Due to the situation with illegal migrants, flights to Iraq-Belarus have been stopped
The German government successfully negotiated with Baghdad to stop the flights of Iraqi migrants, including Yezidi refugees to Belarus.
Since the beginning of 2021, thousands of migrants from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, and Kurdistan have flown to Belarus to cross the border on foot to Lithuania, Latvia or Poland and reach Western European countries. According to available statistics, in October alone, the German authorities registered a total of 4,889 unauthorized intruders from Belarus.
Since January 2021, almost 40,000 citizens, including Yezidi families, have left Iraq for migration. Over the past eight months, 37,250 Iraqis have left Iraq, of which 10 have died and 12 are missing. There is 1 Yazidi woman among the dead.
There are great difficulties in managing migration in Iraq, including solving the problem of accommodating many internally displaced persons (IDPs), poor infrastructure, poverty, as well as the lack of effective management of growing unemployment.
Many Yazidi migrants, including from Iraq and Kurdistan, are stuck in the border areas of Belarus.
Now hundreds of migrants from Kurdistan are in terrible conditions in detention centers in Lithuania.
A source of the Kurdistan24 TV channel reported that people detained as illegal migrants are kept in cramped and unsanitary conditions, which is why they started scabies.
Among the nearly 700 people held in several buildings known as Kibartu prison are 130 migrants from Kurdistan.
"The guards wanted to force the blindfolded prisoners to sign a paper saying they wanted to return to Iraq," the sources added. Then prison officials took the prisoners' phones and transported them to an unknown location," the report added.
A migrant detained in one of the institutions said that women and children are panicking because they have been separated from their husbands and fathers, as well as because of ill-treatment. Many women signed a commitment to return to Iraq under pressure.
Ezdina
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Due to the situation with illegal migrants, flights to Iraq-Belarus have been stopped
The German government successfully negotiated with Baghdad to stop the flights of Iraqi migrants, including Yezidi refugees to Belarus.
Since the beginning of 2021, thousands of migrants from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, and Kurdistan have flown to Belarus to cross the border on foot to Lithuania, Latvia or Poland and reach Western European countries. According to available statistics, in October alone, the German authorities registered a total of 4,889 unauthorized intruders from Belarus.
Since January 2021, almost 40,000 citizens, including Yezidi families, have left Iraq for migration. Over the past eight months, 37,250 Iraqis have left Iraq, of which 10 have died and 12 are missing. There is 1 Yazidi woman among the dead.
There are great difficulties in managing migration in Iraq, including solving the problem of accommodating many internally displaced persons (IDPs), poor infrastructure, poverty, as well as the lack of effective management of growing unemployment.
Many Yazidi migrants, including from Iraq and Kurdistan, are stuck in the border areas of Belarus.
Now hundreds of migrants from Kurdistan are in terrible conditions in detention centers in Lithuania.
A source of the Kurdistan24 TV channel reported that people detained as illegal migrants are kept in cramped and unsanitary conditions, which is why they started scabies.
Among the nearly 700 people held in several buildings known as Kibartu prison are 130 migrants from Kurdistan.
"The guards wanted to force the blindfolded prisoners to sign a paper saying they wanted to return to Iraq," the sources added. Then prison officials took the prisoners' phones and transported them to an unknown location," the report added.
A migrant detained in one of the institutions said that women and children are panicking because they have been separated from their husbands and fathers, as well as because of ill-treatment. Many women signed a commitment to return to Iraq under pressure.
Ezdina
Tags: #yazidisinfo #newsyazidi #aboutyazidi #migrantsyazidis
