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Syrians in Belarus

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Syrians say Belarus deported them even though they’re wanted by Assad’s regime

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/24/1066806101/belarus-poland-border-deported-syria-migrants

After engineering a migrant crisis at the borders of the EU, Belarus is now seeking to send those who failed to cross into Poland or other EU countries back to where they came from — often with little regard for their safety, say migrants and human rights groups.

U.S. and European officials and refugee advocates accuse the regime of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko of using migrants as a “political weapon” in retaliation for sanctions.

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More on using refugees as a political weapon
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/refugeesandmigrants/2017/01/07/weapons-of-mass-migration/

Afghan in the Balkans

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‘Police searched my baby’s nappy’: migrant families on the perilous Balkan route

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/01/balkan-route-migrants-croatia-bosnia-border

“Out of a total of about 8,000 migrants in Bosnia, about 2,000 people are basically left to fend for themselves in abandoned buildings, squats, makeshift settlements and in forests,” Nicola Bay, the Danish Refugee Council’s Bosnia director, says. “These people include families, children and unaccompanied minors that have practically no shelter, no access to basic services and no access to proper healthcare.”

Jordan vaccinate refugees

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Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, praised Jordanian authorities for including refugees in its national response plan and urged other countries to do the same. Jordan became the first country to vaccinate refugees against covid from r/worldnews

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/covid-19-jordan-first-country-world-vaccinate-refugees

Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, praised Jordanian authorities for including refugees in its national response plan and urged other countries to do the same.