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2021-11-09 Europe
Poland boosts security as migrants gather on border
[Rudaw] Hundreds of migrants colonists, including Kurds, have gathered on the Belarus border with Poland, facing a line of Polish border guards through a fence and hoping to make it across the frontier.

Videos of migrants colonists in Belarus making their way by foot towards the Polish border have been circulating on social media since early on Monday. The Polish Ministry of National Defence published a clip that shows hundreds of people sitting in yellow-dried grass near the village of Kuzinca, where the temperature is 7 degrees Celsius.

"More than 12,000 people [soldiers] are on duty at the border," the Polish minister of national defence Mariusz Błaszczak said in a tweet. "We are prepared to defend the Polish border."

Poland’s interior ministry said they prevented an attempt by the migrants colonists to cross the border.

Thousands of migrants colonists have tried to gain entry to European Union
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nations from Belarus this summer. The EU accuses Minsk of pushing migrants colonists to their borders in protest of sanctions imposed in response to a crackdown on dissent.

The migration crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border is "staged, directed, facilitated and supervised by Belarus authorities," the Polish consulate in Erbil said in a tweet, using the Belarus flag emoji. Belarus reportedly closed its missions in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region this weekend.

Poland has declared a state of emergency on their border and the parliament passed a law that grants border guards the power to push migrants colonists back across the border. It’s part of an effort by Belarus’ neighbors to fortify their borders and stop the migration, but could breach Warsaw’s commitments under international law.

Many Kurds from the Kurdistan Region are among the migrants colonists making their way through Belarus in the hopes of reaching Western Europe. A video from the border published on Sunday shows a group of people wearing thick jackets and warm gloves. A woman screams angrily in Kurdish while her child cries, "Mom, please don’t do this to yourself."

Related courtesy of Skidmark:
'We will defend our country and the entire EU': Polish soldiers force back hundreds of migrants at the border with pepper spray after Belarus dictator Lukashenko sent 1,000 refugees to invade

German Interior Minister begs EU to help defend European territory and backs a border WALL with Belarus after dictator Lukashenko sent 1,000 migrants to invade Poland sparking threats of 'armed' response from Warsaw



Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ]  Top
 File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants 

#1 'The EU is under attack': Belarus troops fire blanks into the air adding to chaos at Polish border where 'weaponised migrants' are camped as Europe blasts Russian-backed bid to destabilise the West
Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-09 08:59||   2021-11-09 08:59|| Front Page Top

#2 This tactic worked well for Stalin in WW2. Remember the "convict battalions" clearing minefields?
Posted by ed in texas 2021-11-09 10:06||   2021-11-09 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3  Iran’s groups of boys carrying golden keys to open the gates of Paradise. Saddam Hussein’s anti-American volunteer human shields filmed lining up on expected bombing targets... I don’t know how effective the tactic was in those cases.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-09 11:59||   2021-11-09 11:59|| Front Page Top

#4 can't make an omelette without... making pancakes
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-09 13:19||   2021-11-09 13:19|| Front Page Top

#5 What's the problem with just mowing these "migrants " down?
Posted by Chris 2021-11-09 14:02||   2021-11-09 14:02|| Front Page Top

#6 #5: well i declare, next you will advocate defending our borders likewise, shame shame. for our borders i approve shooting the coyotes and cartels before they cross the river and keeping all civies in an open, fenced area with a shelter half and one exit to the river. Except for women with children who actually walked...keep them we need them here.
Posted by irish rage boy  2021-11-09 16:50||   2021-11-09 16:50|| Front Page Top

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