V. Valentinavičius after meetings with immigrants: Lithuania, where are you? Is the EU still here?



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“When the ministers passed and rejoiced in the container houses donated by Austria, D. Ulbinaitė was a child journalist of mine, the migrants lived a normal life by themselves, in stress and cold, despair and horror.

Photo by Valdas Kopūstas / 15min / Vytautas Valentinavičius

Photo by Valdas Kopūstas / 15min / Vytautas Valentinavičius

We talk, we communicate without saving time and health, we move from camp to camp and so on from day to day. We finish work late at night, describe, reflect, go to bed after midnight – and in the morning and again to them, as they say, to those who are not interested in anyone, to those who are left alone – without knowledge of his future, without hope. , and without faith. “, – V. Valentinavičius writes on Facebook.

“Lithuania is not worthy of the European Union”, we heard one voice, “Lithuania is not worthy of respect”, we heard another. We keep quiet, we listen patiently, we speak, we calm down. After all, we understand that they are part of Lithuania’s “deterrence” strategy, in which there is no place for humanity. A group of asylum seekers surrounded us, also scared with tears in their eyes, ”writes the head of the Human Rights Office.

According to him, the migrants living in the countryside cry and tell him that they are more afraid of the night in Lithuania than of the night on the border between Belarus and Lithuania.

“We ask why? “We are surrounded by armed soldiers, with machine guns, we are afraid of them, we cannot explain to the children why they are here, what awaits us.” Another woman explains that where soldiers with machine guns are in danger and under duress, they cannot fall asleep at night. I realized that I was probably having horrible experiences. I shudder at the thought, I don’t even know what to say when I realized what this woman might have experienced. Thought, grass, thought.

I am a human being, but politicians require me to be a civil servant, which means that I am not a human being. After a few moments surezzgu sentence. I reply, “they protect you,” but I hear the question. “About what?” I try to ignore the question.

We speak of cold and suffering, of anxiety and humanization. Suddenly, our conversation is interrupted by a loud muffled sound: a thump on the ground. Atisuku: a man who has had an epileptic seizure is lying on the ground, shaking and shaking convulsively (this is the first time I have seen an epileptic seizure).

The passengers from Iraq flee, put him on his side, hug him, hug him, caress his head, hands, warm his bare feet, like the father of his son. The officer who is nearby looks at me with a penetrating and penetrating look as if asking for help, help, and in a low voice he says “it is every day, we despair”.

The idea is the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the European Convention on Human Rights, the Convention against Torture. Lithuania – where are you? Who are you with? Are you still here in the European Union? ”, V.Valentinavičius writes on Facebook.

V.Valentinavičius has previously shared his impressions from the border. This time, the head of the Human Rights Office was criticized by the Minister of the Interior, Agnė Bilotaitė. “Unfortunately it was not done very correctly, I came up with a certain conclusion or assessment through my social account, I believe that public officials and public officials should not work like that,” he said this time.

15 minutes recalls that Lithuania has been criticized by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights for the treatment of immigrants. In a letter to Prime Minister Ingrid Šimonyte, Dunja Mijatovič expressed concern about laws that she claims restrict the right to seek political asylum.

It was reported late Wednesday that the European Court of Human Rights had issued a temporary order to Latvia and Poland to provide assistance to two groups of migrants who tried to enter the European Union illegally from Belarus.



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