Iraqi migrants who traveled to Belarus in recent weeks -- spending their life savings on airfare and waiting in limbo in freezing makeshift camps in the hopes of crossing into Europe -- are now being sent back home.
The Iraqi government on Thursday will begin to repatriate citizens who requested to leave after a monthslong standoff on the Belarus-Poland border left them defeated, their dreams of a new life dashed. About 430 Iraqi citizens who were transferred from the border to Belarus' capital Minsk were set to be evacuated on an Iraqi Airways plane on Thursday, the Iraqi Transportation Ministry said in a statement.
Poland is under fire by international aid organizations who say they are violating international law by pushing asylum seekers back into Belarus, instead of accepting their applications for international protection. Poland stands by its actions, saying they are legal.Authorities on the other side of the border in Belarus told CNN on Wednesday they were waiting to hear from officials in Munich about a possible"humanitarian corridor" to ferry migrants into the country.
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