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In a letter to the commander of the 8th KASP Grand Combat District team, signed on Tuesday, which reached and 15 minutessays the soldier on Monday, August 9, on duty in the Šalčininkai district, when around 3.30 p.m. At the same time, the former border guards received reports that a group of 11 migrants had been detained in a settlement, including four children and three women.
He says he does not remember the exact name of the settlement.
He claimed to have seen defenseless people
According to the soldier, the migrants were completely helpless, thirsty and exhausted, with some women and children crying.
“They were all just pathetic and it seemed to me that they had come a long way here,” he said in a statement.
In his letter, the soldier claims that he heard that the border guards initially recognized the plight of the migrants, but soon began to say that they should be misled, to say that they would take them to a refugee reception center, but in reality they would return them. to Belarus.
Upon realizing this, the soldier claims to have approached the border guards, but has been ordered not to intervene. The man claims to have asked which of the border guards is the greatest, but they have declined to point out.
According to the soldier, he later saw an SBGS officer collect all the migrants’ phones in his backpack, so he started filming and asking why it was being done.
Then he claims to have also received the attention of agents of the Military Police.
“A military policeman took me aside, asked me to introduce myself and asked for my certificate. “After writing everything down and not answering where and how I could report a possible violation of international law, I began to demand that he stop filming,” the letter says.
Soon the man claims to have received instructions to search for other migrants, and he did so, so he does not know the future fate of this group.
However, not all the details of the soldier’s message seem to correspond to reality.
Says he didn’t detain migrants that day
State Border Guard Service 15 minutes He reported that the last detention of migrants in Šalčininkai district was recorded on August 6, not 9. Then exactly 11 people were detained.
The Army – We see this as a unique case of a warrior’s thrill breakthrough.
At that time, the Lithuanian Armed Forces confirmed that this situation is known, but not taken seriously.
“Such a message has been received, but we consider it as a single case of personal outburst of emotions (mentioned soldier),” it is written. 15 minutes in the answer provided.
“The soldiers of the Voluntary Forces of National Defense have worked well with the State Border Guard Service and at the same time have successfully carried out surveillance tasks on the country’s border,” emphasizes the army.
15 minutes knowledge, the mobile phones of detained migrants are actually taken – for verification, then the phones are returned.
More than 4 thousand. people
This year, more than 4,000 people entered Lithuania through the border with Belarus. migrants who have crossed the border illegally.
Lithuanian officials call the increased migration flows a hybrid aggression by the Belarusian regime. As a result, a state of emergency has been declared in the country.
The recent decision to turn around those trying to cross the border illegally or who have already crossed the border has significantly reduced the flow of people.
Vytautas Valentinavičius, the head of the Human Rights Office of the Seimas Ombudsman’s Office, who spent the night last week at the border, expressed doubts as to whether people’s rights are really mentioned there.
These statements were soon criticized by the Interior Minister, Agnė Bilotaitė, and some other politicians for downplaying crisis management.
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