Vučjak refugee camp

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The refugee camp Vučjak was built in the summer of 2019 refugee camps on the territory of the municipality Bihac in the Una-Sana Canton in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina . The camp was located on the site of a former landfill near the village of Vučjak at the foot of the Plješevica ridge , about five kilometers as the crow flies from the Croatian border (and thus the external border of the EU ). In October 2019 there were around 800 male residents here.

At the beginning of December 2019, around 600 refugees went on hunger strike. As an envoy from the Council of Europe, Dunja Mijatović visited the camp and requested it to be closed on December 6, 2019.

Even Doctors Without Borders the closure of the camp had demanded that began on December 10 of 2019. The residents are to be brought to a former barracks near Sarajevo . Before the closure, however, several had announced their return in the event of a relocation so that they could continue to camp near the border.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Refugees in Vucjak: Fear of Winter | DW | 06/11/2019. Accessed December 10, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Srdjan Govedarica-ARD Studio Vienna: Helpers have to leave the refugee camp in Vucjak - Bosnia and Herzegovina. October 3, 2019, accessed on December 10, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ ORF at / Agencies red: Hunger strike in the Bosnian refugee camp Vucjak. December 5, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b "Migrants in Bosnia refuse to move from camp near Croatian border" aljazeera.com from December 6, 2019
  5. ↑ Doctors Without Borders calls for the Vucjak refugee camp to be closed. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Vucjak migrant camp: Bosnian authorities break up slum camps . In: Spiegel Online . December 10, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 10, 2019]).

Coordinates: 44 ° 46 ′ 52.3 "  N , 15 ° 50 ′ 8.4"  E