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Dr. Arsalan Azzaddin, a doctor originally from the Kurdistan region of Iraq, speaks to the Associated Press in Bielsk Podlaski, on Monday Nov. 22, 2021. Azzaddin has been treating Iraqi and Syrian migrants who have entered Poland from Belarus and gotten trapped in a dank forest, and often arrive with hypothermia, pneumonia, broken bones and severe dehydration. Hoping to stop what has grow into a very deadly migration route now being shut off, he asked a Kurdish TV station to let him go on the news to warn people back in his homeland not to attempt the illegal route into the European Union through Belarus and Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)