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En février 2019...
Violence et désespoir s’emparent des migrants oubliés en Bosnie-Herzégovine

Vendredi soir, de très violents affrontements ont éclaté dans le camp de réfugiés de #Bira, à #Bihać, au nord-ouest de la Bosnie-Herzégovine. Entre les squats de Sarajevo et les camps surpeuplés, des milliers de réfugiés sont toujours bloqués dans ce pays. Sans grand espoir de pouvoir passer dans l’Union européenne.

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▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/040219/violence-et-desespoir-s-emparent-des-migrants-oublies-en-bosnie-herzegovin

#Bihać : Dove i corpi non si sfiorano

Pubblichiamo il primo di due articoli dal confine tra Bosnia e Croazia, dove memorie di guerre e migrazioni del passato e del presente si incrociano. Il secondo articolo sarà di Gabriele Proglio, compagno di viaggio di Benedetta.

Sono le 8 di mattina, e dopo una lunga giornata di viaggio e poche ore di sonno, Bihać ci sorprende nel tepore di una giornata inaspettatamente calda e soleggiata. La città bosniaca si circonda di montagne e colline, che ne tracciano fiere ed imponenti il confine che la separa dalla Croazia. Negli anni 90, queste cime sono state luogo di un assedio da parte dell’esercito serbo, fungendo da vera e propria prigione naturale. Oggi, invece, rappresentano, per migliaia di migranti in fuga da guerre, persecuzioni e povertà, l’unica speranza di giungere in Unione Europea.

Il fascino delle terre di confine sta proprio nel loro essere allo stesso tempo luoghi di limite e superamento, di prigionia e di libertà, di antagonismo e di incontro. Inevitabilmente, questa eterna contraddizione li rende condanna e benedizione per i popoli che li abitano, e per quelli che vi passano.

Io e Gabriele siamo arrivati fin qui con lo scopo di esplorare la sovrapposizione storica delle memorie di un popolo che ha visto la guerra, e che ora si ritrova ad essere luogo di passaggio di persone che dalla guerra stanno ancora scappando. Lo stimolo intellettuale di smascherare il confine, una conoscenza superficiale della storia del paese, ed un interesse accademico per la questione della crisi migratoria, sono i bagagli che ho con me. Sono ancora ignara dei fantasmi di questo posto, e degli scheletri che si porta dentro. In poco tempo il confine mi entrerà nella pelle, lo sentirò scorrere e spostarsi alterando le sicurezze che mi ero costruita attraverso lo studio minuzioso ma distaccato di questa realtà. Ma per ora, Bihać deve ancora svegliarsi e con lei, mi sveglierò anche io.

Ad un primo sguardo, la città mi appare come un non luogo, dove l’apatia generale ha lentamente rimosso le ferite di una guerra fin troppo recente. Ma i resti sono evidenti. Monumenti ai caduti, cimiteri e colpi di mortaio che appaiono come cicatrici sui palazzi della città. Nella sua calma opprimente, Bihać ricorda molto la Seahaven di Truman Show. Una cittadina tranquilla dove non succede niente. Un posto come un altro dove mettere su famiglia e vivere una vita semplice. Come Seahaven, questa mattina Bihać si apre ai miei occhi come un palcoscenico pronto a mettere in scena uno spettacolo dell’inganno, che va avanti giorno dopo giorno da decenni, nel tentativo di legittimare la finzione di una serenità tanto desiderata quanto superficiale.

Le strade sono pulite e silenziose e le comparse del grande spettacolo dell’inganno devono ancora apparire. Tutto è fermo. Tra poco si sparpaglieranno nei caffè del centro impersonando perfettamente il loro ruolo di cittadini annoiati e disillusi. Lo sguardo stanco dei cani randagi che si assopiscono all’ombra di alberi spogli, l’immagine stereotipata di ragazzi e anziani seduti ad un bar per riempire la giornata. Eccola Bihać nella sua stasi permanente e volontaria, nella sua apparente tranquillità che da due decenni tenta invano di smacchiarle l’anima dalle cicatrici di una guerra di cui non si parla e non si vuole parlare.

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È mezzogiorno. Improvvisamente noto che l’equilibrio che si è tanto faticato a costruire durante la mattinata si rompe. Appaiono degli estranei che spezzano l’atmosfera. Sono nuove comparse, che stonano con la scenografia e non conoscono il copione. La maggior parte sono uomini sui trenta, alcuni portano con loro zaini e sacchi a pelo. Sono le persone migranti giunte dopo mesi di viaggio per la rotta balcanica, arrivate fin qui per oltrepassare il confine e raggiungere la Croazia, l’Unione Europea. Alcuni vivono nei campi di Borici, Bira e Cedra. Ma da qualche settimana i campi sono pieni, e chi non può permettersi di pagare altissime somme di denaro per un affitto in città in nero, dorme per strada.

Da circa un anno, a Bihać non si parla d’altro. Dall’estate scorsa, quando i flussi migratori si sono intensificati, i cittadini si sono trovati a dover gestire una situazione d’emergenza umanitaria, dove le uniche presenze di supporto sono la Croce Rossa, lo #IOM e poche ONG internazionali, come #IPSIA. Intanto gli abitanti della città cominciano ad innervosirsi.

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Ci hanno abbandonato’ mi dice Amir, riferendosi al governo centrale di Sarajevo, ‘non gli è mai importato di noi, nemmeno durante la guerra’. Amir vive a Bihać da tutta la vita, e come ogni bosniaco della sua generazione, ha visto la guerra e se la porta dentro e addosso, nella sua gestualità al limite del compulsivo e nell’azzurro glaciale del suo sguardo, che non si azzarda mai ad incrociare il mio, ma si focalizza sempre su zone limitrofe. ‘Non odio, ma sono arrabbiato’ mi confessa Amir mentre avvicina ripetutamente alle labbra la tazzina ormai vuota di caffè, come per rimarcare con quella pausa la scelta coraggiosa ed insolita di abbandonarsi al ricordo della guerra. Amir non se lo permette mai. ‘Non parliamo della guerra, non sono bei ricordi. Cerco di non stare solo. Quando sono solo, suono il piano. Questo è un altro modo per scappare. Lo faccio solo per me’. Amir ha combattuto sul fronte a Bihac e ‘probabilmente’, come tiene a sottolineare, ha ucciso qualcuno.

Ma non lo vuole sapere, non ci vuole pensare. Un’altra pausa, un sospiro e di nuovo un finto sorso ad una tazzina ormai vuota da venti minuti. Mi trovo di fronte a questo signore di cinquant’anni a cui la guerra ne ha aggiunti almeno quindici in volto. Lo ascolto ed improvvisamente mi ritrovo a comprenderne la violenza, subita ed esercitata. D’un tratto, il confine tra bene e male che ho tracciato nella mia coscienza va a sgretolarsi nel dramma di un popolo che non comprende la ragione del proprio trauma, ma ne subisce ogni conseguenza.

Nella costante rimozione di un passato scomodo e violento, la materializzazione della crisi migratoria risveglia la rabbia ed il senso di abbandono dei cittadini di Bihać. ‘Noi siamo un popolo aperto e tollerante, sappiamo cosa vuol dire dover scappare dalle proprie case. Ma io non so chi sono queste persone, e non mi sento al sicuro. Ho paura per mia figlia’ mi confessa Harun. ‘Queste persone non vogliono rimanere qui. Fosse per me, le condurrei io al confine. Questa situazione non va bene nemmeno per loro e sono le istituzioni che dovrebbero darci supporto.’

‘Il pisciatoio d’Europa’, cosi lo definisce Alessandra, italiana migrata a Bihać negli anni 90. Anche lei arrivata al limite della sopportazione nei confronti del fenomeno che ha sconvolto la realtà quotidiana di questa città. Dalle prime interviste agli abitanti di Bihać, mi appare chiara una cosa. Nessuno si azzarda a dire che il migrante è un problema in quanto tale. Tutti parlano di sicurezza, di identità. Il problema non è che so chi sei e per questo ti odio, il problema è che non so chi sei, e per questo ho paura. Ancora una volta, ‘non odio, ma sono arrabbiato’.

Incontro gli abitanti di Bihać nei patii dell’Hotel Opal e Paviljon che si affacciano sulle due rive opposte del fiume Una. In mezzo, l’isolotto di verde che spezza il ceruleo del corso d’acqua si copre di ragazzi con zaini e sacchi a peli. Alcuni sono soli, altri in gruppo. Tutti hanno solo un obiettivo al momento: arrivare al confine. Invadono il paesaggio ma non le coscienze. Sono osservati costantemente, ma non vengono mai guardati. Tra di loro c’è Abdul, arrivato dall’Iraq dopo 9 mesi di viaggio attraverso la Turchia, la Grecia l’Albania e la Serbia. Domani tenterà di nuovo il game, nonostante non cammini ancora bene, dopo gli ultimi pestaggi della polizia croata. Il game, così lo chiamano, è il tentativo di valicare il confine, cercando di sfuggire alle violente deportazioni della polizia croata. Cosi nel grande spettacolo dell’inganno, la trama si infittisce di adrenalina e suspense. Migranti e forze dell’ordine croate si rincorrono e si combattono in un moderno guardia e ladri che avviene lassù, sulle montagne che separano il confine bosniaco da quello croato, lontano dagli occhi del mondo. Abdul mi dice che questo è il suo ottavo tentativo, ma che ha deciso che in caso venga respinto ancora, si sposterà a Velika Kladuša, altra città di confine, a pochi chilometri da Bihać. Abdul non mi parla di casa, non mi parla del futuro. Nei suoi occhi vedo solo il game. Eppure Abdul ha visto morire suo padre, ed è scappato lasciando una madre ed una sorella. Come Amir, ha la guerra negli occhi. Come Amir, non odia ma è arrabbiato. È arrabbiato con lo IOM che non lo ha fatto entrare nel campo di Bira. E’ arrabbiato con l’uomo della polizia croata che lo ha picchiato e gli ha rubato il cellulare. Ma Amir non odia, non ne vede il motivo. Vuole solo oltrepassare il confine, vuole solo una possibilità.

