You can highlight the crimes and abuses of the #Belarus dictatorship as much as you want, but that doesn't change any of those 5 points.
In fact, those crimes and abuses only highlight the reasons why #Poland shouldn't be pushing people back there.
And @hallamohieddeen's point about the Polish government keeping the media out is absolutely spot on, as well.
They know they are breaking the law & abusing people, and they don't want the world to see it.
#Poland's blocking of media (with EU backing) also belies the entire Poland-EU ideology on migrants. They say they are doing what the general public wants...
...but they block the media from showing us what they're doing.
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This shows they know full well that extremist voices are few. They know that, apart from a few fascists, EU citizens are not sadists, and if we saw what was happening there, we'd be disgusted.
They resist the humanity of the majority…
…to side with an extremist minority.
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"Although the situation is the result of the reprehensible actions by #Belarus, this does not absolve #Poland from its human rights obligations. An approach must be found that puts human beings first & ensures respect for their dignity & human rights." coe.int/en/web/commiss…
Everyone looking at #Poland-#Belarus right now should read in full the statement from the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, @Dunja_Mijatovic...
...this part in particular, on Poland's failure to uphold its obligations, which is getting far too little attention:
Also, the Commissioner stresses that dealing with the current situation should not just fall on #Poland’s shoulders.
“This is a European issue which requires a human rights-centred response based on solidarity and European values and standards.”
Would you save them in a boat?
Would you rescue lives afloat?
We will not save them in a boat.
We will not save those lives afloat.
Would you save lives in a wood?
Would you, would you, if you could?
Not in a wood. No, that is no good.
Not on a bus, not from Belarus.
Not on the beach, not on the sand.
Not down in Greece, not up in Poland.
What then do you fear?
A thousand there, a hundred here?
These are such small numbers.
You risk looking like a big bunch of dumb bumblers.
Over twenty score million, that’s how big we are.
They’re a drop in the bucket. No problem, by far.
Dear @balazs_iravju: Could you answer this question for us?
I’m going to guess he won’t answer, because the Commission actually doesn’t know where that money’s going. It would be embarrassing to say that, wouldn’t it?
“If there is a hoovering up of vaccines for the boosters, that is just going to have a global consequences that are really quite extreme, and everybody needs to know that,” he said.
Of course, some might argue that this has been the pharma companies' plan all along...
A person from the humanitarian side just asked me a question:
Rather than ignoring trapped civilians, would the EU have already announced humanitarian assistance for them were this not on the #Poland-#Belarus border? If it were elsewhere?
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If it were elsewhere on the EU border, I'd say no. The EU has been turning a blind eye to abuses or is downright complicit in abuses in, for example, the central Med: hrw.org/news/2021/11/0…
3 days ago, on Sunday, @balazs_iravju, EU Commission spokesperson for humanitarian aid & crisis started following me - just after I’d been tweeting on the EU's "let them all die" policy re #Poland-#Belarus.
Did he try to defend the policy?
Nope.
A self-damning silence.
I've tried many times to get him to speak, both in public and in DM...