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The transit of migrants to the European Union across the border with Belarus once again tense up spirits in the region. According to Minsk, up to 7,000 people waited on the Belarusian side to be able to cross into community territory. While the bloc signals Belarus to encourage migration, President Alexander Lukashenko blames the bloc for refusing to dialogue. The diplomatic confrontation between the parties leaves migrants in the middle, many of whom are fleeing persecution and various conflicts.
Umm Malak is pregnant. She travels with her husband and three daughters from Iraq. Your destination is Germany. On six occasions its transit was blocked by the Polish authorities.
In less than a month she will give birth and hopes to be able to reach the European Union so that her son is born there and offer a better life to her family. “We have witnessed the oppression in Iraq, worse and more serious than this. We have a goal to achieve, we have to achieve the goal of a better life,” he says.
Like her, and regardless of the obstacles, thousands of people, most of them from Middle Eastern countries, embark on a journey that they do not know how it will end. The daughter of the Syrian refugee, Abou Elias, is one of them. He says that governments are gambling with the lives of thousands of people. “That the rulers put an end to this matter. They are playing against each other, from one side to another, and who is the fuel? These people, these poor people,” he says, referring to those stranded at the border.
But uncertainty is not only experienced at the border. In northern Iraq, the families of migrants await news of their loved ones. Some receive only their remains “He had not eaten in five days, he was diabetic and he did not have his medication. The border guards knew he was sick, “says Aso Akib Aziz, a cousin of Gaylar Dler, an Iraqi who died on the way.
Some migrants were repatriated from Iraq, while others wait in shelters in Belarus. The truth is that Minsk and Brussels do not agree and winter threatens those who continue adrift on the border.
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