Migrants brave dangers to return to Kurdistan from Belarus - analysis

20,000 people are in Belarus and became stuck trying to cross into Poland and move to Europe. Some of them are Kurds and also Yazidi survivors of genocide.

Migrants use wire cutters to cut the barbed wire as they try to cross the Belarus/Poland border near Kuznica Bialostocka, Poland, in this video-grab released by the Polish Defence Ministry, November 8, 2021.

(photo credit: MON/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)

BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

NOVEMBER 22, 2021 14:30

Updated: NOVEMBER 22, 2021 15:34

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