[Via Transbalkanska Solidarnost]
We would like to draw your attention that the new tent camp has been opened in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the North-East of Country, Una-Sana Canton, 22 km from Bihac.
After EU insisted, at the end of 2019, on closing Jungle camp Vucjak due to inhumane conditions, this time around it was EU that sponsored the opening of the camp that people who are forced to live in the camp refer to it as Jungle Camp (same as Vucjak). The camp is run by the IOM and DRC. Both claim that it is used as an emergency shelter during Covid-19 pandemic, while the local authorities consider it as a camp where most of the people will be sent to.
From the reports collected by the volunteers, people are collected from the streets of Bihac and forcefully taken to the camp. The camp is 22 km from Bihac, without any infrastructure, in the inhabited part of Una-Sana Canton. People brought to the camp against their will keep running away as conditions are appalling. The only difference, they say, is that there are the Internet and three meals per day (which are of low nutrition quality). Again no sewerage or running water.
The information we receive is that when people leave the camp they are intercepted by BiH police. Using the same methods as the Croatian border police, BiH police sizes whatever little people have, and sometimes they burn their staff in the front of them, the same methods used by the Croatian border police.
So to sum up, in Bosnia again (just a few months after the closure of Vucjak) we have tent camp and humanitarian catastrophe with increased police repression, this time directly sponsored by EU.
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