Disinfo: Lithuania and Poland should end their mockery of the migrants

Summary

International organisations should force Lithuania and Poland to end their mockery of migrants. There were a lot of facts of violation of human rights on the border. Lithuania and Poland refuse to fulfil international obligations and offer asylum to migrants.

Disproof

Recurring disinformation about Poland, Lithuania and the migration situation on the border of the EU and Belarus.

Lithuania and Poland, in reaction to the Lukashenka-manufactured crisis, are implementing a pushback strategy and are not allowing migrants to cross the border illegally. The European Union did not call for changes in this practice.

In 2021, Lithuania, Poland and Latvia faced an influx of irregular migrants arriving via Belarus. Earlier, Belarus had terminated cooperation with the EU to stem illegal migration. This was Lukashenka's answer to the European Union sanctions on the political regime of Belarus (read more about sanctions here).

There is plenty of evidence that the Belarusian authorities have instigated the ongoing migration crisis in Lithuania, Poland and Latvia. Lukashenka's regime is using migrants from the Middle East as "political and hybrid" tools against Lithuania and the entire EU. Commissioner Ylva Johansson said, inter alia: "The authoritarian regime in Belarus is exploiting human beings for political reasons: this is completely unacceptable."

The president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said that situation on the EU-Belarusian border is not a bilateral issue of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus but a hybrid attack against the whole EU. The vice-president of the European Commission and high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy (HRVP) Josep Borrell stressed that responsibility for the migration crisis falls on the Lukashenka regime.

See other examples of disinformation about migration crisis on Belarusian-EU border: Poland blasts poison on migrants; Accusations against Belarus for its role in migration crisis are false; The migration crisis is the fault of the West.

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  • Reported in: Issue 267
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 04/12/2021
  • Article language(s) Lithuanian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Russia
  • Keywords: Migration crisis, Human rights, International Law
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