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In questa danza imbarazzata e goffa tra due storie di vite spezzate, presenti e passati di guerre e miseria, i corpi non si sfiorano. Accarezzano il lento scorrere del tempo tra la pesante presenza dei monumenti di guerra e lo sforzo collettivo di ignorali. Proprio come quei monumenti, i migranti sono altamente visibili, e sistematicamente ignorati. Proprio come quei monumenti, i cittadini portano addosso i marchi indelebili di una memoria sanguinolenta, che scorre attraverso le loro menti e le loro fisicità, ma viene anch’essa rimossa dalla coscienza.A Bihac oggi, coesistono due tragedie: quella di un passato macchiato di sangue e quella di un futuro incerto ed opprimente. Due linee parallele che non si toccano mai nella temporalità e nella geografia complesse di questo eterno enigma che è la Bosnia. Eppure, in qualche modo, queste due linee hanno entrambe attraversato i confini della mia soggettività, prima scontrandosi violentemente in uno scarabocchio emotivo che non riesce a dare senso a quello che prova e poi ridefinendo il perimetro curvo e fluido della mia certezza. Il confine si è spostato. Non ci sono più buoni o cattivi.

A Bihać, per quanto lo si tenti di negare, si è tutti parte della stessa rabbia. E come in una tragedia greca, io, da spettatrice di questo spettacolo dell’inganno, ho vissuto la catarsi nel riscoprire che queste comparse stonate, nel loro essere fuori luogo, ignorate e non volute, sono in realtà parte integrante della trama. Lo sbaglio sta nel cercare il torto dove non c’è ragione, e nel cercare la ragione dove non c’è il torto. Quando si smette di farlo, Bihać non fa altro che rivelare le pieghe drammatiche della tragedia dell’essere umano nella sua costante ed insensata ricerca di un nemico a cui dare la colpa della propria sofferenza.

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#Croix-Rouge #OIM #frontières #Bosnie #Croatie #Balkans #route_des_Balkans

The City Council of Bihać unanimously made a decision (▻https://www.nezavisne.com/novosti/gradovi/Vucijak-nova-lokacija-za-izmjestanje-migranata/537203) to open a new accommodation facility for refugees - in #Vučijak, a suburb near #Plješevica, near the border with Croatia. There they found an object that meets the necessary conditions for refugee accommodation, and authorities have announced that this move will move refugees from the temporary center of Bira or the center of Bihać to the EU border. Although the new facility could provide better reception conditions for refugees in Bosnia, this move is an indication of how countries in the region share an ignorant integration policy.

Reçu via la mailing-list Inicijativa dobrodosli, le 15.05.2019

New migrant reception center to be built in Bosnia

Bosnian authorities have announced that a new migrant reception center will be built near Bihac. This center will replace two temporary reception centers.

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Operating Unit for Migrants has decided to build a migrant and refugee center near Bihac, in the country’s northwest. The center will be built in Vucjak, eight kilometers from the Bihac city center, according to media sources.

The new structure will take the place of two temporary reception centers: #Bira in Bihac and #Miral in #Velika_Kladusa, both near the Croatia border. In 2018, 25,000 migrants entered Bosnia illegally from Serbia and Montenegro. Since the start of this year, police have registered 8,930 arrivals.

Bosnia is a transit country for many migrants who are trying to make it to Western Europe from Turkey or Greece. Bosnia is not a member of the European Union. But its neighbor Croatia is.

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Volunteers banned from providing aid

Meanwhile, Bosnian authorities have banned the international aid group “#Aid_Brigade” from providing food to migrants and refugees at the main train station in Bosnia’s capital Sarajevo, according to the website Klix.ba.

The volunteers reportedly also had to close the place where they were providing medical assistance to migrants. Since March 2018, Aid Brigade volunteers have prepared and distributed 120,000 meals to migrants and 600 jackets and sleeping bags.

The volunteers are accused of violating public order and aiding migrants and refugees in violation of the law, as well as volunteering with a tourist visa.

▻https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/17270/new-migrant-reception-center-to-be-built-in-bosnia
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Bosnie-Herzégovine : à Bihać, on transfère les réfugiés sur une ancienne #décharge

16 juin -14h30 : Depuis samedi matin, quelque 500 migrants ont été déplacés de Bihać vers une ancienne décharge située sur localité de #Vučjak, tout près de la frontière croate. Les migrants s’opposent à ce transfert et en appellent à la communauté internationale. Des heurts ont éclaté lors des premières opérations de transfert, et quatre policiers ont été blessés selon les sources officielles.

Des habitants de Bihać annoncent une grande manifestation ce dimanche pour dénoncer la dégradation de la situation en ville, due, selon eux, à la présence des migrants. Ils accusent les autorités locales, cantonales, fédérales et centrales de ne prendre aucune mesure.

►https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/fil-info-refugies

#Vucjak

A particularly worrying situation in the northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Una-Sana Canton, is escalating. After the fire in the Miral camp and numerous conflicts between the refugees and the police, the situation seems to be unsustainable. Poor hygienic and living conditions led the refugees to despair. After the escalation of various forms of violence, local authorities decided to move all refugees outside the camps to an isolated area in Vučjak, at the same place where a waste landfill was once housed. The authorities de facto closed the camps, refusing refugees to enter or leave the building. Ironically, the UN and IOM, who have run camps in BiH, oppose this solution (▻http://ba.one.un.org/content/unct/bosnia_and_herzegovina/en/home/presscenter/un-country-team-in-bih--joint-statement-on-relocation-of-migrant.html. By using force, more than 600 people were transferred to that area, including searches and incursions into several private homes where nearly 300 people were accommodated. "Local police and local Red Cross teams are only present because international organizations do not support the idea and accommodation in Vučjak in the current circumstances. The Red Cross is allegedly only allowed to provide first aid, so there is no medical care for the people who are staying there. Also, food that is distributed is very basic and is not enough to feed people, "AYS reported.

Reçu via la mailing-list Inicijativa dobrodosli, le 24.06.2019

The jungle camp #Vučjak in BIH exists in the last two weeks. There is no presence of medical staff in the camp which makes unacceptable hygienic and sanitary conditions even worse - especially due to reported skin infections among the people who are there. The only organization currently active in the camp is the Red Cross that provides food. The EU responded with additional approval of 14.8 million Euros (►http://europa.ba/?p=64423 - of which 13 million are intended to support border management (June 21, signed by IOM), and 1.8 million for humanitarian aid. Thus, the EU has so far financially supported BiH with 24 million euros around the refugee situation. It is extremely worrying that the EU allocates 90% of its intended funds to migration management and a very small part to humanitarian support for people living in very poor conditions. This is a direct indication that the Commission is more concerned with border conservation than human life.

Reçu via la mailing-list Inicijativa dobrodosli, le 03.07.2019

EU provides €14.8 million to assist refugees and migrants in BiH

The European Union announced today €14.8 million to address the needs of migrants and refugees who remain present in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This includes €13 million of support to migration management – for which an implementation agreement was signed on 21 June with the International Organisation for Migration – and €1.8 million for humanitarian aid.

This brings EU overall assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina to cope with the increased migratory flow since 2018 to €24 million (€20.2 million from the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance and €3.8 million of humanitarian aid). This is in addition to €24.6 million assistance the European Union has provided to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the area of asylum, migration and border management since 2007.

Johannes Hahn, EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, said: ‘As stated in the recent Commission Opinion, Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities need to ensure effective coordination, at all levels, of border management and migration management capacity, as well as the functioning of the asylum system. This is necessary for the country to take full advantage of the EU substantial assistance – in the interest of refugees and migrants and of the local communities.’

Christos Stylianides, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, said: ‘The EU is committed to help those most in need and cover the basic needs of refugees and migrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina, complementing national efforts. It is important that the well-being of the refugees and migrants is at the heart of decisions for the location and quality of accommodation centres.’

Building on the results of the previous assistance, this funding will ensure accommodation for around 5,000 refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. It will provide access to health and protection assistance and outreach to people living outside of the reception facilities. Also, some items such as jackets, shoes and sleeping bags will be made available for people in need. The unhindered access of humanitarian partners to those in need is crucial in addressing these humanitarian needs.

The EU funding will also strengthen the capacity of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s authorities in border management, as well as for identification, registration and referral to services for refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants. It will also support assisted voluntary returns.

Background

Since the beginning of the refugee crisis in Western Balkans the European Union has allocated more than €25 million in humanitarian aid to assist refugees and migrants in Serbia, and over €4 million to North Macedonia. EU humanitarian aid helps the most vulnerable refugees and migrants to meet basic needs and preserve their dignity. In addition to humanitarian assistance, the European Union has provided Western Balkans partners with significant financial support amounting to €98.2 million for activities related to migration and refugee crisis. This is done primarily through the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance.

Since 2007, the European Union has been providing assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina worth amounting to € 44.8 million in the area of migration and border management through the Instrument for pre-accession assistance. The country has also benefited from the IPA regional programme ‘Support to Protection-Sensitive Migration Management’ worth up to €14.5 million. The emergency humanitarian assistance provided so far amounts to € 3.8 million.

