It is different from the refugee crisis in the past… Is the Belarus-Poland crisis a clever plan?

Hundreds of people ‘charged’ the border with Polish water cannons and tear gas

Belarus abruptly installed refugee shelters and opened the scene to the media

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeon Myung-hoon = The New York Times (NYT) reported on the 17th that the migrant crisis at the Polish-Belarus border is emerging as a ‘prime’ in Europe, and this situation is different from the normal refugee crisis that has been repeated in the past. local time) was analyzed.

First, the newspaper diagnosed that this incident was not voluntary movement of migrants, but ‘made’ by someone.

It is said that President Aleksandr Lukashenko, who is called ‘Europe’s last dictator’, promoted this situation in an effort to ease sanctions and put a burden on the European Union (EU).

Although President Lukashenko stubbornly denies the allegations, testimonies and circumstances that the Belarusian government has intervened in the migrant crisis abound.

According to the newspaper, Belarus has recently been granting visas to people who only have one-way tickets to the capital, Minsk.

There are also claims that the Belarusian authorities have moved some of the migrants to the Polish border.

According to the newspaper, there were claims that migrants were forced to go to the border or forced to cross the border, and there were even testimonies that the Belarusian government provided a cutting machine used to break barbed wire.

Analysts say that this situation could lead to a political crisis in Europe.

The current number of refugees on the border is estimated at around 4,000. That’s enough to put the whole of Europe into a state of tension, the New York Times reported.

Conservative nationalists have risen sharply in Europe after the influx of Syrian refugees from 2015 to 2016. Since then, mainstream politicians have also been reluctant to embrace immigration policies.

The conservative Polish regime has referred to non-European migrants as ‘a threat to Polish culture and independence’.

Poland has deployed thousands of soldiers, claiming that Belarus is attacking it. It is said that migrants and border guards are constantly chasing tags along the road in the border area.

On the 16th, when hundreds of migrants tried to cross the border at once, Polish border guards stopped them with water cannons and tear gas.

Poland’s Defense Minister Mariusi Włashchak tweeted: “Thanks to the soldiers who stopped the attack. Poland is still safe. All soldiers working at the border will receive special allowances.”

On the Polish border, there are some families waiting with a ‘green light’ on at home to help migrants, but not many.

The character of migrants is also somewhat different from the existing ‘refugee situation’, the New York Times diagnosed.

Many of the migrants staying in Belarus are trying to cross the border in search of ‘economic opportunity’. Many of them do not meet the legal requirements for ‘refugees’ who migrated to escape violence and persecution in their own country.

In the past, many Syrian refugees from 2015 to 2016 migrated to Europe to escape civil war or war.

Some migrants argue that the governments of Poland and Lithuania are rather abusing refugees.

They say that migrants who have crossed the border are being sent back to Belarus without a separate interrogation process. Human rights groups have pointed out that such measures may violate international law.

“I feel like a chicken in a chicken coop,” Biya Awat, a Kurdish migrant from Iraq, told The New York Times. “My fate is in the hands of the Belarusian and Polish police.” They will not bring it into the country,” he lamented.

The fact that information on the situation is extremely limited is also different from the existing refugee crisis.

Poland and Lithuania restrict journalists and human rights groups from entering the border area. In Poland, not only human rights groups but also doctors are prohibited from accessing the site.

Belarus, which had been restricting access to the press for several weeks, recently suddenly allowed some media outlets, including the New York Times, to report.

Belarus opened the scene after taking measures to move about 1,000 of the migrants who had endured the cold in the ‘tent village’ to the ‘shelter’.

Some observers speculate that the Belarusian government’s measures may have eased tensions between Europe and Belarus to some extent.

The New York Times analyzed that “the intention is to make Poland appear as a ‘villain’ by acting as if Belarus is a country that respects human rights.”

Whatever the intention, the migrants were fortunate to escape the cold and were provided with warm food.

“I’m afraid of being deported, but I have no other options,” a migrant from the shelter told The New York Times.

It is said that there are still about 800 migrants left in the ‘tent village’. At least 11 people died from the cold at the scene.

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