MIGRANT IN KLADUŠA

Migrants in the center of Kladuša MIGRANTS IN KLADUŠA Impossible coexistence in the occupied city: ‘Fear has entered the people. Well, there are 30,000 of them in the region! ' Migrants have their own story. They know that Croatia does not like them, but they feel that they are no longer welcome in Bosnia either By: Mario PušićPosted: 06. September 2020. 23:02 Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail The Atacama Desert in Chile, the Siberian remote Verkhoyansk, the post-nuclear Chernobyl, Tristan da Cunha as the most remote place in the world, 2816 kilometers from the African continent and 3360 kilometers from South America with an active volcano, and the abandoned Cook train station in Australia where four people live. they send them all food because no plant can grow there, nor can a domestic animal survive. These are some of the 20 worst places to live in the world from the list we googled on our way back from the field in Velika Kladuša. We would exaggerate, of course, if we included this northwestern Bosnian municipality among these most inconvenient corners of the globe, but under the impression of the chaos we have just witnessed and the testimonies we have heard, we would like to add: 21. Velika Kladuša (BiH). Migrants downstairs, people tell us, simply took over the city. The hosts must be silent because unwanted guests can easily use a knife, but they will not, they claim, suffer for long. Among the poor from the East, there are more and more criminals, both born and those who are forced to do so, primarily hunger. The clash of civilizations boils over and calls for help, but who can make order there more? image Robert Fajt / Cropix They certainly don't. Only three years ago, the people of Kladuš were the most cordial hosts that migrants could meet on their routes. Individuals offered them beds by their own, they ate at the same table, some caterers turned their own restaurants into their lodgings, asking for nothing in return, counting only that good Allah would appreciate it when the time came. Roses have never bloomed here, hand on heart (except for the eighties of the last century when Fikret Abdić raised Agrokomerc and became the god of the Cazin region). But many tearful years have passed since then. After the famous affair and the "Balkan" wars, Agrokomerc went into a slump, Abdić served 15 years for war crimes, and he will face the end of his term as mayor, which he won four years ago, in pre-trial detention on suspicion of corruption. Sarajevo has not been able to swallow Abdic since his wartime Autonomy of Western Bosnia, and there is even less concern Dodik's Banja Luka for the situation in the Cazin region, so they transport migrants to the border with Croatia with all their forces. The locals tell us that they were betrayed and abandoned, they believe that the migrant route towards them was traced by two combinations, Erdoğan-Izetbegović and Erdoğan-Vučić-Dodik. In the woods, in the fields, in the houses The influx of new people is enormous. On the other hand, the Croatian border is increasingly impenetrable. Those who break through, fall on another obstacle - Schengen, so we can talk about the influx of migrants from the West. The locals tried to distract the buses from Republika Srpska and Sarajevo with a living wall, they did not even dare to stone the vehicles, but even the protest they organized against this situation almost turned into a conflict between former autonomists and supporters of the federation. No one alive can count how many migrants live with them today, in the whole Krajina, if we add Bihać, there are perhaps a record 30,000. The people of Kladuš tell us that it is not an exaggeration to say that for every two locals, one comes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Morocco or Algeria. About 1,300 of them are in Miral, the only legal camp in the municipality. They stayed in abandoned buildings, rented houses, makeshift tent settlements, fields, in the woods, the city park, wherever one turned. They occupied their shops, post offices, banks, devastated gardens, vegetable gardens and taverns. Kladušans no longer keep their shoes outside and dry their clothes because they steal them, they do not have lunch in gazebos in front of their houses because a hungry migrant will most easily get food if he runs into their yard, grabs a piece of meat from a plate and runs. They just wave their hand at the coronavirus problem, who else would bother with epidemiological measures there? The well-known entrepreneur from Kladovo, Rama Hušidić, was also overwhelmed - his house was broken into three times, and the hunting club he chairs as many as nine times. It takes us from the center to the local community of Polje, there are most of them. image Ramo Husidic Robert Fajt / Cropix He says that Kladovo entrepreneurs can no longer count on customers from Croatia and Slovenia because they are rejected by migrants who group in front of shopping malls and "wire" the brand, two. Tourism failed even before it came to life. - Here, we are passing Miral, this is Žalić, this is a place where migrants are hit. The problem is also in our people who rent their houses, so there can be a hundred of them in one. They charge five or ten marks per night, so they take a monthly salary for one night. Here is a former farm, what sheep and cows now, you throw out animals, you throw in migrants. He doesn't care what that migrant will do to the others. It is now the main economic branch - Ramo tells us along the way and gives how migrants are full of forests, fields, fields. - There is no one in the world who can now say exactly how many there are, not even in a thousand. Look at this, a private house, there are 50 of them here, and this one up there. Five people entered my yard, one entered the house, and my wife alone can't drive him out, not to go outside - says Ramo. - This is Šiljkovača, the border with Croatia is about a kilometer away. There are so many of them in these forests that it is unbelievable, there are some on the other side of the border, and then the Croatian police return them, and they try to cross again. Well, then these people from international humanitarian associations say that we had to provide them with accommodation when they gave money for it, and we didn't, so that's why they break in. But it's not my fault, it's not my neighbors' fault. A disorderly country, politics, state, we are left to ourselves. I have two children, they are both in Germany. I am well situated here, but believe me, I am thinking of leaving - says Ramo. Insolence reigned He admits that it used to be different, they bought food, he took a family into the house and left them the key to have a place to be, and even to return if the Croatian police returned them. And now, he concludes, it is a matter of days when they will shoot at each other. - There are now 300 of them in this building. There is a tent settlement on the other side of the river Nepeka, there are about 500 of them - Ramo points out on the way to an abandoned