Over 33,300 refugees and migrants entered Bosnia and Herzegovina since January 2018, according to government estimates. Approximately 8,000 refugees and migrants in need of assistance are currently present in the country, mostly in the Una-Sana Canton. Approximately, 4,500 are accommodated in EU-funded temporary reception centres.

As of Friday 14 June, local authorities proceeded with a forced relocation of 900-1000 refugees and migrants to a new location called Vučijak that has been deemed unsuitable by the European Union and UN. The above-mentioned venue, without the necessary infrastructure in terms of water, sanitation or electricity, surrounded by minefields, creates a clear danger for the life and health of migrants. Furthermore, the land is a former landfill and may still be toxic. The European Union is concerned about the well-being of the people moved there and has, together with its humanitarian partners, requested the authorities to stop forced relocations and provide dignified and secure shelter solutions. The European Union is also concerned about the authorities’ intention to take measures against humanitarian partners.

The € 13 million is based on the Commission Decision C (2019) 3189 on supporting Bosnia and Herzegovina in managing the migration flows for 2019

The €1.8 million announced today is based on the Commission Implementing Decision C(2019) 17 on the financing of humanitarian aid operational priorities from the 2019 general budget of the European Union ECHO/WWD/BUD/2019/01000.

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Rotta balcanica. Caritas: “Situazione a Bihac inaccettabile, Europa intervenga”

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“Mentre in Serbia la situazione è abbastanza buona, in Bosnia le condizioni dei migranti sono del tutto inaccettabili: hanno bisogno di tutto, alcuni si trovano in un centro informale, dove prima c’era una discarica. E’ inaccettabile che, a 4 ore di macchina dall’Italia, ci siano persone costrette a vivere così. Le istituzioni italiane ed europee devono iniziare a seguire in maniera seria la situazione”. A sottolinearlo è Oliviero Forti di Caritas italiana e Caritas Europa, di ritorno da una missione nei Balcani, nelle zone di confine con la Croazia. “Siamo stati prima in alcuni centri in Serbia: uno di questi era un ex ospedale psichiatrico e affaccia in territorio croato - . aggiunge Forti -. Ma devo dire che qui ci sono standard buoni, di qualità e non ci sono tantissime persone. Diversa è la situazione in Bosnia, lo stress psicologico delle persone è altissimo, i migranti provano costantemente a passare la frontiera ma vengono rimandati indietro. La violenza della polizia croata nei loro confronti sta diventando una vera emergenza”. Al confine, infatti, per i migranti (per lo più afgani, pakistani, iracheni e siriani) che provano il “game” (passaggio delle frontiere) a Bihac il trattamento è durissimo: secondo quanto testimoniato dagli stessi migranti gli abusi sono sistematici: vengono picchiati, i vestiti gli vengono tolti, così come i telefonini spesso distrutti. “A questa situazione va data una risposta diversa - aggiunge -. tra due mesi qui ci saranno due metri di neve, il gioco diventa molto rischioso. Inoltre c’è una difficoltà di integrazione evidente, le persone del luogo sono sempre più intolleranti e razziste nei loro confronti”. La Bosnia sta diventando così un buco nero, dove i migranti restano bloccati senza poter andare avanti né tornare indietro. “A breve la Serbia chiuderà l’accordo con Frontex per monitorare i confini - conclude Forti - anche questo rientra nella strategia di esternalizzazione delle frontiere, che ormai non vediamo più solo in mare ma anche via terra”.

▻https://www.redattoresociale.it/article/notiziario/rotta_balcanica_caritas_situazione_a_bihac_inaccettabile_europa_int

Il campo tossico dove l’Europa scorda i migranti

Muri e migrazioni. A #Vucjak, in Bosnia, si sopravvive senza assistenza, tra rifiuti e mine anti-uomo: il campo si trova sopra una vecchia discarica, l’acqua non è potabile e la terra, mai bonificata, è intrisa di veleni. E chi tenta la fuga in Croazia trova la polizia e il suo «gioco»: cibo confiscato e zaini dati alle fiamme

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Nascosto tra le cime boscose del monte Plješevica e circondato da zone ancora minate delle guerre jugoslave, il campo rifugiati di Vucjak, nella Bosnia nord-occidentale, è una prova scioccante della crisi che si è abbattuta contro la porta di servizio dell’Unione europea. Le Nazioni unite hanno recentemente descritto questo campo, a pochi chilometri dal confine spinato croato, come del tutto inadeguato ad accogliere civili.

UNICO CAMPO in cui non sono presenti le grandi organizzazioni non-governative internazionali, è ufficialmente gestito dalla municipalità della cittadina di Bihac. E sotto-affidata, non ufficialmente, ai volontari della Croce Rossa locale di Bihac.

È sorto dopo che le autorità della Bosnia e i governi municipali del Cantone di Una-Sana, hanno deciso che i migranti non potevano più rimanere negli spazi pubblici o negli edifici abbandonati, entro i limiti della città.
Plastica, vetro, vecchi vestiti ormai diventati stracci, copertoni di gomme usate giacciono sul terreno contaminato.

Si tratta di resti tossici del passato. Il campo si trova sul sito di una vecchia discarica, in attività solo fino a qualche anno fa. Le condizioni sono terribilmente preoccupanti. La sopravvivenza è legata all’acqua non potabile, alla terra intrisa di anni di veleni, al solo lavoro dei volontari.

ALMENO UN MIGLIAIO di migranti sono ammassati in questo inferno. Provengono da Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Siria, Pakistan. L’accesso all’acqua è ridotto a dieci ore al giorno, non esiste un approvvigionamento idrico permanente.

Vucjak fa eco all’inumanità del campo profughi di Calais in Francia del nord e all’abietta inazione dei governi europei. La mancanza di infrastrutture di base e servizi igienico-sanitari a Vucjak viola profondamente le norme minime stabilite dai canoni delle Nazioni unite.

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Nel bel mezzo del campo, un’enorme mappa mostra la posizione dei campi minati locali. Ogni giorno, più volte al giorno, camionette della polizia bosniaca riversano su Vucjak migranti che sono fuori dai circuiti dei centri di accoglienza temporanei, quelli dell’Organizzazione internazionale per le Migrazioni.

Come cani randagi, vengono scaricati in mezzo al campo, dopo aver aperto il portellone posteriore del furgone, sigillato da uno sfolgorante lucchetto. È strettamente proibito riprendere queste scene, non ci sono fotografie, video o materiali propagandistici, ma è una pratica che va avanti indisturbatamente.

Nonostante l’ingiustizia umanitaria, non sono le mine antiuomo, le condizioni precarie di salute o la mancanza di servizi igienico-sanitari che i migranti raccontano. Raccontano le violenze «passive» della polizia di confine. Nelle ultime settimane c’è un nuovo gioco che usa la polizia croata: rastrellare e bruciare cibo, vestiti, scarpe, zaini, telefoni dei ragazzi che tentano il game.

Nella programmazione dell’attraversamento del confine croato-bosniaco, si spendono circa 100 marchi (poco più di 50 euro) in generi alimentari, per lo più pane e derivati. Spesso quei 100 marchi rappresentano i risparmi di mesi, così bruciare il cibo diventa un segnale di terribile spietatezza.

Emad è fuggito dalla Siria, con la moglie e il figlioletto di appena due anni. Ha tentato il game ma l’hanno rispedito nel Borici temporary reception center della città di Bihac, derubandolo di tutto. Mentre lo staff medico dell’associazione italiana One Life Onlus visita il figlio, Emad ci porge una busta di plastica con un telefono all’interno. Ci chiede se lo vogliamo comprare, così con quei soldi può provare di nuovo ad attraversare il confine con la Croazia. È straziante. Non ci sono parole.

DAL GENNAIO 2018, quasi 36mila migranti sono entrati in Bosnia, rimanendo intrappolati tra le politiche europee, progettate per ridurre gli attraversamenti irregolari, e la situazione di stallo politico in Bosnia, che di fatto impedisce alle autorità locali di fornire protezione.

Dalla Turchia e dalla Grecia, sono due le principali vie di passaggio per la Bosnia: una attraversa la Macedonia del nord e la Serbia, l’altra attraversa l’Albania e il Montenegro.

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In piedi nel campo di Vucjak, tra una folla di corpi maltrattati e ossa rotte, ci si trova di fronte alle feroci conseguenze della geopolitica europea. Nel cinico sforzo del governo croato di dimostrare di avere le carte in regola per aderire all’area Schengen di libera circolazione, il Paese respinge i migranti senza seguire le adeguate procedure di asilo.

IL VIAGGIO DI GULRAIZ inizia a Kunduz, in Afghanistan. Facciamo fatica a guadagnare la sua fiducia. La solitudine che accompagna i migranti è invalicabile. Sorridono, ma gli occhi sono vuoti. Mese dopo mese camminano senza alcun riposo e senza alcun appoggio. Si viaggia insieme ad amici di circostanza, a meri compagni di percorso.

Per un marco ha ricaricato il suo prezioso e vecchio telefono a Vucjak. Dopo qualche racconto, ci mostra sul telefono la mappa che userà per tentare il game partendo dal monte Plješevica, addentrandosi nel fitto bosco bosniaco, passando per la cittadina bosniaca di Šturlic, fino ad arrivare agli anelati cartelli del granicni prelaz, il valico di frontiera. Un firmamento di punti rossi, di luoghi, di coordinate, di passi compaiono sulla funzione ‘satellite’ di Google Maps.

Ci ferma un biondo poliziotto bosniaco. Camicia chiusa fino all’ultimo bottone, aria spavalda e bieche gambe di piombo. Ci prende i documenti. Cerca di intimorirci segnando i nostri nomi su un taccuino spiegazzato, senza darci alcuna spiegazione.

