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The Lipa camp is located in an inhospitable area 25 kilometers southeast of Bihac. It was erected in September after the Bosnian authorities successfully closed the Bira camp on the outskirts of Bihac. As a result of this measure, refugees and migrants should disappear from the urban landscape of the city of 60,000 inhabitants in northwestern Bosnia.
Inhuman
The authorities never kept their promise to connect Lipa to electricity and water. Refugee workers criticized the inhumane conditions in the camp. The Austrian organization SOS Balkanroute called it “Moria at our doorstep”, referring to the refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, which caught fire in September.
Due to their proximity to the EU country, Croatia, Bihac and Una-Sana canton are very attractive to refugees and migrants. A branch of the so-called Balkan route runs through Bosnia, through which refugees and migrants try to get from Turkey to Western Europe.
