Belarus blames Poland for migrant rights violations on border clashes anniversary

November 8, BPN. The Belarusian State Border Committee has accused Poland of gross violations of migrants’ rights.

“Poland’s rhetoric toward vulnerable people has remained aggressive to date. Polish soldiers continue to deny refugees the right to apply [for asylum], prevent media and human rights activists from reaching people who need help, take foreigners to the border with Belarus and try to force them out by using physical force,” it said on Telegram.

“A year of democratic Poland’s ‘productive and effective’ work is hundreds of beaten people and more than a dozen deaths,” it added.

The committee was commenting on the November 8, 2021 events at the Belarusian-Polish border, when Warsaw accused Minsk of trying to provoke a large-scale confrontation as hundreds of migrants headed to the border. Some tried to break through the fence, but the Polish authorities repelled what they described as a invasion.

The Łukašenka regime has repeatedly denied that it orchestrated the migrant crisis and shifted the blame for the mistreatment of migrants to the West.