Il favoreggiamento all’immigrazione clandestina ha un confine sottile. Siamo costretti ad allontanarci. Lo facciamo con l’immagine negli occhi della mappa satellitare di Gulraiz, con le mani segnate da un viaggio inumano di Abdurahman che con ago e filo riparava il suo zaino, con gli occhi sgranati dall’incertezza dei ragazzi che non hanno un badge per il ’5 stelle’ dei centri di accoglienza temporanei.

Lasciamo la Bosnia con l’immagine di Ibrahim, poco più di tre anni, che segue camminando il suo papà, imitandolo con le braccia piegate all’indietro.

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‘Absurdistan’ : Migrants face dangerous winter in Bosnia

Political inaction leaves hundreds living on former dump amid snake-infested minefields

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“This is jungle life,” says Wasim, a Pakistani who is among hundreds of migrants staying in a makeshift camp in northwestern Bosnia, from where they strike out at night in small groups for nearby Croatia and the European Union.

“We are all like animals here just trying to survive. It’s the worst sentence I could say, but unfortunately it’s true.”

The political science graduate from near Lahore speaks eloquently about how a famous son of the city, Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, could transform life for his nation of 208 million and the quarter of its people who live in poverty.

Wasim (34) plans to return when times are better, but now he must hike again through the thickly wooded hills above the camp, try to slip past Croatian border guards who are accused of beating and robbing migrants, and find the hoped-for job somewhere in the EU that was his reason for leaving home last year.

Danger is all around: the squalid Vucjak camp is built on a former rubbish dump that may hold high levels of methane gas – prompting the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to declare it unfit for human habitation – while the hills are infested with snakes and dotted with landmines from Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war.

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There are no toilets for the more than 500 men who live here and washing facilities are rudimentary, increasing the risk of disease; fights are common, particularly after dark when police and local aid workers go home. A man was stabbed to death here last week during a fight between Pakistanis and Syrians.

“No one feels safe,” Wasim explains, as men who have fled conflict and poverty from North Africa to Afghanistan line up in the dust to receive food from the Bosnian Red Cross.

“Might is right here. Everyone pushes each other, everyone is desperate and wants to move on,” he says of this remote corner of Europe where he has been stuck for three months, having failed “four or five times” to enter the EU undetected.

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“Everyone knows where to go. Even if they are illiterate, even if they didn’t go to school at all, they know Croatian and Slovenian and Italian cities by name. Everyone talks about this. Maybe they can’t even tell the time, but they know how to find locations with a mobile phone.”

The so-called Balkan route did not cross Bosnia in 2015, when more than one million refugees and migrants followed it from Turkey towards Germany and other EU states, where their arrival sent immigration to the top of the political agenda.
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Even in 2017, Bosnia registered only 755 migrants but, as the route shifted to bypass tighter border controls elsewhere in the Balkans, that number soared to 25,000 in 2018 – and 20,000 migrants have entered the country so far this year.

They keep coming this way because it works – only about 6,500 of those people are still in Bosnia – but as months of cold, wet and snowy weather approach, up to 2,000 people are living rough at Vucjak and in parks, woods and derelict buildings in the border towns of Bihac and Velika Kladusa.

“We’ve been warning since January of the need to increase the number of official migrant centres or their capacity . . . but there was no political decision to expand accommodation, even though international funding is available,” says Peter Van der Auweraert, the IOM representative in Bosnia.

“Winter is just around the corner and any new location takes time to establish. We now have about 4,200 beds for migrants around the country, but we need about 2,000 more,” he told The Irish Times.

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“Vucjak is a disaster and it would be a bigger disaster if it’s still open in winter . . . If we don’t act now we will have people sleeping outside in Vucjak and other totally unacceptable places and we will be facing a threat to human life.”

Yet Bosnian political leaders at all levels are unwilling to take any steps that rivals could portray as an “invitation” to migrants, or which would acknowledge the fact that they are likely to keep coming to the country for the foreseeable future.

The local authorities in Bihac transported people to Vucjak despite objections from international aid groups, moving them from the city’s streets and parks to the edge of the forest – “the jungle” to migrants – which leads to Croatia.

National politics is meanwhile paralysed, not for the first time under Bosnia’s fiendishly complex post-war system, as parties representing its Bosniak Muslim, Serb and Croat communities have yet to form a government nearly a year after elections.

“This is ‘Absurdistan’,” declares Ale Siljdedic, police spokesman for Una-Sana canton, in his office in Bihac.

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“The problem is that no one cares in this country. They don’t care for local people, never mind the migrants. What is 5,000 migrants for a whole country if everyone shares them around? It’s nothing. But for a city of 50,000 like Bihac it’s too much.”
Mass brawls

The Pakistani stabbed at Vucjak last week was the second man to die in fights between migrants in Bihac. There have been a couple of mass brawls, but most of the cases he sees relate to minor thefts, particularly of phones and clothes, and break-ins at empty houses near the border where migrants sleep and then move on.

“If you don’t have something to eat and you’re hungry you will go inside somewhere and get it. If it’s freezing cold and you could be dead the next morning then you’ll go into a house or abandoned building to sleep,” Mr Siljdedic says.

“Maybe we’ll find you dead with two friends as happened last year, when they made a fire and it spread everywhere and they were killed. We’ve had 20 dead migrants in the last two years: two murdered, six drowned, three burned, some car accidents and a train hit one guy. This is the life we have here – people are coming and going and some die.

“Camp Vucjak is not good and it will be much worse in winter. When the rain and snow come – and it can be minus 20 with two metres of snow up there – what will happen to those guys? They’ll come to Bihac and come into contact with locals and make some shit. And then we’ll have to deal with them.”

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Many migrants see the next few weeks as their last chance to reach the EU this year, creating a likely increase in movement towards Croatia, where officials deny claims that border guards beat and rob people that they push back into Bosnia.

“With winter coming [migrants] are increasingly on edge and they feel like it’s ‘now or never’ to get across the border. At the same, the border guards in Croatia seem to be pushing people back more aggressively than before,” says Nihal Osman, deputy field co-ordinator in Bosnia and Serbia for Médecins Sans Frontières.

“There’s been a noticeable increase of alleged push-back injuries in the last week or so, including people with broken bones and dog bites.”

Sitting in a wheelchair in an IOM-run camp near Bihac, Amir Ali Mohammad Labaf accuses Croatian border guards of dumping him in the forest near the frontier just days after he suffered back injuries when he fell down a roadside embankment.

Labaf says he was persecuted in Iran as an activist from the Gonabadi dervish order, a major Sufi sect that is denounced by country’s Shia theocracy; news reports from 2008 say a court in Qom sentenced a member of the sect with the same name to five years in jail, 74 lashes and internal exile for “spreading lies”.

“I was in hospital for a day in Croatia and asked for asylum. They said no and deported me to the jungle,” says Labaf (40), referring to the forest that spans the border. “I want to go to France, but I can only walk a little and with great pain.”

At Vucjak, meanwhile, Wasim is ready for another round of what migrants call “the game”.

“I don’t have money to pay smugglers so I will try by myself to cross the border. I have some knowledge of the stars so I can travel by night,” he says. “You just have to try and try and try. And when you succeed, then you know it was the right time.”

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Water cut to crowded migrant camp as Bosnian authorities feud, seek to downsize its population

Local authorities in the Bosnian town of Bihac on Monday cut off a nearby migrant camp’s water supply, to pressure the government into reducing the population of the overcrowded site that international organizations have criticized as unsuitable.

But aid workers said the move will just cause additional suffering for the #Vucjak tent camp’s 1,000 residents, many of whom walked out of the site with empty plastic bottles to beg water from Bosnians living in the vicinity.

Officials in the northwestern town also announced a crisis meeting to discuss what to do with the camp, which hosts migrants stopped in the impoverished Balkan country while trying to reach Western Europe.

“It is obvious that the situation must be brought to the verge of absurdity in order to be solved,” complained Bihac Mayor Suhret Fazlic.

Both the United Nations and the European Union missions in Bosnia have urged authorities to relocate the migrants from Vucjak — which is situated on a former landfill and near minefields left over from the 1992-95 war.

Camp resident Osman Ali, from Pakistan, described conditions as “bad, very bad.”

“I think all people here are seeking a better situation, situation is very dirty here,” he told The Associated Press.

Ali and other migrants were lining up Monday for a meal from the local Red Cross. Police last week rounded up hundreds of migrants from Bihac and brought them all to Vucjak, nearly doubling the camp population.

Fazlic has warned that the city will also cut waste collection services to draw attention to the camp’s failings and force the government to share the burden and move some of the migrants to other parts of the country.

Thousands of migrants are stuck in northwestern Bosnia, unable to continue their trek north through neighboring Croatia whose police have been accused of violently repulsing migrants caught trying to illegally cross the border.

Selam Midzic, a Red Cross representative at Vucjak, said cutting the water supply would just raise tensions among the migrants, and consequently with aid workers and locals.

“In the camp itself, migrants will put pressure on the Red Cross representatives, who work here and who have no protection at all, demanding to be provided with drinking water,” he warned.

The U.N. last week warned of a possible “humanitarian emergency” if aid is cut for the camp, urging Bosnia’s government to urgently find a new location.

In the dusty camp, some migrants used puddle water to wash. Lounging outdoors during a spell of unusually warm weather, others said they fear conditions will deteriorate once winter cold sets in.

Ahmed, from Pakistan, said many migrants have been sick: “(We don’t) have water, (or) food, (they) only give one person two (slices of) bread,” he said and added, pointing to his feet and clothing: “No have shoes and no jacket!”

Tens of thousands of people from Asia, the Middle East and Africa emigrate illegally to Europe every year, braving perilous sea journeys and closed borders in the hope of securing a better life in the continent’s more affluent countries.

