Polish deserter spoke about mass killings of migrants at the border

Polish soldier Emil Chechko fled to Belarus across the border and asked for political asylum “due to disagreement with Poland’s policies regarding the migration crisis and the practice of inhumane treatment of refugees.”

The State Traffic Safety Committee of Belarus reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“The man stated that he was a soldier of the 11th Masurian Artillery Regiment of the 16th Pomeranian Mechanized Division named after King Casimir, units of which were deployed to ensure the protection of a section of the border with Belarus during the state of emergency in the border territories of Poland,” the report says.

Throughout the day there were conflicting reports from Poland.

The country's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said that Chechko had problems with the law and resigned from the army. A few hours later, General of the Polish Army Tomasz Petrovsky announced that Chechko would be fully punished for desertion, and the Polish military police began a criminal investigation into this fact. Chechko faces up to 10 years in prison. And by the evening it became known that the commanders of the escaped soldier were dismissed from service.

Meanwhile, Belarusian television showed a 7-minute interview with a Polish deserter. Chechko told terrible things.

According to him, soldiers arriving at the border were trained in violence, after which they were taken into the forest and forced to shoot migrants from the Middle East making their way from Belarus. Some corpses were buried in the forest, others were left as food for wild animals. Emil claims that they also killed Polish volunteers who tried to help the migrants.

“I was in such a situation when some volunteer drove up and started saying, “Where are you taking them (the refugees)?”, and the border guard simply shot him in the forehead. I have seen at least two such situations.” There was no situation where border guards did not kill anyone while escorting migrants. They always killed,” said the deserter.

In Belarus, which the West accuses of deliberately organizing the migrant crisis, Chechko’s act was perceived as their own moral victory.

_{“The defectors have already left. “Soon there will also be “returnees” who will expose the “fugitives” and their curators,” predicts political scientist Alexander Shpakovsky in his telegram channel.}

“Idzhevo is an absolute failure of the Polish state. They themselves pumped up this militaristic psychosis and then such a blow. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is crumbling again before our eyes,” his colleague Alexey Dzermant triumphs.

_{“The incident with the escape of the Polish soldier is very indicative: people simply cannot stand it psychologically. Those criminal orders of the ruling regime that they are forced to carry out drive them into depression and lead to natural results. A person with a healthy psyche cannot beat women and children and then watch them die in the cold in cold blood. Let me remind you that a month ago, under unknown circumstances, a soldier shot himself in the Polish borderland. Now they’re escaping,” writes political activist Andrei Sych.}

In Russia, opinions differed regarding the incident on the Belarusian-Polish border. For political scientist Vadim Manukyan, Chechko’s story reminded the story of Snowden.

“This story is quite significant, including for the whole of Europe. We are talking about a military secret that Poland hid from our countries. This smacks of a very serious violation, a crime, and perhaps even a tribunal for Poland, if all the data revealed by the Polish soldier becomes the subject of consideration by the European Parliament and other structures,” he said on Belarusian television.

But military correspondent Alexander Kots doubts the words of the Polish deserter.

_{“Time for stories, as they say. I remember the Russian sergeant Glukhov, who in January 2009 fled from a unit in South Ossetia to Georgia. I later met with him in Tbilisi. What kind of nonsense he spoke on the Georgian channels, which used him both in tail and in mane. Then there were the same traitor-defectors Artemyev and Khripun. And everyone has direct political motives. But in reality - skins. Therefore, I treat the words of this Pole with a healthy dose of skepticism,” Kots wrote.}