Migrants in Bosnia moved from overcrowded camps
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(10 Sep 2020) Authorities in
(10 Sep 2020) Authorities in Bosnia began moving migrants from two large overcrowded camps to other facilities across the country after a recent spike in the number of migrants arriving to Bosnia.
The congested Bira and Miral camps, near the towns of Bihac and Velika Kladusa, are run by the International Organisation for Migration.
The camps have recently seen the arrival thousands of migrants hoping to illegally cross into neighbouring European Union (EU) member Croatia.
When other nations in the Balkans and central Europe closed off previously established migration paths, Bosnia became a bottleneck for thousands of migrants from the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa seeking better lives in Europe.
Migrants mostly enter Bosnia across the Drina River, on its eastern border with Serbia.
From there, they traverse the impoverished and ethnically divided country to reach Krajina, which stretches along a highly porous segment of Bosnia's border with EU-member Croatia.
In August, in an apparent violation of Bosnia's human rights and immigration laws, local authorities deployed police officers to the main highway connecting the Krajina region to the rest of the country with orders to stop and turn back all the migrants they encounter.
In response, the police forces of adjacent administrative regions started blocking migrants from walking back to their areas.
In that time, around 200 people, including women and children, were taken off buses and trains and left trapped on the side of a road near the town of Bosanska Otoka.
The anti-migrant sentiment is also very high and still growing, in part stoked by local and national authorities that portray migrants as a homogenous, crime prone group, despite it conflicting with the official crime statistics.
The hostility has sparked a proliferation of vocal vigilante groups that are threatening migrants with violence and expulsion.
Several cases of migrants being severely beaten and in one case even stabbed and seriously injured have been reported over the past 10 days.
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The congested Bira and Miral camps, near the towns of Bihac and Velika Kladusa, are run by the International Organisation for Migration.
The camps have recently seen the arrival thousands of migrants hoping to illegally cross into neighbouring European Union (EU) member Croatia.
When other nations in the Balkans and central Europe closed off previously established migration paths, Bosnia became a bottleneck for thousands of migrants from the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa seeking better lives in Europe.
Migrants mostly enter Bosnia across the Drina River, on its eastern border with Serbia.
From there, they traverse the impoverished and ethnically divided country to reach Krajina, which stretches along a highly porous segment of Bosnia's border with EU-member Croatia.
In August, in an apparent violation of Bosnia's human rights and immigration laws, local authorities deployed police officers to the main highway connecting the Krajina region to the rest of the country with orders to stop and turn back all the migrants they encounter.
In response, the police forces of adjacent administrative regions started blocking migrants from walking back to their areas.
In that time, around 200 people, including women and children, were taken off buses and trains and left trapped on the side of a road near the town of Bosanska Otoka.
The anti-migrant sentiment is also very high and still growing, in part stoked by local and national authorities that portray migrants as a homogenous, crime prone group, despite it conflicting with the official crime statistics.
The hostility has sparked a proliferation of vocal vigilante groups that are threatening migrants with violence and expulsion.
Several cases of migrants being severely beaten and in one case even stabbed and seriously injured have been reported over the past 10 days.
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