaski, Poland/Bruzgi, Belarus Reuters Poland accused Belarus on Friday of trucking hundreds of migrants back to the border and pushing them to attempt to cross illegally, only hours after clearing camps at a frontier that has become the focus of an escalating East-West crisis. The accusation by Poland suggests the crisis has not been […]
EU to send aid to migrants at Belarus border
Warsaw, Poland/Brussels, Belgium/Vilnius, LithuaniaReuters The EU said on Wednesday it will send €700,000 worth of food, blankets and other aid to migrants at the Belarus border, after criticism it had done too little to help thousands of people trapped in frozen woods by an east-west feud. In a sign of European urgency to resolve what […]
Poland turns water cannon on migrants, crisis stokes East-West tension
Brussels, Belgium/Warsaw, PolandReuters Polish security forces fired water cannon at rock-throwing migrants on the border with Belarus on Tuesday, and NATO reiterated its support for Warsaw in a crisis that has left thousands stranded on the frontier in icy temperatures. Video footage released by Polish authorities showed migrants also throwing bottles and logs across a […]