Back Towards The Locus

© 2007 Christophe Quirion

A new report from Human Rights Watch details the awful conditions endured by the Roma in Mitrovica, who were driven north by racist thugs in 1999. Housed in makeshift camps by the UNCHR, they became exposed to high levels of lead, which caused “cases of children with black gums, and with lead-related symptoms such as anxiety, concentration and learning difficulties, headaches, disorientation, convulsions, and high blood pressure“. In June 2009, “displaced Roma will have spent a decade in lead-contaminated camps“.