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fstop123/iStock(BIALYSTOK, Poland) In a dark, cold Polish wood, Ahmad Al Hasan's coffin was lowered into a freshly dug grave. It was early evening but already pitch black in the cemetery outside the village of Bohoniki, a few miles from Poland's eastern border. The 19-year-old Syrian's final resting place among the birch trees was thousands of miles from his homeland. His family wasn't present, instead watching from a mobile phone held up by a local man. Those attending were a crowd of international media and two local women, who wept. Al Hasan drowned this month as he tried to cross from Belarus into Poland, one of the thousands of people, mostly from the Middle East, caught up in the migration crisis orchestrated by Belarus' authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, who's accused of funneling migrants to European neighbors in an effort to retaliate against the European Union for supporting Belarus' pro-democracy movement. Since early autumn, the

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