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Polish soldier seeks asylum in Belarus – reports
https://www.rt.com/russia/543549-polish-soldier-asylum-belarus/ ^ | December 17, 2021

Posted on 12/17/2021 10:22:14 AM PST by NorseViking

A Polish soldier has crossed the border into Belarus and is seeking asylum, insisting that he is opposed to his government's response to the migration crisis, local media and officials in Minsk reported on Friday. The Belarusian Border Committee announced on Friday that Emil Czeczko, a member of Poland's 16th Pomeranian Mechanized Division, had defected and crossed over the night before. Czeczko had apparently been one of the thousands of troops stationed on the frontier to stop refugees living in camps in the region from entering Poland. Belarusian officials said he fled the country because of disagreement with his government's "policy regarding the migration crisis and the practice of inhuman treatment of refugees."

On Friday, Czeczko appeared in an interview on Belarusian state TV channel ATN, where he said that during his time on the border, he saw two Polish volunteers get shot and killed after coming to the region to assist refugees. However, there have been no reports of missing humanitarian workers, and he did not provide evidence to substantiate his claims.

Belarus has previously accused Poland of mistreating the tens of thousands of migrants, mostly Middle Eastern, who are seeking asylum in the country. Polish authorities, meanwhile, have cited reports of violence on the Belarusian side, and have accused Minsk of purposefully sparking the crisis, in retaliation for economic sanctions, by bringing desperate people into the country and funneling them to the border. Alexander Lukashenko, the long-time leader of Belarus, has said that it's possible people in his government have assisted migrants in attempts to storm the border, but insisted that this wasn't worth looking into.

(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: belarus; poland; russia; ukraine
Reporting on Czeczko's defection, Polish media argued that his story, including the two purported deaths, is part of the narrative that Lukashenko has put forth throughout the crisis. Tadeusz Giczan, a journalist from banned Belarusian news site NEXTA and lobbyist at the NATO-funded CEPA, also accused officials of using Czeczko for propaganda purposes.

The 16th Mechanized Division issued a statement Friday morning confirming that a soldier was missing and stating that a search was underway. Later in the day, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak tweeted that the missing soldier had serious problems and had previously requested to leave the army, writing, "he should never have been assigned for service at the border" and promising an investigation.

In November, an American citizen named Evan Neumann told RT he had decided to seek asylum in Belarus because he was wanted in the US for involvement in storming the Capitol building in Washington on January 6. Neumann said he had crossed into Belarus on foot from Ukraine, where he had previously fled, because he was afraid of possible extradition by American authorities.

1 posted on 12/17/2021 10:22:14 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

This is why you wait until the shooting starts to put the crazies on the front line.


2 posted on 12/17/2021 10:45:20 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: NorseViking

3 posted on 12/17/2021 10:51:20 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: NorseViking

Cowardice in the face of the enemy?


4 posted on 12/17/2021 10:55:46 AM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: NorseViking

Interesting, certainly Polish troops are much more harsh in their treatment of “migrants” than ICE or Border Patrol are allowed to be.


5 posted on 12/17/2021 11:17:35 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

That’s a dog and pony show. The Iraqis were coming to Germany through the Belarusian/Polish border for years, and it was a lucrative business for the Polish border guards and organized crime.
Now it’s an “invasion” and the EU is standing for Poland, although Italy and Greece dealing with 100 times the number of “refugees” are derided for trying to stop them.
The UK is moving troops to Poland to stop the “invasion” of 700 people, even though thousands of Africans and Middle Easterners are coming to the UK through France every day.


6 posted on 12/17/2021 11:33:26 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: dynachrome

Cowardice in the face of the enemy?


Usually when you dig a little deeper in these instances you find that the ‘high-minded’ soldier was what my Marine father would call “a Sh*tbird”.


7 posted on 12/17/2021 11:39:00 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: NorseViking

Figured it was US policy caused illegal immigrants weaponized for use against Belarus and Russia.


8 posted on 12/17/2021 1:04:15 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: NorseViking; All
The Iraqis were coming to Germany through the Belarusian/Polish border for years

Holy shit Norse, you dirty Russian lying bastard, if it's not enough to attack the Ukrainians to back up your shitty Russian government, now you're even spreading propaganda making the Poles the bad guys with the Belarus/Russkie plot to flood Poland with Muslims?

Which government was it that was condemning Poland as anti-humanitarian and demanding they open their borders to thousands of Iraqis massed at the border?

Why, it was Russia, demanding it from their spokesman and on social media. And here you are, lying propagandist that you are, pretending it was always going on but the eeevil Poles have decided to make a big fuss about it!

9 posted on 12/17/2021 2:37:10 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Would you explain me why a million aliens storming Italy aren’t a big deal, but 700 aliens in Poland make an Apocalipse?

Did you hear about a Dublin agreement on refugees?


