November 2019. Bosnian officials have begun closing a makeshift tent camp in the country’s northwest, moving hundreds of migrants who were stranded in snow and freezing weather to a new reception centre under construction in a former military barracks near Sarajevo.
International aid organisations repeatedly warned that the ramshackle Vucjak camp, close to Bosnia’s border with Croatia, is unfit for people to live in because it is located on a former landfill and close to a minefield from the 1992-95 war. Around 600 people were living there without running water or proper heating. The closure comes after a European Council of Rights official visited Vucjak and warned that deaths would be imminent if the camp was not shuttered immediately. “If we don’t close the camp today, tomorrow people will start dying here,” Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic told reporters while visiting the camp blanketed in snow. At a press conference in Sarajevo on Friday, she stressed the “shameful” and “inhumane” conditions. Muhamed Tarik, an Afghan who lives at Vucjak, said: “I will go to Sarajevo. The weather is not good now, and there are a lot of problems. The ground is wet, tents are full of water, the food is not good. “The camps in Sarajevo are better. I will try to cross the border when the weather gets better. I want to go to France.”
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