FANTASTIC EUROPE

by F. Vanwalleghem

In 2009, ten years after the war and the NATO intervention in Kosovo, 160 Roma refugee families are still living in camps built by the United Nations on the most toxic waste tip on the verge of Europe. Between the crossfire of Serbian and Albanian extremism in North Mitrovica, these people tell a tale of despair.

The camps were built close to the Trepca lead mine. This factory was closed by order of the UN administration in 2000. The soil is heavily contaminated, the children have some of the highest measured levels of lead, arsenic and cadmium ever recorded.

Despite promises that they would be moved from their ‘temporary’ accommodation on waste tailings within 45 days in 2000, they have been left there to survive for the last ten years.

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2 Responses to “FANTASTIC EUROPE”

 

  1. karel says:
    October 2, 2009 at 5:16 am

    zoals je weet, heerlijke fotografie



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