10 posted on 12/17/2021 3:38:06 PM PST by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking
Would you explain me why a million aliens storming Italy aren’t a big deal,

Who says they aren't, troll?

but 700 aliens

You tell me, troll. You're repeating Russian propaganda points about the "Dublin Accords." Surely YOU know why Russia cares about illegal aliens on the border of Poland and Belarus, and why Russia wants them to enter Poland. Or maybe your supervisors at the bot farm don't explain the intricacies of various propaganda operations to retards like you without a high school education?

11 posted on 12/17/2021 10:42:01 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I remember the EU reprimanding Italy and Greece for trying to stop these people.

Thousands are still coming every day, including to the UK, where they don’t care about own border but sending their troops to Poland to stop the “invasion” instead. How queer is that?

What Russian propaganda regarding the Dublin accords? According to the Dublin accords, whatever aliens claiming asylum at the border need admitted and housed until their claims processed.

Why should Russia be silent on Poland dousing poor souls with water canons instead in the gross violation of the EU regulations? There are even reports of the Polish killing of the activists who help aliens, coming from the Polish military defectors to Belarus.

Poland likes to shoot her month regarding human rights in Russia and Belarus, mostly over phony made-up cases.

Now we have blatant atrocities on the part of the rogue Polish regime and you say it shouldn’t be addressed. Why so?


12 posted on 12/18/2021 1:18:32 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking
Now we have blatant atrocities on the part of the rogue Polish regime

Why don't you focus on your favorite past time instead of worrying about what Poland does on its border, Ivan? Raping male Muslims in Chechnya is more the style of your country!:

"According to Andrei Mironov of the Russian human rights organization Memorial, as cited by Miriam Lanskoy of Boston University, Russian forces stationed in Chechnya recently committed an organized mass rape of Chechen civilian males. During a fact-finding trip to the North Caucasus, Mironov learned of an incident which took place earlier this month: “Over 700 men (I was given a list of 762 names) were taken to a field. They [the Russian soldiers] raped a woman in front of them.” The Russian troops, Mironov related, then taunted the Chechen men, calling on them to defend the woman’s honor. Those who intervened, sixty-two men, were themselves then “handcuffed to an armored personnel carrier, and publicly raped.” “Never before have I heard about public rape,” Mironov commented, “Of course, people were systematically raped in prisons and detention centers, and [in] military units. This was intended to break their character. But now this is being done in public.” Mironov added that many of the Chechen men who had been publicly raped vowed that they would now become suicide attackers (Eurasianet, July 19)."

https://jamestown.org/program/mass-rape-of-chechen-men-by-federal-forces-2/

Of course, the second favorite past time of the Russian soldier is raping his bunk mates!:

“I know they’d turned all the other young ones out before me. If that evening was my turn, I had nowhere to go, what should I have done?” Shamsutdinov reportedly said.

His father, Salimzhan Shamsutdinov, said earlier in the day that “constant, prolonged” hazing drove his son to carry out the mass shooting.

In comments to Russian media, he recounted his son telling him: “I’m sorry father, I couldn’t have done otherwise. Either they’d kill me or I’d kill them.” Shamsutdinov does not regret his “deliberate” actions, the father said.

Meanwhile, the head of a group called Officers of Russia denied the existence of hazing in the national armed forces and instead blamed violent video games for Shamsutdinov’s actions."

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/11/06/they-warned-theyll-rape-me-russian-soldier-stands-by-mass-shooting-a68062

Go do that, you stupid Russian troll, instead of spreading anti-Poland propaganda on this forum.

13 posted on 12/18/2021 2:45:32 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I generally think that every country needs to protect its borders, but official Poland disagrees as evident by being a signatory of Dublin. It is their own rules. How do they want to have a cake and eat it too?

Your Chechen stuff is exactly what I am talking about. These rape stories are absolutely phony and simply fantastic, where the Polish violations are clear as day for everyone to see.


14 posted on 12/18/2021 4:56:37 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking
These rape stories are absolutely phony and simply fantastic

Ivan, it's not fantastic if a google search finds hundreds of different such stories happening all the time from Russian sources!

You just don't want FReepers to know about the dirty predilections of the Russian military.

As far barbarian hordes go, at least the Mongols only raped the women. The Russian orcs and goblins prefer the men!

15 posted on 12/18/2021 2:23:31 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

You are a moron, Puny. The stories of Muslims mistreated by the Russian Army is a stupid propaganda perpetrated by the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, leg by Carter’s FP ‘geniuses’ Brzezinski and Heig.
They instruct the Chechens to make up the stories to get asylum in the US were they themselves are raping and pillaging.
Aren’t Tsarnaev brothers and their thieving mother ring the bell?
The FSB warned FBI for two years before they blown the Boston marathon.


16 posted on 12/18/2021 6:47:00 PM PST by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

Leg=led, were=where.


17 posted on 12/18/2021 6:49:59 PM PST by NorseViking
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