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BERLIN – A young Kurdish fugitive, Avin Irfan Zahir, died last Friday in the Belarus-Poland border area which, like so many would-be exiles and migrants, tried in vain to cross to escape repression at home and seek asylum. The septicemia she had contracted from the fetus she was carrying killed her. On 11 November a team of members of Fundacja Dialog, a humanitarian NGO, hearing her cries of pain among the fences in the border forest, rescued her and handed her over to the doctors who had performed an emergency cesarean.
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