A Syrian migrant faces the horrors to save his parents on the border of Poland and Belarus
Syrian immigrant "Jordi" during an interview with "Reuters" in Poland.
Reuters
Jordi, a Syrian Kurd living in Austria, ventures to Poland at the risk of arrest in a desperate attempt to rescue his parents trapped in the woods on the Belarus-Poland border, with nothing but water and little food.
A barbed wire fence erected by the Warsaw authorities during the state of emergency is sticking teeth in the faces of thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa hoping to enter Poland, a member of the European Union, through Belarus.
The European Union says the influx of migrants is taking place under the watchful eye and even supervision of Belarus, in response to sanctions imposed on it for human rights violations.
But human rights groups accuse Poland of violating the international right to asylum, by pushing migrants back to Belarus rather than accepting their applications for protection, but Poland argues that its actions are justified.
Under these harsh and turbulent conditions, Jordi is now staying in a hotel in the eastern Polish town of Simiaيكczy, just 30 kilometers from the border, with very few relatives of migrants stranded on the other side of the border, with the only hope of helping his parents cross. to safety. Jordi says he bought two tickets for his parents from Syria to Minsk in mid-October. While preparing to travel, he believed that the smuggler would take them from the border and take them to his home in Austria. But when his parents reached the isolated border region by road from Minsk and tried to cross, his mother was shot in the leg. Jordi, who is communicating with his father and mother by text and voice messages, said he knew his mother had been taken to a nearby Polish hospital, but that she was discharged without proper treatment and then sent back with his father to Belarus.
A hospital spokesperson said it was not possible to check out patients before treatment was completed, but did not comment on Jordi's mother's condition, citing confidentiality about the patient's condition.
Jordi showed "Reuters" video footage of the bush area where his parents were trapped with 300 other migrants, waiting for the unknown with the approach of winter.
The man said: “My mother sometimes refuses to talk to me,” explaining that she has become more interested in writing to him, so that he does not notice the exhaustion stuck in her tone of voice.
Jordi tried several times to approach the border, but the police would turn him back each time.
"Even if they stop me, no law in the world can prevent me from helping my parents," he told Reuters near his hotel.
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