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- The relocation of some 500 homeless refugees and migrants from a burned camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina has apparently failed.
- The plan was to take the people to a military shelter in central Bosnia.
- However, according to local media, after protests by local politicians, they were returned to the burned camp in the west of the country.
The migrants were left in the open and left to fend for themselves. They had spent the night before on buses that did not leave due to the protests in Konjic. The Bosnian government assigned them a former army barracks in Bradina district as new accommodation.
More than a thousand refugees without shelter
The Lipa camp was cleared a week ago by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) because the Bosnian authorities had not kept their promises to winterize the camp. But initially a replacement was not offered.
More than a thousand refugees and migrants had been left without shelter in the inhospitable area 25 kilometers southeast of Bihac. Some of the youths had set fire to tents and containers when they were evicted.
In Bosnia, the mood of the population has turned against the approximately 10,000 refugees and migrants since the Balkans became a transit area on the so-called Balkan route.
Migrants don’t want to stay in Bosnia. Thousands of them are trapped there because they have not yet been able to cross the “green” border into neighboring EU country Croatia.
