Vucjak is hell. Many people say that and they say it for a long time: the representative of the European Union, for example, the emissaries of the United Nations and also the staff of various aid organizations.

In the refugee camp Vucjak, built on a former garbage dump near the Bosnian town of Bihac, there is no running water and no electricity. Around 800 refugees, young men, mostly from Pakistan, Afghanistan or Syria, are housed in unheated tents. Diseases spread, it’s rampant scabies. Now, finally, the much-criticized camp Vucjak is to be closed, but the Emergency could be due to this step even more.

The onset of winter, a humanitarian catastrophe in Bosnia. An estimated 7000 refugees are stranded in the Balkan country, and you’re sitting there between the various fronts. Overburdened communities feel the government left in the lurch. Serbs and Muslim Bosniaks to push each other of responsibility. Croatia is trying to foreclose. And the help of the EU for what clumps it’s because on its outer boundary, is clearly. Around 34 million euros were provided for 2018 for the aid to refugees in Bosnia.

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Actually, it is not likely to give this Situation at all. The so-called Balkan route for refugees is finally, since the year 2016 as closed. However, all fences, and controls, in Spite of the refugees are still on the road in the hope of a better life in the West.

your journey takes you from Turkey to Greece and from there via the Balkan States to Bosnia. There, the UN refugee Agency, UNHCR, 2018 were recorded for a total of 24’000 refugees, of 2019 so far, 26’000. Now, if around 7000 Stranded in Bosnia the speech, seems to suggest that the so the fact that the boundaries are more permeable.

“The game” to call the migrants in their Attempts to overcome the border controls. But it is a game with brutal rules.

creates But to each it and has the money to pay the smugglers. The focal point in Bosnia, the 60’000 inhabitants, is the town of Bihac. It is located close to the Croatian border, the refugees want to continue to Slovenia, Austria and Germany, or to Italy.

“The game”, the game, call the migrants in their Attempts to overcome the border controls. However, in this game, Mr’s brutal rules. Croatia wants to be accepted in the Schengen space and, therefore, as a defender of the EU’s external border would like to profile, is always accused of being the refugees with the utmost brutality to Bosnia to push back.

Bihac has become to the cul-de-SAC for many migrants, and the shooting camps were soon overcrowded. Many camped, therefore, in the middle of the city, it came to a dispute, the population felt harassed and besieged. Therefore, the city government opened last summer on their own, the camp Vucjak and the young male refugees brought there – as far away from the city centre, even closer to the Croatian border.

Other bearings are crowded

The States of languages from the start, the international Standards set in mockery, but for the city of Bihac, this was kind of a self-defense measure. Now, however, the Bosnian Minister of the interior Dragan Mektic has announced that Vucjak is to be closed in the next few days. The refugees are to be distributed to other bearings. But they are all crowded. Representatives of the UN in Sarajevo had warned in the summer, unsuccessfully, to create new facilities.

The migrants from Vucjak will remain closed, a little different to camping than in the case of freezing temperatures somewhere wild and try from there, again crossing the border. A message came recently from Slovenia. A young Syrians had been beaten up there and froze to death in the forest.

Created: 13.11.2019, at 20:25