On Monday, Libya’s coast guard said it intercepted 126 Europe-bound migrants in a rubber boat off the country’s Mediterranean coast.

In Malta, authorities said police arrested 107 people following overnight riots in the Hal Fa migrant detention center.

The interior ministry said the trouble, involving about 300 migrants, started late Sunday when a migrant tried to enter the center while allegedly drunk. A police vehicle was damaged and three police officers slightly injured in the violence.

The U.N. refugee agency expressed concern.

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Inside Bosnia’s ’nightmare’ camp for migrants trying to enter the EU

Aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian disaster in Bosnia, with people facing a winter without proper accommodation.

Bosnia is now a major route into the EU – 45,000 migrants have arrived in the country since the start of 2018.

The country’s official refugee camps are full and the government has not allocated new sites, despite being given £10m by the EU this summer to do so.

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#vidéo #gale #hiver #campement

On dit dans le reportage que la zone autour du camp est entourée de #mines_anti-personnel

Réponse de Simon Missiri à ma question sur l’argent récolté par la #Croix-Rouge pour faire face à la situation humanitaire en Bosnie, via twitter 25.10.2109 :

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Le lien vers le rapport « Emergency Plan of Action Operations Update No .3, Bosnia and Herzegovina : Population Movement » du 25.10.2109

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En complément à cet article du Washington Post dont j’ai pas accès :
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Bosnian authorities have announced the closure of the ad-hoc “camp” in Vučjak, where terrible conditions prevail and refugees have no access to water, toilets, or medical assistance (►https://apps.derstandard.at/privacywall/story/2000110464615/bosnisches-aufnahmezentrum-fuer-fluechtlinge-wird-geschlossen). The camp, which was built on a former garbage dump, has been repeatedly criticised by a number of international and regional organisations for its range of health threats and non-compliance or minimum standards for refugee reception. With the previously announced closure of the temporary reception centres Bira in Bihać and Miral in Velika Kladuša, the question of accommodating thousands of refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina arises, especially given that the weather is rapidly getting worse and winter is coming soon.

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Bosnisches Aufnahmezentrum für Flüchtlinge wird geschlossen

Ein neuer Standort soll gefunden werden, da das Lager nahe einer Mülldeponie und eines Minenfelds errichtet worden war.

Bosniens Sicherheitsminister Dragan Mektić hat am Dienstag die Schließung des Flüchtlingszentrums Vučjak etwa zehn Kilometer von Bihać entfernt angekündigt. Dort halten sich laut dem Minister derzeit zwischen 800 und 1.000 Flüchtlinge und Migranten auf.

Das Aufnahmezentrum war im Juni unweit einer Mülldeponie und eines Minenfelds errichtet worden. Mehrere internationale Organisationen hatten sogleich gewarnt, dass das Zentrum ein ernstes Gesundheits- und Sicherheitsrisiko darstelle und nicht den internationalen Normen entsprechend für die Unterbringung von Flüchtlingen ausgestattet sei.
Keine ehemaligen Kasernen

Föderationspremier Fadil Novalić hat Mektić zufolge dieser Tage einige Standorte für ein neues Aufnahmezentrum vorgeschlagen. Es würde sich um eine Investition von 1,5 bis zwei Millionen Euro handeln, berichtete der Minister. Die Kommunalbehörden sind weiterhin nicht bereit, den gesamtstaatlichen Behörden ehemalige Militärkasernen zur Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen zur Verfügung zu stellen.

Die Behörden des Kantons Una-Sana hatten in der Vorwoche die Schließung von weiteren zwei Aufnahmezentren, Bira in Bihać und Miral in Velika Kladuša, angekündigt. In den beiden Zentren halten sich derzeit rund 2.000 Personen auf.

Im Kanton Una-Sana befinden sich laut früheren Angaben der Regionalregierung etwa 5.000 Migranten und Flüchtlinge, heuer wurden bereits 36.000 registriert. (APA, 29.10.2019)

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Bosnia-Herzegovina: Fearing winter at the Vucjak refugee camp

Conditions in the Vucjak refugee camp in the northwest of the country are dire. The makeshift camp, which was put up in the summer, is dirty, unhygienic, and everything is in short supply as winter approaches.

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Cold weather comes, no relief in sight for Bosnia’s migrants

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Despite the approach of harsh weather, hundreds of refugees and migrants are still stuck in northwest Bosnia in a makeshift camp described by international organizations as dangerous and inhumane.

Desperate men, including many who have made several unsuccessful attempts to cross into neighboring European Union member Croatia, sleep in the ill-equipped Vucjak tent camp. It is located on a former landfill, not far from a minefield left over from Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.

The men spend their days collecting wood from nearby forest to use for the small fires that are their only source of warmth during Bosnia’s chilly fall nights. They get only one meal per day, distributed by local Red Cross volunteers, and are forced to shower outside, with no privacy or even a semblance of comfort.

The Vucjak camp, where they might end up spending the entire harsh Bosnian winter, was set up by local authorities to increase the pressure on the central government, which they have accused of not doing enough to distribute the migrant burden around the country.

Bosnia has been overwhelmed by the arrival of migrants heading toward Europe along the Balkan route. Most migrants flock to its northwest region, which borders Croatia.

This has led to tensions in the border area where most of the over 6,000 migrants now in the country are staying.

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Bosnie : le projet d’ouverture de deux centres pour migrants stagne malgré l’urgence de l’hiver

Entre travaux interminables et lenteurs administratives, l’ouverture de deux nouveaux centres d’hébergement pour faire face à l’afflux de migrants en Bosnie prend du retard. L’ONU appelle le gouvernement à débloquer la situation qui, en l’état, pourrait conduire à des décès de migrants sans abri au cours de l’hiver.

À l’approche de l’hiver, l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) s’est lancée dans une véritable course contre la montre pour mettre à l’abri les milliers de migrants qui survivent dans les bois ou dans le camp de Vucjak, dans le nord de la Bosnie, à la frontière avec la Croatie, membre de l’Union européenne (UE).

Selon Peter Van Der Auweraert, représentant de l’OIM en Bosnie, quelque 2 500 migrants sont actuellement sans abri dans cette région : un millier d’entre eux vivent dans le camp de Vucjak, installés sur une ancienne décharge. Et 1 500 autres sont éparpillés dans les bois alentours, occupant souvent de vieilles bâtisses abandonnées et vétustes.

Les deux centres d’hébergement de Bira à Bihać et Miral à Velika Kladuša tournent, eux, à pleine capacité avec 1 500 personnes dans le premier (principalement des hommes seuls) et 600 à 700 personnes dans le second (principalement des familles et des mineurs non-accompagnés).

Chaque jour, de nombreux migrants continuent d’affluer dans le canton d’Una Sana avec l’espoir de réussir à franchir la frontière croate et ainsi entrer dans l’UE. Le ministère de la Sécurité évalue à au moins 50 000 le nombre de migrants ayant traversé le pays l’année dernière à destination de l’Europe.

Les autorités locales du canton d’Una Sana peinent de plus en plus à faire face à l’afflux de migrants et se heurtent à la grogne des citoyens. Plusieurs centaines d’habitants de Bihac ont ainsi manifesté mi-novembre pour demander la fermeture des centres d’hébergement et du camp de Vucjak.

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Le gouvernement bosnien, de son côté, a approuvé début novembre deux nouveaux sites d’hébergement des migrants en dehors de la région d’Una Sana, l’un dans le canton de Tuzla et l’autre dans celui de Sarajevo. Après plusieurs jours d’attente, les équipes de l’OIM ont eu accès la semaine dernière aux bâtiments afin d’évaluer leur capacité et les travaux à faire.

“Mauvaise nouvelle, le site de Tuzla est, pour l’instant, inutilisable. La protection civile nous a informés qu’il restait des mines anti-personnelles autour des anciens baraquements militaires qui devaient être convertis en centre d’hébergement”, indique Peter Van Der Auweraert de l’OIM Bosnie, joint par InfoMigrants. Selon lui, l’opération de déminage prendra plusieurs semaines. Le site ne devrait pas être disponible avant le printemps.
"Le gouvernement n’a pas le sens de l’urgence"

Le site du canton de Sarajevo, lui, est “utilisable”, poursuit Peter Van Der Auweraert. “Mais quatre semaines de travaux sont à prévoir car l’eau courante ne fonctionne pas, l’électricité n’est pas aux normes et il n’y a pas de raccordement aux égouts”, explique-t-il, estimant que ce site serait en mesure d’accueillir la quasi-totalité des migrants qui se trouvent dans les bois et dans le camp de Vucjak. Il vise une ouverture, au mieux, début 2020, à condition que le ministère de la Sécurité donne son feu vert rapidement. “Le problème c’est que le gouvernement central n’a absolument pas le sens de l’urgence, il n’y a pas de véritable volonté politique”, regrette-t-il.

En attendant, l’OIM souhaiterait augmenter la capacité d’accueil du centre de Bira afin d’y transférer un maximum de migrants sans abri, mais les autorités cantonales font barrage. Elles ont même récemment menacé de mettre en place un blocus dans les centres de Bira et Miral empêchant la libre circulation des migrants.

“La neige doit commencer à arriver la semaine prochaine, j’ai très peur que nous ayons rapidement des pertes de vies humaines à cause de l’inaction politique”, prévient Peter Van Der Auweraert, rappelant que que les conditions sanitaires dans lesquelles les migrants de Vucjak survivent sont, en outre, extrêmement précaires. “Ces personnes ont besoin d’une évaluation médicale avant même de pouvoir être transférés dans des centres. On estime, par exemple, que 70% des migrants de Vucjak ont la gale. Malgré l’urgence, on ne peut pas travailler car on dépend des décisions du gouvernement qui n’arrivent pas”, termine-t-il, appelant une nouvelle fois les autorités à réagir.

