Both Ezid and Kurdish migrants are stuck on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border
Yazidi migrants who managed to escape from Syria for religious reasons were stuck together with Kurds on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border without a river and water, caught in the conflict between Belarus and the European Union.
In recent weeks, about 4,000 migrants have entered Lithuania from Belarus. About 2,800 people are Iraqis, including Yazidis. The Lithuanian government has accused Belarus of sending asylum seekers across the border, arming migrants in an attempt to put pressure on the European Union to lift sanctions imposed after Belarus diverted a Ryanair flight to Minsk and arrested a dissident.
The Lithuanian government has strengthened security measures at the border and blocked the entry of illegal migrants.
Iraq is repatriating its citizens from Belarus, organizing special flights for their return home, and the Iraqi Airlines airline has suspended flights to Minsk so that people do not make trips, or rather escape from the country.
Iraqi President Barham Salih and his Lithuanian counterpart spoke on Thursday. Salih said that it is important to protect the rights of migrants, the Iraqi government is investigating human trafficking networks to find out who is transporting Iraqi migrants.
The Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Lithuania, Arnoldas Abromavicius, said that he doubted that any of the Iraqis who crossed the border would be granted refugee status in his country, and offered to pay for their flight home.
Source Ezdina
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