SecondApproximately 30 people from Afghanistan were allegedly trapped on the border between Belarus and Poland for three weeks. People wanted to travel from Belarus to Poland, an EU country near the small village of Usnarz Górny, but they were prevented from crossing the border by Polish security forces. The Polish border guards also did not let anyone pass from the other side: they prevented human rights activists, parliamentarians and priests from bringing food, blankets and medicine to the group. Dramatic events on the border have always been the topic of Polish media.
But since Thursday, Usnarz Górny’s incident has been concealed from the public: the President Anjay Duda A state of emergency has been declared for 30 days in a 3 km wide strip on the border between Poland and Belarus. This means only allowing residents and security forces to stay in the area, prohibiting people from gathering there, and restricting access to all information, “this is related to measures to protect national borders and combat illegal immigration.”
The Parliament, the House of Commons, must retroactively approve the implementation of the state of emergency-this will happen on Monday at the latest. In mid-August, the National Conservative government, which declared a state of emergency at Duda’s request, lost its majority in the House of Commons in a dispute over a law against the most important non-governmental (and therefore anti-government) television station. However, because the far-right coalition has approved it, despite the angry protests from the opposition, the prospects for maintaining the state of emergency are good.
She believes that this is unique in the history of democratic Poland after 1989 and is a strategy of national conservatives. Pee Want to distract them from their growing troubles. Recent surveys have shown that this calculation is feasible: PiS’s hard-line stance on refugees and the strong emphasis on the topic by the official media initially slowed the trend of opinion polls, which worries the government.
The government claims that there is a serious threat to the border with Belarus. There is no doubt that the ruler of Minsk, Alexander Lukashenko, actually wanted to use refugees to destabilize the EU’s neighboring countries. Since the beginning of the summer, the number of people from Iraq, Africa and now Afghanistan has increased rapidly. They have been trying to illegally enter Lithuania, Latvia and Poland through Belarus. This is his revenge for the sanctions. I Lukashenko himself publicly stated that he was imposed on his regime because of the brutal suppression of the Belarusian democratic movement.
There are many signs that his regime acts as smugglers and smugglers, bringing people into the country and then bringing them to the border. Lithuanian border guards saw Belarusian security forces forcing people to enter the border. According to official information from the Warsaw government, it detected 3,500 illegal border crossing attempts in August, of which about 2,500 were blocked. Belarus’s three EU neighbors are now starting to erect border fences.
Critics are insulted as Russian agents of influence
The Polish opposition also agreed that the country’s eastern border must be secured.However, like several Catholic bishops, she called for humane treatment of those who were exploited by Lukashenko refugeeAnd she is convinced that the state of emergency is unnecessary—especially because Defense Minister Mariusz Blasczak announced earlier this week that Poland does not need any help from the European Union’s border protection agency Frontex and that the situation has been brought under control.
But now the national conservatives associate refugees with the second topic: the Russian-Belarusian military exercise Sapad-2021, which is expected to start next week, with more than 100,000 soldiers in western Russia and Belarus. President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday that it is not difficult to see the connection between the “man-made crisis” caused by the Lukashenko regime at the border and this major exercise. Various PiS politicians are obsessed with speculating about possible provocations during the exercise and speculating that Lukashenko will test the Polish border on behalf of Putin.
This is usually related to claims that the opposition and critical media are flooded with Russian agents who want to undermine Poland’s security by criticizing the government’s actions. President Duda also talked about the “anti-Polish” actions of the opposition. The opposition also accused PiS of categorically refusing to implement a state of emergency by consensus of all parties during the first corona wave last year. At the time, the opposition believed that this was a legitimate means to postpone the presidential election originally scheduled for May. PiS wanted to prevent the postponement of the election at the time-it clearly saw an easy victory for its candidate Andrzej Duda under pandemic conditions. After a long debate, Du Da was the winner of the postponed election-but the result was very close.
