Hundreds of migrants live in a Belarusian warehouse

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Parsa Akram currently lives under a warehouse shelf with her mother, father, and brother. The area is approximately 2 meters broad. Her mother and the 18-year-old sleep in a tent, while her brother and father sleep on the ground.

They are among hundreds of refugees, largely from Iraqi Kurdistan, who have taken up residence in a warehouse about a mile from Belarus’ Polish border, caught up in a migratory problem that has not yet been resolved.

The Bruzgi warehouse is not a refugee camp; it is only a packaging facility, similar to those used by Amazon or FedEx to store products. People are now living on the tops of shelf stacks that were once used to store shipments. Families like the Akrams have crammed into the crevices beneath the shelves, while some have climbed to the higher levels to build nest-like beds.

“It’s not a camp,” Parsa said. “It’s a chicken house!”.

Thousands of migrants, mostly from the Middle East, have been trapped between Belarus and Poland for months, the result of a crisis allegedly orchestrated by Belarus’ authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, who is accused of luring them to Europe’s border in retaliation for the European Union’s support for Belarus’ pro-democracy movement.

The migrants, who were mostly attempting to reach Western Europe, were stopped by Poland and Lithuania, who stranded them in forests near the border for weeks, often without food or shelter.

Source: yahoo news

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