On the Polish-Belarusian border, TRT World travelled with a small group of volunteers who respond to distress calls from asylum seekers forced walk through the forest to seek asylum in Europe
in 2020. Applications from Belarusian citizens, evacuations from Afghanistan and the crisis at the Belarusian-Polish border late last year account for much of that rise. Only 2,200 were granted protection.
Mahdi and talks to Olga, one of the volunteers, near the 'exclusion zone' at the Poland-Belarus border. Stranded and undocumented in Russia for the past five years, Mahdi looks forward to his chance to start a normal life - one where he doesn’t have to hide from the authorities. “They are in a good spot,” Tomasz says, implying it will be difficult for the Border Guard to find them. “They don’t arrest people, they just throw them over the border.”
The camp was closed at the end of March, scattering the remaining asylum seekers in the surrounding forest. Simultaneously, the number of people attempting the crossing dailyThe NGO receives requests for assistance from migrants and refugees who can be stuck in the forest for days. from another group operating on the border, Grupa Granica, were arrested in late March on charges of ‘human smuggling’.
He says Belarusian border guards prevented the group from going back to Minsk after they’d left Bruzgi. It’s the second time he has attempted the crossing, after flying to Belarus alongside thousands of Iraqi Kurds late last year at the height of the border crisis.
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