▻https://www.infomigrants.net/fr/post/21119/bosnie-le-projet-d-ouverture-de-deux-centres-pour-migrants-stagne-malg

Bosnie-Herzégovine : le Conseil de l’Europe demande la fermeture du camp de Vučjak

« Ce camp devrait être fermé sans délai », a déclaré mardi la Commissaire aux droits humains du Conseil de l’Europe, Dunja Mijatović, lors de sa visite à Vučjak. Sur le terrain, les ONG dénoncent un « cauchemar », alors que les migrants et réfugiés se sont lancés dans une grève de la faim pour protester contre les conditions de vie catastrophiques.

« Des gens vont mourir », a déclaré mardi à la presse Dunja Mijatović, la Commissaire aux droits de l’Homme du Conseil de l’Europe, lors de sa visite au camp de Vučjak. « Ce n’est pas un lieu pour des êtres humains. » Depuis trois jours, des migrants de ce campement informel situé à 8 km de la frontière croate et qui « accueille » environ 600 personnes, sont en grève de la faim, refusant la nourriture et les boissons chaudes que des bénévoles de la Croix-Rouge leur apportent une fois par jour. Ce qu’ils veulent, disent-ils, c’est poursuivre leur route vers l’Europe.

Les photos dans la presse montrent des hommes blottis sous des couvertures, certains sans chaussures ni chaussettes, alors que la température a chuté en-dessous de zéro degré. « Nous ne sommes pas des criminels ni des terroristes », proteste un Pakistanais, cité par Radio Slobodna Evropa. « Pourquoi sommes-nous condamnés à vivre ainsi ? J’ai donné de nombreuses interviews pour alerter l’opinion, mais ça n’a rien changé. » Les ONG présentes sur le terrain dénoncent également une situation catastrophique. « Un cauchemar », selon Médecins sans frontières (MSF).

« Les réfugiés et les migrants doivent être transférés dans un endroit chaud, où ils recevront un repas et où il sera possible de traiter leurs demandes de la façon la plus appropriée », a insisté Dunja Mijatović. Elle-même d’origine bosnienne, elle a reconnu qu’elle avait « honte qu’une chose pareille existe dans [son] pays ». « La solution est de fermer ce camp et de faire en sorte que ces gens survivent à l’hiver », a-t-elle plaidé. Dunja Mijatović a prévu de rencontrer vendredi des représentants des différents niveaux institutionnels en Bosnie-Herzégovine.

Le ministre bosnien de la Sécurité, Dragan Mektić, a affirmé que les réfugiés et migrants seraient prochainement transférés dans un nouveau centre d’accueil temporaire à Blažuje, près de Sarajevo. « Les travaux de construction et de rénovation ont commencé et nous prévoyons que les premiers migrants y soient hébergés d’ici deux à trois semaines », a-t-il assuré. Selon le ministère de la Sécurité, la Bosnie-Herzégovine compte sept centres d’accueil officiels où se trouvent actuellement environ 4500 réfugiés et migrants.

▻https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Bosnie-Herzegovine-le-Conseil-de-l-Europe-demande-la-fermeture-du

Bosnie-Herzégovine : les migrants du camp de Vučjak en #grève_de_la_faim

Alors que la neige s’est mise à tomber en Bosnie-Herzégovine, les conditions dans le camp de Vučjak, déjà misérables, ont empiré. Depuis mardi, plusieurs migrants qui tentent de survivre dans le camp refusent de boire et de s’alimenter pour protester contre la situation. Un membre de l’équipe mobile de la Croix-Rouge de Bihac a déclaré à Klix.ba qu’ils avaient refusé d’avaler le repas chaud préparé mardi matin et de boire du thé.

« Nous avons faim, nous mourons, mais nous n’irons nulle part ailleurs en Bosnie-Herzégovine. Nous exhortons l’UE à ouvrir ses frontières », a déclaré l’un des migrants. Outre la nourriture, ils refusent également de nouvelles tentes – sous le poids de la neige, plusieurs se sont déjà écroulées – et des couvertures.

La Commissaire aux droits humains du Conseil de l’Europe, Dunja Mijatović, a demandé mardi la fermeture immédiate du camp.
Bosnie-Herzégovine : la neige est tombée sur le camp de Vučjak

4 décembre - 8h30 : Les premières neiges sont tombées sur le camp de Vučjak, où survivent 800 à 1000 réfugiés, très mal vêtus, souvent sans chaussures. Plusieurs tentes fournies par le Croissant-Rouge turc se sont effondrées sous le poids de la neige.

►https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/courrierdesbalkans-fr-fil-info-refugies-2019-novembre

Vučjak au bout de l’enfer

Des milliers d’exilés se massent dans des conditions épouvantables dans le nord-ouest de la Bosnie-Herzégovine dans l’espoir ténu de gagner l’Union européenne à travers les montagnes.

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▻https://lecourrier.ch/2019/12/08/vucjak-au-bout-de-lenfer
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Le camp de Vucjak évacué, mais le sort de ces migrants n’est en rien réglé

Après des semaines de demandes d’ONG humanitaires et de pression de l’Union européenne sur les autorités de Bosnie-Herzégovine, le campement de Vucjak est en cours d’évacuation.

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Bosnia Puts Off Closing Makeshift Migrant Camp ’Until Further Notice’

Bosnian authorities have indefinitely postponed the scheduled closing of a makeshift migrant tent camp in the northwest of the country.

The closing of the Vucjak camp had been scheduled for December 9, following harsh international criticism of the improper conditions hundreds of people are being housed in. The camp is hosting some 600 migrants, according to the Red Cross.

Rade Kovac, the director of the Bosnian Service for Foreigners’ Affairs, visited the camp on December 9 and said that the authorities had postponed closing the camp until further notice.

Aid groups have repeatedly warned that the Vucjak camp is located on a former landfill and close to a mine field from Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, and has no running water or toilets. Living conditions worsened further after snow started falling last week.

Kovac said the migrants will eventually be moved to one of the reception centers in the Sarajevo Canton. He gave no reason for the postponement, but media reports said the decision was prompted by a lack of proper accommodation at the reception centers.

Bosnia-Herzegovina’s security minister, Dragan Mektic, last week announced that the occupants of the camp on the border with Croatia would be relocated to other camps outside the region.

“It was agreed that migrants would be moved early next week from this locality to other reception centers...and that this makeshift camp would be closed,” Mektic said in a statement on December 6.

The decision to close the camp came after Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, visited Vucjak last week and warned that deaths would be imminent if the camp were not closed at once. “If we don’t close the camp today, tomorrow people will start dying here,” she told reporters while visiting the snow-covered camp.

On December 6, Mijatovic told a news conference in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, that it was now urgent to relocate the migrants and provide them with “decent accommodation.”

"Many people lack adequate clothing and footwear,’’ she said. "It is inhumane and unacceptable to keep people in such conditions.’’

However, some migrants said that despite snow and freezing weather, they will refuse to be moved farther away from the border. Most of the migrants flocked to the northwestern part of Bosnia because they want to continue their journey to Western Europe’s more prosperous countries by crossing the border into European Union member Croatia.

On December 7, migrants at Vucjak resumed accepting food distributed by the Bihac branch of the Red Cross, after refusing it for several days in protest at the announced relocation of the camp.

Bosnian authorities have struggled to accommodate thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Migrants enter Bosnia from neighboring Serbia or Montenegro.

▻https://reliefweb.int/report/bosnia-and-herzegovina/bosnia-puts-closing-makeshift-migrant-camp-until-further-notice

Bosnia, “situazione insostenibile nel campo di Vucjak. Migranti al freddo senza acqua corrente e luce”. Ma la chiusura è rinviata

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Una situazione intollerabile, con tende coperte dalla neve e mancanza delle più elementari condizioni igieniche. È questo lo stato del campo profughi di Vucjak, nel Nord-Ovest della Bosnia-Erzegovina, vicino alla frontiera con la Croazia. Lunedì 9 dicembre le autorità ne hanno rinviato la chiusura, dopo averla annunciata nei giorni precedenti sotto la crescente pressione della comunità internazionale. I media locali, nel dare notizia del rinvio, non ne hanno chiarito i motivi. È possibile che le strutture indicate per l’accoglienza dei seicento profughi non siano ancora del tutto pronte.

Il campo, aperto a giugno scorso vicino a Bihac, si trova su una ex discarica e vicino a terreni minati nella guerra degli anni novanta e non dispone delle infrastrutture più elementari, di acqua corrente o elettricità. I profughi, principalmente giovani uomini, vivono in tende non riscaldate, nonostante le temperature siano scese in questi giorni sotto lo zero.

Era stata in particolare Dunja Mijatovic, commissaria dei diritti umani del Consiglio d’Europa, a chiedere lo smantellamento del campo di Vucjak. La commissaria martedì 3 dicembre si era recata sul posto e aveva denunciato la passività delle autorità bosniache: “Se non si chiude questo campo oggi, domani le persone cominceranno a morire. Di chi sarà la responsabilità?”. Venerdì, davanti alla stampa, aveva di nuovo parlato di condizioni “molto difficili e vergognose”, dicendosi “scioccata” da ciò che aveva visto a Vucjak. Anche Medici senza Frontiere aveva segnalato la difficile situazione dei profughi, molti dei quali sprovvisti di vestiti adeguati ad affrontare il freddo. Le reazioni della comunità internazionale avevano spinto le autorità bosniache a decidere la chiusura immediata del campo all’inizio della settimana successiva, salvo poi tornare sui loro passi.

