Nearly 500 irregular migrants staying in tents at the Vucjak Camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the air temperature drops to below 10 degrees, hope for EU member Croatia to open doors.
Since they are not allowed to advance, immigrants who do not eat the food distributed by charitable organizations for 2 days are washed with melted snow waters and try to warm up with fires they gather from the forest.
"They don't want help, they want the doors open"
Muhammad from Afghanistan, said that the biggest problems for now is cold weather and snowfall, because the air temperature falls below zero for two days at night, he said they were very cold.
Muhammad explained that there are no stoves in the tents in the camp and said, "We don't want help. We want the roads cleared and allowed to move forward. This is not life".
Muhammad said, "There are men who stay here for 6 months. They tell us to go to the camps below, but after winter we will come here again. This is no use. The greatest help to us is to open roads."
With the first snow of the season, the camp, which only consisted of tents, had unfavorable life and hygiene conditions, the conditions for the hundreds of immigrants here became much worse. Immigrants struggling to survive in the camp, about 15 km from the European Union (EU) Croatia border, demand the opening of border gates and allowing them to move to European countries such as Germany, France, the Netherlands and Italy.
Migrants who do not eat the food distributed by the Red Cross for 2 days because they are not allowed to progress are washed with melted snow waters and try to warm up with the fires they gather from the forest. Irregular migrants, including children between the ages of 13 and 14, hanged in the middle of the camp and said, "We are dying here. We ask the EU to open the borders" with a banner to ask the authorities to remedy their problems.
"GOD BLESS TURKEY"
Ahmad, another Afghan citizen, came to Vucjak Camp a week ago and said, "It is very cold at night. The first snow, it will continue. There is a lot of snow in the mountains. That's why there are few who try to cross the border."
Noting that facilitate the work of the Turkish Red Crescent tent in the camp, Ahmed said, "God bless Turkey. Without these tents, it would have been much worse here."