Desperate Iraqis the latest pawn in Belarus standoff with EU

Yazidi children play in the Esyan camp in northern Iraq

An increasing number of migrants and asylum seekers have been crossing irregularly from Belarus into Lithuania, but Lithuania says this is a “hybrid attack” and not a refugee crisis. Most are Iraqis and many are from Iraq’s Yazidi minority.

CBC | World News

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