cross-posted from: https://szmer.info/post/11274

30.08.2021 Ali, 6y.o. Afghan died of food poisoning after eating a soup made of mashrooms picked at the Migrants Detention Centre, that his family was locked in. Family was hungry, they were getting two meals a day, sometimes separated by 20 hours periods.

First

17.09.2021 Belorussian services informed about 1 death

2 - 5th

19.09.2021 4 people

6th

24.09.2021 a man from Iraq died half a kilometer from the border, next to Nowy Dwór.

7th

24/25.09.2021 16y.o. from Iraq, previously it was known that he was vomiting with blood.

Others?

13.10.2021 Migrants met by activists inform that in the no-go zone in the forest they saw dead bodies

Anna, from Grupa Granica:

We got information from the migrants, that they saw a group of dead people and their bodies are somewhere in the forest in the prohibited zone. We cannot anyhow verify this information, but we have heard it from different sources. Not one person, but quite a few have confirmed to have seen dead bodies in the forest.

8th

14.10.2021 24y.o. man from Syria

9th

20.10.2021 19y.o. man from Syria, his body was found floating in Bug river, close to Woroblin village.

10th

22.10.2021 In the no-go zone in Kuścińce a dead man was found.

11-12th

29.11.2021 Two people

13th…

2.11.2021 (date of information, not death) 25y.o Kurd from Iraq, he had diabetis

14th…

10.11.2021 14y.o Kurd died of hypothermia

15th…

12.11.2021 20y.o. man from Syria

16th…

13/17.11.2021 Issa Jerjos, 24 y.o. man from Syria. His decomposing body was found near Klimówka, 5km south from Kuźnica.

He was born 1 July 1997 in the city of Hama in Syria.

17th…

18.11.2021 - 1 year old baby, from Syria.

This is all the information. The Border Guards and Prosecutor’s office do not give any information about those people, they openly admit they will not share any info. Obviously, an anonymous death awakens less feelings than a human history behind it.

Original photo of the border: Artur Reszko / PAP
Photo of Ahmed: tvn24

Photo edition and text : Ada Łowicz (Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook)

updated 18/11