“I did that too”: a deserter Pole who took refuge in Belarus confessed to intentional killings at the border

The soldier who escaped from Poland to the Republic of Belarus made a shocking confession. According to Emil Chechko, he was involved in the murders of refugees and volunteers who helped them, the Belarusian state television reported.

Polish border guards allegedly “exhibited the first group (migrants – Rosbalt), they killed them, then the second group, they were also killed ”. “I did that too – I shot,” the soldier said on the air of “Belarus 1”.

So, says Chechko, together with illegal immigrants, at least two volunteers were shot.

However, the Polish Interior Ministry called the deserter’s story a lie. According to the deputy head of the department, Machei Wonsik, such “improbable” events at the border could not have happened. The silovik stressed that there is not a single humanitarian organization that would declare the disappearance of its workers in the zone of the migration crisis between Belarus and Poland, Polish Radio reports.

Vonsik also called Chechko “an unhappy young man.”

In turn, the press secretary of the minister-coordinator of the Polish special services Stanislav Zharin noted that 5-7 thousand illegal migrants remain in Belarus, despite the fact that “some are sent by flights from Minsk to Iraq or Syria.” So, in his words, “plus or minus 4 thousand people” managed to fly home.

The 25-year-old soldier Chechko left the location of the 11th Mazurian artillery regiment last week and deserted to Belarus, asking for political asylum there. The military man explained his act by disagreement with Warsaw’s policy regarding the accumulation of migrants.

Meanwhile, it is not the first time that international human rights activists have accused not only Belarus, but also Poland of cruel treatment of refugees. Today Amnesty International has filed new accusations against Warsaw.