L’obiettivo, dopo un passaggio temporaneo in vari centri di accoglienza, è accogliere i circa seicento profughi di Vucjak in una ex caserma nei pressi di Sarajevo. Non tutti i migranti sembrano però disposti ad accettare il trasferimento, che significa allontanarsi dalla frontiera con la Croazia, Paese membro dell’Unione europea nel quale intendono entrare per poi proseguire il viaggio verso l’Europa occidentale. Nei precedenti tentativi di trasferire i migranti nella capitale, infatti, i profughi avevano chiesto di tornare a Bihac per essere più vicini al confine.

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En Bosnie-Herzégovine, l’un des pires camps de réfugiés d’Europe évacué

L’évacuation du camp de migrants de Vucjak, en Bosnie-Herzégovine, a démarré mardi 10 décembre, après que la Commissaire aux droits de l’homme du Conseil de l’Europe a demandé aux autorités de « fermer sans délai ». Il y a quelques semaines, Mediapart y avait constaté les conditions de vie honteuses. Reportage.

Début décembre, en visite sur place dans la neige, la Commissaire aux droits de l’homme du Conseil de l’Europe avait demandé aux autorités bosniennes de « fermer Vucjak sans délai ». Dans ce camp informel apparu en juin dernier à l’extrémité nord-ouest de la Bosnie-Herzégovine, des réfugiés s’entassent dans des conditions honteuses, cherchant à rallier à pied la frontière croate, puis la Slovénie et l’Italie derrière. Elle-même bosnienne, Dunja Mijatovic avait formulé cette requête à la mi-octobre déjà, sans succès.

Cette fois, l’évacuation a commencé, mardi 10 décembre, en début d’après-midi. « Pour des raisons de sécurité », les journalistes n’ont pas eu le droit d’accéder au site, contraints de suivre le déroulé des opérations loin de cette ancienne décharge, sur laquelle les autorités du canton d’Una-Sana avaient établi un camp, à quelques kilomètres seulement de la Croatie (membre de l’UE). Le week-end dernier, des migrants résidant là s’étaient mis en grève de la faim à l’annonce de leur relogement loin de la frontière.

En 2019, en Bosnie-Herzégovine, davantage d’arrivées de migrants ont été enregistrées qu’en Espagne ou en Italie.

Bosnie-Herzégovine, envoyés spéciaux. – Chacun s’est emmitouflé du mieux qu’il a pu. Certains ont des couvertures roulées sur les épaules, un homme brandit un étonnant parapluie vert, tous portent un gros sac sur le dos et un duvet en bandoulière. Les adieux sont brefs avec les compagnons qui restent au camp de Vu#jak, en Bosnie-Herzégovine. Cet après-midi brumeux, ils sont vingt-cinq à prendre la route de la frontière avec la Croatie, membre de l’Union européenne, située à moins d’une heure de marche. Vingt-cinq à s’engager dans le game, le « jeu » très risqué du passage de la frontière.

« J’ai déjà essayé six fois de passer », raconte Muhammad, un jeune Pakistanais. « À chaque fois qu’ils nous arrêtent, les policiers croates nous ordonnent de poser devant nous nos téléphones portables et ils les cassent. On doit aussi donner tout notre argent. Ensuite ils brûlent nos sacs, nos vêtements chauds et nos chaussures. Puis ils nous reconduisent jusqu’à la frontière de la Bosnie- Herzégovine. » Malgré ces mauvais traitements répétés, le jeune homme recommencera le gamedès qu’il aura réussi à réunir un peu d’argent pour s’équiper à nouveau. Selon lui, il faut compter 300 euros pour avoir de quoi refaire les dix jours de route à pied, caché, jusqu’en Slovénie. Pas pour les passeurs, mais pour se payer un téléphone, de nouveaux vêtements chauds et de la nourriture.

Le camp de Vucjak a été établi le 16 juin dernier sur le site très pollué (au méthane, notamment) d’une ancienne décharge, à une dizaine de kilomètres de Biha#, dans le nord-ouest de la Bosnie-Herzégovine. La frontière croate se franchit dans la montagne. Durant la guerre des années 1990, la zone a été âprement disputée et les abords du camp restent truffés de mines.

Tout l’été, le terrain était infesté de serpents. Cet automne, ce sont les sangliers qui, chaque nuit, viennent chercher de la nourriture jusque dans les tentes fournies par la Croix-Rouge turque. Ils sont 800 à 1 000 à dormir dans ce cloaque, au milieu des immondices. Des hommes seuls, à qui l’on refuse l’entrée dans les camps, surpeuplés, de Biha# et de Velika Kladuša, gérés par l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM), qui n’acceptent plus que les mineurs et les familles.

Selon Nihal Osman, coordinatrice locale de Médecins sans frontières (MSF), 7 à 8 000 migrants se trouvent aujourd’hui présents dans le canton de Biha# : 3 200 dans les camps de Bira, Miral, Sedra et Borici, plus de 4 000 dans les squats établis dans des maisons vides ou des usines abandonnées, ou bien sous les tentes de Vucjak. À l’intérieur du camp, le tableau sanitaire est affolant.

De nombreux réfugiés reviennent blessés du game, à cause des sévices infligés par la police croate. Presque tous souffrent de diarrhée et de maladies de peau, dont de nombreux cas de gale. La mairie de Biha# livre chaque jour 20 000 litres d’eau, mais les douches en plein air sont jonchées d’immondices. Les résidents doivent faire leurs besoins dehors : les sanitaires sont depuis longtemps hors d’usage. Avec les brumes humides de l’automne, la température tombe déjà en dessous de zéro certains soirs, beaucoup souffrent de la grippe, tandis que MSF recense de nombreux cas de tuberculose et de sida.

« Si ces personnes restent à l’extérieur, comme c’est le cas aujourd’hui, il y en a qui vont mourir cet hiver, prévient Nihal Osman. Ici, les températures peuvent descendre sous les – 20 °C et les feux de branchage ne suffiront pas. » L’ONG n’intervient pas à l’intérieur du camp de Vu#jak, refusant de cautionner son existence. Pour assurer malgré tout sa mission humanitaire, son personnel opère dans une petite clinique établie dans le village voisin, malgré l’hostilité des riverains. « On est obligé de se faire discrets. On ferme à 15 heures, avant que les gens reviennent du travail », explique Nihal Osman.

Seule la Croix-Rouge locale délivre un repas par jour – ce lundi, c’était une louche de riz, un peu de sauce à la viande, quelques fines tranches de pain et un litre de soda. Depuis l’été, les organisations internationales pressent les autorités bosniennes de trouver un autre emplacement, mais celles-ci font la sourde oreille. « Tout le monde se focalise sur le scandale humanitaire de Vu#jak, nuance Nihal Osman, mais le problème est européen. De plus en plus de gens s’engagent sur la route des Balkans, et le canton de Biha# en est le débouché naturel. »

De fait, Bihac, à l’extrémité nord-ouest de la Bosnie- Herzégovine, constitue le point le plus proche de la Slovénie et de l’Italie, l’objectif que veulent gagner tous ceux qui se massent ici. Pour y demander l’asile et poursuivre leur route plus sereinement vers les pays de l’ouest et du nord de l’Union européenne. Pour la Bosnie-Herzégovine, en 2019, 28 327 arrivées ont été officiellement enregistrées, en hausse de presque 5 000 par rapport à 2018 et presque 30 fois plus qu’en 2017. En Europe, seule la Grèce a enregistré plus d’arrivées. La Bosnie-Herzégovine dépasse désormais l’Espagne et l’Italie.

Se souvenant de leur expérience personnelle pendant la guerre de 1992-1995, les habitants du canton d’Una Sana ont longtemps regardé avec bienveillance et solidarité les exilés bloqués dans cette impasse de la route des Balkans. Mais aujourd’hui, c’est un sentiment de lassitude et d’exaspération qui domine. Plusieurs manifestations anti-migrants ont eu lieu à Biha# ces dernières semaines, et les autorités locales mettent des bâtons dans les roues des rares humanitaires présents sur le terrain, comme Médecins sans frontières. En fait, les réfugiés paient au prix fort les sombres calculs politiques qui opposent les autorités locales à celles de la capitale, Sarajevo.

Une longue odyssée balkanique

Le contrôle des frontières et la gestion des migrations relèvent théoriquement de l’État central de Bosnie- Herzégovine et de son ministère de la sécurité, mais le canton d’Una Sana, qui possède son propre ministère de l’intérieur, relève de la Fédération de Bosnie- Herzégovine, l’une des deux « entités » de ce pays toujours divisé. Or, les autorités du canton estiment qu’elles sont abandonnées par les autorités fédérales et qu’elles doivent faire face seules à la crise. Leur politique vise à donc à rendre les conditions de vie des migrants les plus difficiles possibles afin de les dissuader de rester sur leur territoire. Depuis deux semaines, elles interdisent même la circulation des réfugiés. Ceux qui sont raflés dans la rue par la police sont immédiatement envoyés à Vucjak.

Pour sa part, l’OIM, qui gère l’ensemble des camps de Bosnie-Herzégovine, par délégation des compétences normalement dévolues à l’État, cherche aussi à délocaliser les migrants en insistant pour l’ouverture d’autres camps officiels à l’intérieur du pays, vers Tuzla ou Sarajevo. Une politique qui a peu de chances d’être suivie d’effet, Biha# restant la « porte d’accès » à la Croatie. De surcroît, bien peu de migrants osent s’aventurer dans le nord de la Bosnie, qui dépend de la Republika Srpska, l’autre « entité » du pays, dont les autorités prônent une fermeté absolue et refusent l’ouverture de centres d’accueil.

