The Institute for War and Peace Reporting examines the dire situation of refugees stranded on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border. The institute said that most of these people are Iraqi Kurdish youth who have not been able to find a good job in the Kurdistan region after higher education, which is why they have decided to go to Europe.

According to the report, 4,000 migrants from Belarus have crossed the Lithuanian border in the past few months, but they have either been detained or stranded on the two countries' borders. The Institute for War and Peace Reporting says most of these people are from the Kurdish region in the north of Iraq who have entered Belarus from Baghdad and intend to go to Western Europe via Lithuania.

EU officials have blamed the Belarussian government for the crisis, and said that Belarus intends to use it as a political card by pushing migrants into the EU's borders. The EU has imposed sanctions on Belarus for detaining the government's oppositions.

Some Iraqi Kurdish immigrants have stated that they intend to move to Europe to find work and life after higher education and have expressed concern about wandering in Belarusian and Lithuanian borders and the European Union's lack of attention to the issue.

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