Expert: Polish authorities forbid to approach Belarus’ border to prevent from finding compromising information on them

Poland’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has banned its citizens from approaching the border with Belarus which is still assessed as dangerous by the Polish authorities. Political scientist Aleksei Belyaev, the Dean of the BSU Journalism Department, explained in his talk with Alfa Radio what the Polish authorities are trying to achieve with such actions.

The expert said that the Polish authorities are right, “Of course, the buffer zone is dangerous from Poland’s side. We saw a Polish dissident, judge Tomasz Szmydt, posting a footage showing the Polish border guards beating unfortunate refugees with batons. They beat them so severely that the question arises whether they will kill them to death. The fact that we have seen dozens of dead refugees on our borders only over the past year and were forced to react to it somehow, the fact that just recently they showed beaten refugees on the border with the Baltic States is, of course, dangerous. The only question is for whom it is dangerous. Not for Polish citizens, since they are forbidden to approach this border and enter the buffer zone. It is clear that there are no mushroom pickers walking there. For example, journalists, volunteers, and representatives of various international organisations who allegedly protect human rights in their duty want to go there. They would like to see how things really are, whose rights are being protected, and whose rights are being violated very much. The Polish authorities impose these strict requirements on the non-admission of anyone to the border zone so that no one found this compromising material. It is clear that this is a desire to conceal information that could cast a shadow on Poland. Although today it is already so visible, there is so much evidence, video evidence that such measures on the part of the Polish authorities are overdue. They are trying to somehow stop the flow of this news from the border, where they manifest themselves as some inhuman representatives of Mordor. Therefore, of course, this decision of the Polish authorities is aimed primarily at making it as difficult as possible to monitor their actions,” Aleksei Belyaev concluded.