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	Podcast:		The Debate
	Episode:		Weaponizing migrants? Belarus in border push against EU neighbours
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:40:47
	Publish Date:		2021-10-18 18:05:50
	Description:		Expendable pawns in a cynical game of chess: At least seven migrants have died in the freezing no-man's land at Belarus' border with the European Union, Minsk under sanctions over last year's post-electoral crackdown ordered by strongman Alexander Lukashenko. His regime is accused of encouraging charter flights from Iraq and Turkey and then sending them towards the border. Neighboring Lithuania wonders how thousands have come their way compared with 80 migrants for all of 2020.
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