European officials accuse Belarus' authoritarian regime of allowing growing numbers of migrants to cross the border into Lithuania unimpeded as part of a high-stakes game with the EU
Near Poškonys, Lithuania-Belarus border Desperate, frightened and begging for help, they emerge from the darkness: a group of Yazidi migrants, lost in the forests of eastern Europe.
It's a surreal sight -- and one that has been repeated over many recent nights. Having survived persecution by ISIS at home in Iraq, here on the Belarus-Lithuania border the Yazidis find themselves caught up in a breathtakingly cynical plot. Belarus's authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has been accused of using these desperate souls as pawns in his high-stakes game with the European Union.
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