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Anonymous ID: cbcc3e Nov. 11, 2021, 5:08 a.m. No.14974100   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Why is Epstein spending $29mm to bury the tunnels underneath is temple on Epstein Island?

Problem.

Phones were allowed in.

These people are stupid.

Anonymous ID: cbcc3e Nov. 11, 2021, 5:30 a.m. No.14974207   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/11/dispatch-inside-polands-border-zone-quiet-war-humanitarian-crisis/

Inside Poland's border zone where a quiet war and humanitarian crisis is unfolding

We used to love the forest, but now it's a place of human suffering, say locals

For most of her life, Kasia Wappa has enjoyed the privilege of living near Poland’s Bialowieza national park

Home to wolves, lynx, and the last wild population of European bison, it is one of the world’s last true wilderness and attracts tourists from around the world.

But what she has seen in the forest over the past two months has left her shaken.

“It is a humanitarian crisis on a scale not seen here since the Second World War,” she said in an interview at her home in Hajnowka, a town on the forest’s western edge. “We used to love the forest, to walk the dog there. Now it is a place of human suffering.”

In fact, she added, “it is a war. But it is a war on the quiet In a regular war bombs are falling and houses are collapsing. But because on the surface it looks normal here, some people say what is happening is fake news.”

That infuriates her.

Emaciated groups of Middle Eastern immigrants first began to emerge from the woods here in September, to the surprise of locals who know only too well how impassable the forest can be.

Most had spent days on end without food or water in the wilderness. They were generally suffering from hypothermia and exhaustion, and often sick from drinking swamp water.

Horrified, a number of locals who had previously banded together to fight a government plan to log the forest in 2017 activated the same networks to offer some kind of help.

Mrs Wappa, a local English teacher, began by donating warm clothes and ended up helping rescue parties retrieve starving people from the woods. But the flow of migrants has only increased, and she warns that many probably never make it.

“People say about 10 victims have been confirmed. But we have met many people on the verge of dying who would have died for sure,” she said.

The Polish government had a different solution. It imposed a three-kilometre deep security cordon the entire length of its border with Belarus in a bid to curb the tide of illegal immigration.

All non-residents, including reporters, are banned, creating a media blackout that helps hide the scale of the crisis.

For locals, “the zone" has meant economic dislocation, the separation of friends and families, and the near criminalisation of the basic urge to help other humans in desperate need.

“The villages around there are living mainly from tourists. And the autumn is usually the time for tourists. It is mating time for deer, the colours are very nice, and it is easier to see the bison and wolves,” said Adam Wajrak, a prominent naturalist who lives and works in the forest.

“But the whole of Bialowieiza county is now divided by the military zone almost in half. No one will come to my village if they cannot go to the national park or visit Bialowiezka itself, which is seven kilometres away but inside the zone.” The tourists have vanished.

Mr Wajrak is also troubled by the impact of the crisis on forests’ famed wildlife.

A proposed new border fence along the Polish frontier would slice straight through the forest, cutting through fragile wildlife populations that currently use the unpopulated no-mans land along the frontier as a place of refuge.

“The razor wire is especially dangerous with the Lynx. We have a very small genetically fragile population close to extinction. And if they go ahead with this, then in ten years we will not have any,” he said.

It also means rescuers find themselves acting more like insurgents, operating at night and trying to evade police patrols.

On one recent occasion, a pair of local men found a migrant near death. When an ambulance refused a call out to their remote location, they fashioned their own stretcher out of sticks and coats and carried the man out themselves - dodging police patrols as they went.

It is an uneasy time in Bialowieza forest.

Troops are massing in the forest and all along the border, the roads are busy with military vehicles, and checkpoints have begun to pop up further and further away from the zone itself.

After sunset on Wednesday night, another one appeared on the edge of Hajnuk, with officers checking the boot of every vehicle entering or leaving.

"People are afraid of war," said Mrs Wappa. "They have an idea that the EU doesn't care about us and they know Lukashenko is the leader of a state more radical than any other. They are afraid any small provocation cuod start a conflict. And yes. I am a little afraid too."