{"id":141366,"date":"2020-12-24T23:41:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T20:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/migrants-left-without-shelter-after-bosnia-camp-burns-down\/"},"modified":"2020-12-24T23:41:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T20:41:53","slug":"migrants-left-without-shelter-after-bosnia-camp-burns-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/migrants-left-without-shelter-after-bosnia-camp-burns-down\/","title":{"rendered":"#Migrants left without shelter after Bosnia camp burns down"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Migrants left without shelter after Bosnia camp burns down<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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BIHAC, Bosnia \u2014 More than a thousand migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were left to sleep in the cold after their camp in northwestern Bosnia burned down amid a dispute among Bosnian politicians over where to house them.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, a fire destroyed the camp in Lipa housing about 1,200 people. Police and UN officials have said the blaze was probably started by migrants unhapp<\/a>y at the temporary closure of the camp, scheduled for the same day, and uncertainty about where they would be relocated in Bosnia.<\/p>\n

Dozens of men spent the night at a damaged metal container near the site of the fire, where only a ghostly steel construction remained. Smoke was still rising from some burned patches of ground Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

Other migrants tried to erect nylon tents and slept fully dressed on the frozen ground. Most of them walked through the woods toward the town of Bihac, near the Croatian border, avoiding areas marked with warnings about landmines remaining from the Bosnian war in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

About 10,000 migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa are stuck in Bosnia, hoping to reach wealthier countries in the European Union.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t sleep last night, I sat all night,\u201d said Bylal from Pakistan, adding that he would wait to see if the government would provide them with a new shelter.<\/p>\n

The Lipa camp, which was opened last spring as a temporary shelter for the summer months 15.5 miles away from Bihac, was set to be shut on Wednesday for winter refurbishing. But Bosnia\u2019s authorities failed to find alternative accommodation for residents.<\/p>\n

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Migrants try to warm themselves near the burned Lipa migrant center in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Dec. 24, 2020. <\/figcaption>
Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The central government wanted the migrants to temporarily return to the Bira camp in Bihac, which was shut down in October, but local authorities disagreed, saying that other parts of Bosnia should also share the burden of the migrant crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease open the Bira camp so everybody goes there, it\u2019s very good there,\u201d said Yasin, also from Pakistan. \u201cHere it\u2019s cold, we can\u2019t stay here, we don\u2019t have food, we are hungry.\u201d<\/p>\n

The European Union, which had supported Bosnia with $73,084,500 to manage the migrant crisis and pledged $30,451,875 more, has repeatedly asked the authorities to find an alternative to the unsuitable Lipa camp, warning of an unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe urge \u2026 the authorities to rise above political considerations and temporarily reopen the centre Bira in Bihac,\u201d the EU said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\"Migrants
Migrants try to warm themselves near the burned Lipa migrant center in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Dec. 24, 2020. <\/figcaption>
Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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