Bosnia risks humanitarian disaster: Thousands Sleep on the Road

Two camps in the Krajina region have been emptied and hundreds have been sent to the vicinity of Bihac, where camps are already in complete collapses by overcrowding. But most of them, about 2,500, are at the mercy of fate, in uncontrolled and spontaneous camps, just miles from the EU border that they have dreamed of for nearly 3 years, since part of the EU countries closed their borders.

The Bosnian province shares about 1,000km with the Croatian border, and that is where the majority of the 10,000 refugees in the Balkan country are gathered.

Although the EU has donated about 60m euros to support Bosnia and Herzegovina in refugee management, institutions such as IOM and civil society have long condemned inadequate housing conditions.

According to Peter Auweaert, IOM's Western Balkans co-ordinator, “25 people are sleeping in the open sky, spending the following nights in the cold, without a roof, so sad and no humane”.