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Monday, 13 September 2004
EIGHTY-EIGHT CHECHENS ALLOWED TO ENTER POLAND
By empty (9/13/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Eighty-eight Russian refugees from Chechnya, who were earlier denied entry into Poland, managed to cross the Belarussian-Polish border on Monday, sources in the Brest passenger station\'s border control department (Belarus) told Interfax. All of them were given the status of refugees and sent to Polish centers for displaced persons, they said. Chief of the station\'s border control department, Sergei Dral, told Interfax that 125 refugees from Chechnya attempted to enter Poland on Saturday, but only 24 of them were cleared into that country.
Eighty-eight Russian refugees from Chechnya, who were earlier denied entry into Poland, managed to cross the Belarussian-Polish border on Monday, sources in the Brest passenger station\'s border control department (Belarus) told Interfax. All of them were given the status of refugees and sent to Polish centers for displaced persons, they said. Chief of the station\'s border control department, Sergei Dral, told Interfax that 125 refugees from Chechnya attempted to enter Poland on Saturday, but only 24 of them were cleared into that country. The other 101 Chechens had to return to Brest. On Sunday and Monday the refugees resumed their attempts to reach Poland, Dral said. (Interfax-West)