Dans les camps officiels, l’OIM multiplie les campagnes en faveur du retour volontaire. Beaucoup de travailleurs humanitaires estiment que l’organisation se préoccupe moins d’apporter une réponse humanitaire que de contribuer à la « gestion des migrations » – c’est-à-dire aux politiques visant à dissuader les exilés de tenter de gagner l’Union européenne. Et ils s’étonnent de l’absence quasi totale du Haut-Commissariat aux réfugiés (UNHCR), qui semble avoir délégué ses compétences à l’OIM. Même le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) n’est pas présent. Seules quelques sections nationales de la Croix-Rouge ont envoyé des équipes.

« Les autorités locales voudraient que ces gens aillent ailleurs, considérant qu’elles ont trop de migrants à gérer sur leur territoire, souligne Hannu Pekka Laiho, en mission d’observation pour la Croix-Rouge finlandaise. Le problème, c’est que chacun des acteurs impliqués dans cette crise se renvoie la balle : les Bosniens, mais aussi l’OIM et l’Union européenne. » Appuyé sur sa canne, le vieil homme s’émeut du sort réservé aux malheureux qui échouent ici. « Tout le monde veut se débarrasser de Vu#jak. En attendant, ces gens sont tout bonnement livrés à eux-mêmes. La tension est palpable, mais je m’étonne que ce ne soit pas pire encore vu les conditions dans lesquelles doivent vivre ces hommes. Tous les jours, ils m’interrogent pour savoir si de nouveaux camps vont ouvrir, en Bosnie, ou en Croatie. Je n’ai rien à leur répondre de concret. »

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Deux nationalités dominent à Vucjak, les Afghans et les Pakistanais, qui se regardent en chiens de faïence, chacun occupant sa zone. Les Maghrébins, mal vus, n’osent pas y rester et se réfugient dans les squats. Cet été, un Palestinien a été tué d’un coup de couteau. On trouve pourtant aussi quelques Indiens, et même trois Sénégalais, qui ont trouvé refuge dans le secteur afghan. Djallo, 33 ans, est originaire de Kédougou, à la frontière de la Guinée et du Mali. Il a d’abord rejoint la Turquie, puis il est passé en Grèce, où il a travaillé deux ans dans des fermes. Il s’est ensuite engagé sur la route des Balkans, après avoir économisé suffisamment d’argent, pensait-il, pour rejoindre un pays riche de l’UE.

Djallo détaille les étapes de sa longue odyssée balkanique. Il a franchi clandestinement les frontières de la Macédoine du Nord puis de la Serbie, versant à chaque fois plusieurs centaines d’euros aux passeurs. À Preševo, dans le sud de la Serbie, des Pakistanais lui ont vendu dix euros un faux récépissé de demande d’asile en Serbie, un document pourtant accessible gratuitement. Il a ensuite payé 150 euros le passage

en barque de la Drina, la rivière qui sépare la Serbie et la Bosnie-Herzégovine, puis il a gagné la région de Biha# en bus et se trouve depuis un mois à Vu#jak.

« Dans le nord de la Macédoine, je suis resté bloqué dans un village où ils gardent les gens, tant que les familles n’envoient pas l’argent », raconte-t-il, grelottant dans son manteau élimé, des claquettes en plastique dépareillées aux pieds. Deux jours plus tôt, Djallo a été rapatrié dans le camp, après avoir été violemment renvoyé de Croatie. « Cela faisait dix jours que nous marchions avec un groupe de Pakistanais et d’Afghans. On nous a arrêtés près de la Slovénie et on nous a ramenés jusqu’ici... Je n’ai opposé aucune résistance, mais les policiers m’ont tout pris. » Désespéré, sans un sou, Djallo envisage désormais de repartir en arrière. A minima jusqu’en Grèce, « parce que là-bas, au moins, on peut travailler et gagner un peu d’argent ». Les violences de la police croate visent à dissuader les gens de tenter le voyage. Zagreb a d’ailleurs été félicitée par ses partenaires européens pour sa « bonne gestion » des frontières et pourrait même être appelée prochainement à rejoindre l’espace Schengen.

▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/101219/en-bosnie-herzegovine-l-un-des-pires-camps-de-refugies-d-europe-evacue

After 179 days (5 months and 26 days) the Vucjak jungle was evacuated and its structures and tents destroyed with the excavator. 7 buses transported migrants to the Usivak camp in Hadzici, outside Sarajevo, managed by IOM. On 10 December, the eviction of the Vučjak area started. Volunteers from the region report that the authorities in Una Sana Canton and IOM announced that from this day on, Vucjak jungle will not exist. During the press conference on Monday, Bihac authorities announced that no media can be present at Vucjak during the eviction which is a serious issue restricting the work of the media, but also the right of the public to know what is happening.

Volunteers and activists on the field denounce that “media freedoms are at serious risk at the moment in Bosnia and Herzegovina in many ways. The authorities and international organizations are doing everything they can in order to restrict the media from accessing the places where refugees are, being camps run by the IOM or places like Vucjak during the eviction. Additionally, all parties involved are investing a lot of effort in spearing propaganda of different types, including hate propaganda. Local volunteers strictly condemn that international organizations are still not doing enough: “volunteers in Sarajevo are noticing more and more people in the streets, sleeping rough, among them many minors, with no care at all. The only help provided comes from the citizens, while DRC, Red Cross, cantonal authorities, IOM, UN agencies are staying aside and ignoring this fact.” Updates come also from another city of Bosnia and Herzegovina: In Tuzla, over 100 people are staying outside. People are still arriving from Serbia, daily, even though much less than during previous months. As well as in Sarajevo, many people are hosted by the locals.

If you want to keep updated on some border points like Lesbos, Patras, Athens, Šid and Velika Kladuša, you can listen the podcast that independent volunteers and volunteers working for small organizations in Greece and some of the EU’s external borders report weekly on their daily work and the dire conditions in which refugees and migrants are living. The audios are in Spanish and, time permitting, subtitles are also provided in Serbo-Croatian and English. Here the youtube channel (▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HjVrr5IF3Q

) where you can follow the weekly updates. Overall, they report a worsening situation at all these points. And not only because of the arrival of cold days, but above all because of the deliberate, and more and more systematic, violation of the rights of people on the move. Constant harassment and police violence, horrific and degrading living conditions, racist and inhumane treatment and much more, along with anti-immigration laws that are becoming more restrictive in all countries every day, all of this makes the lives of thousands of people destroyed on daily bases.

Reçu via Inicijativa dobrodosli, mail du 17.12.2019.

Le problème des #mines et des #camps_minés avait déjà été soulevée en 2015 en #Croatie :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/409102

sur la frontière Bosnie-Croatie, il y a plus de choses sur seenthis, notamment ce fil :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/702915

Voici les autres images :

https://i.imgur.com/r2Ri6OG.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/GHnHpDS.jpg https://i.imgur.com/aOkdxvk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/c073wm5.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Ncd1tAp.jpg https://i.imgur.com/n0JF9YZ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/kRzRzZx.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VzBTORJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/6NmyCDD.jpg

Et avec ces images, j’ai fini de charger les photos prises à Phonsavan...

J’ai bien galéré pour créer la fiche dans Sens critique !

#mines_antipersonnel

celle-ci peut-être?
▻https://misportal.hcr.hr/HCRweb/faces/simple/Map.jspx

Croats Use Facebook to Help Guide Refugees

Friends of refugees in Croatia have set up a Facebook page to help refugees get to Western Europe, showing them the way and posting warnings about minefields left over from the 1990s.

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/file/show//Images/Images.New/Places/Croatia/Map%20showing%20minefield%20in%20Croatia.%20Photo%20by%20Facebook.jpg

Après la Serbie et le Danube, sur cette carte de 1996 on en voit le long de la frontière hongroise ?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Croatia_minefields.png

CESI : ▻http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/7431/regionalnaminskamapa.gif

Sur reddit

http://i.imgur.com/SJbjrwZ.jpg

merci @touti, je pense que la première que j’ai trouvée est peut-être la meilleure solution, car c’est une carte topo qu’on peut zoomer.

Trouvée dans un commentaire sur Mediapart.

http://voyages.ideoz.fr/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Carte-mines-Croatie-Centrale.jpg

C’est la même que celle-ci :
▻https://misportal.hcr.hr/HCRweb/faces/intro/introduction.jspx
(mais à partir de ce site, il est possible de faire des zoom)

EU-bound migrants at risk of land mines in Croatia

People trying to walk to the EU via Croatia, after Hungary sealed its border, risk straying into old minefields, a Facebook group has warned.

https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/euobs-media/73e19af0e041b14af9a9de61947ec2e9-800x.jpg

▻https://euobserver.com/justice/130295

Effectivement @cdb_77 , la carte trouvée sur reddit (en serbo-croate) en signale plus que celle du HCR …

En Croatie, une page Facebook pour aider les migrants à éviter les champs de mines

« Chers réfugiés, bienvenue en Croatie ! » Depuis plusieurs semaines, une page Facebook créée par des Croates affiche sa solidarité et son soutien et appelle à des actions en faveur des milliers de migrants venus pour la plupart de Syrie, d’Irak et d’Afghanistan qui tentent de rejoindre l’Europe de l’Ouest.

▻http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/09/18/en-croatie-une-page-facebook-pour-aider-les-migrants-a-eviter-les-champs-de-mines/#xtor=RSS-32280322

Voici la page facebook:
▻https://www.facebook.com/dobrodosli.dragi.imigranti/timeline

Le problème des mines et #camps_minés semble ressurgir en #Bosnie en 2018 :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/733751

2019:

Rotta balcanica: i volantini anti-mine distribuiti ai migranti dalla Croce Rossa
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/815921