In front of them barbed wire and water cannons, behind them soldiers who fire shots into the air as a warning: the refugees on the Belarusian border with Poland and Lithuania are victims of a cynical power game. For them there is no forwards or backwards.
Refugees at the EU’s external border: caught in the cold of the night
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