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A man stands by the fence at the newly built refugee camp in the Rudninkai military training ground, some 23 miles south from Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, August 4, 2021
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THERE was little respect for international human rights laws at the European Union’s edges today, with migrants continuing to be used as pawns in the battle between Belarus and Brussels and over 800 refugees in the Mediterranean waiting to be allowed ashore.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ordered his security forces to “close every metre of the border" with Lithuania.
“Starting from today, not a single person should set foot on the territory of Belarus from the adjacent side, be it from the south or from the west,” he said.
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