building that was built for the heating plant before the war, but never got its purpose. they bathe naked, build bridges themselves, and organize their lives. They pass us in groups of five, ten, and even thirty of them. Ramo says he tried to tell the groups not to make a mess, but failed. image Robert Fajt / Cropix - They would attack me. They just feel that they are superior now and they don’t have to be afraid, ashamed and you can’t do anything to them. So, I understand that they are people too. I helped them and I would again, but it crossed all borders so much, such rudeness prevailed that there was no end to it. And no one has the courage to say 'we have a problem and we are going to solve it' - concludes Ramo. RELATED NEWS 8651273 LOCALS ON FEET Bizarre situation at the border crossings with BiH: 'This is unbearable, we live like in a ghetto!' TENSION 'They roam the woods day and night, you think they won't attack anyone, but ...' We stopped in front of the hunting lodge, once they stole his laptop from there and sold it to a Kladušanin from whom he then bought it. - They came to the yard, they were already lifting the blinds for me, but they realized that I was at home, so they gave up the burglary, but they picked up all my shoes, even firewood. The people who entered their houses are no longer there. Well, I think there are now seven of us - says Arif Grahović from Nepek, who joined us in the conversation. image Arif Grahović Robert Fajt / Cropix "It's not that much," Ramo replies. - Well, Ramo, there are not even 200 inhabitants in our village, and there are 2000 migrants, so count. And how will you count them? Now that we have started protesting, they have retreated into the woods. Then it's as if the Croatian police give in a little and maybe 1000 of them pass, it is felt. Then part of them come back again. They return them to us from Austria and Germany - says Arif Grahović. Aldijana Munjaković is a young English teacher. She is socially active, she was helpful to migrants. We sit in a gazebo in the backyard of the family home. A club resembling a baseball bat is leaning against a jar of flowers. It’s been there since a migrant ran into their table and took away a bottle of Coca-Cola while they were at family lunch. - We have shown solidarity with them, brought them clothes and food, the people here are such, humane, and they will receive everyone as a friend. And they were fair, they were grateful and they didn’t make trouble. I think at first they were just refugees from war-torn areas. However, after some time the inflow increased and an incident occurred when they blocked the Maljevac crossing. So they moved away from the border, Camp Miral opened, but new ones started arriving, and even more of them. We witness how they arrive every day, but we also watch those returned by the Croatian police. This old-built house across the street was broken into three or four times. It is devastated inside. They destroyed the toilet and defecated where they slept. We wouldn't even know that if the water from the installations hadn't gone to the street - Aldijana tells us, adding that they do not do such things only in abandoned buildings, but also in those where the owners sleep upstairs. image Robert Fajt / Cropix She tells us, she says, only what she saw with her own eyes - It is impossible to live with people on such a civilizational level because they cannot or do not want to integrate in any way. I’ve always been on the side of the weaker and arguing with my father trying to justify them, but now I realize they’re really doing damage. On the side of women, children or people looking for bread, there are nice people here even now, but international organizations treat them all as nice people, and that is simply not the case. They defend people who commit crimes against us, they represent them as victims. There are problems among them, but we locals cannot solve this problem on our own - Aldijana believes, stating that migrants address locals with threatening words in Bosnian as well. Not everyone is the same Her neighbor tells us that a month ago, his wife, who caught two people stealing onions in the garage, was grabbed by the neck by one of them because she objected to it. - We have no one to complain to. They cannot be convicted because they are people without names and surnames. NN is still a crime, and as it is not NN when it raises money in the post office - they illustrate the paradox in which these Kladušans found themselves, who no longer resent the Croatian police for defending their border, unlike in previous years. Migrants have their own story. They say that they themselves want to leave Bosnia as soon as possible, but they cannot because of the Croatian and Slovenian police. Two Pakistanis, Bilal and Adi, are sitting in a park in the center of the town and are planning a new illegal entry into Croatia. They’re in a pretty good mood, having lunch of what they just brought from a nearby store. They have been in Bosnia for six months, they have tried to reach the West 25 times because they want to reach Spain, and on 12 occasions they have reached Slovenia. They say they left home because they were too poor. They know that Croatia does not like them, but they feel that they are no longer welcome in Bosnia either. - Some are good and some are bad. Ten days ago, I was beaten by people from Bosnia, about 15 of them, who took my backpack with my mobile phone and money. Once I was returned from Croatia, I called a taxi to take me to the camp. When the taxi driver came, he hit me in the head. That is why we are sleeping in the jungle now - Pakistanis tell us. In front of the store we meet Muhammad from Morocco. He says he migrated to England six years ago, lived in Liverpool and worked as a swimming teacher, but was, he claims, deported to Morocco due to paperwork problems. Four years ago, he embarked on a new route, but did not get further than Kladuša. He even tried unsuccessfully to enter Croatia 27 times and has so far spent 25,000 euros on the way. He says they are treated like dogs in Bosnia. image Mohammed of Morocco Robert Fajt / Cropix - The Croatian police are beating us, drawing crosses on our heads. I am a Muslim and I believe in Allah. That is why I am not afraid of anything because I know that Allah is with me. Not all migrants are good, half are, half are not, and that is a problem, but in Bosnia now they think that we are all bad. I am good, I am not a criminal, I do not take drugs, I go to the mosque every day and worship with my Muslim brother from Bosnia. But, after that, he tells me on the street that I am going home, that why am I going to Europe, that Europe is Christian - Muhammad complains to us. He adds that Bosnia has become hell just like Croatia. Sofian is from Libya. He claims to have lived in France for five years, but was deported, and there he has a wife and son to whom he wishes to return. image Sofian Bilal Robert Fajt / Cropix - I sleep in the forest, I am safest there because people in Bosnia have turned into animals - says Sofian.