Iraq: the origins of the migration crisis

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A crowd of migrants crowds around a humanitarian aid truck at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, on Friday, November 12, 2021. AP - Ramil Nasibulin

By: Lucile Wassermann Follow

For months, men, women and children have been joining Belarus to try to cross into Poland.

Desperate to reach Europe, they brave the cold, hunger, thirst, even death, to escape their country of origin.

They come from Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria ... but also and above all from the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. 

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Often described as a haven of peace in the middle of an area plagued by conflict, this province has been deserted by its inhabitants for decades.

What are they fleeing and how do they leave?

Our correspondent went to meet them in their region.

"Iraq: the origins of the migration crisis", a Grand report by Lucile Wassermann.

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