Cancer is festering in Europe. Alexander Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus, has stolen a presidential election, thrown hundreds of people in prison for demonstrating against him, ordered a civilian airliner seized to capture a dissident, and now is using helpless and poor migrants as a weapon against his neighbors Poland and Lithuania.
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Polish border guards stand next to migrants believed to be from Afghanistan sit on the ground in the small village of Usnarz Gorny near Bialystok, northeastern Poland, located close to the border with Belarus, on Aug. 20, 2021.