Bosnia

Of Alia Alex Čizmić On March 4, in a wooded area near Saborsko, a Croatian village about 40 km from the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, a migrant of still unknown nationality lost his life after coming across an anti-personnel mine. According to Andreja Lenard, spokesperson for the Karlovac police, the administrative region to which Saborsko belongs, four other people, including two Pakistanis, were injured. One would be in danger of dying. That fatal mine was one of approximately 17,000 still present in Croatia, according to data from the Croatian Ministry of the Interior.Saborsko, the victim of a massacre in which 29 people were brutally killed on November 12, 1991 during the war that led to the dissolution of Yugoslavia, is one of the 46 contaminated municipalities. The problem of unexploded mines also concerns Bosnia and Herzegovina, where 617 people have died accidentally or in demining operations since the end of the war.The Mine Removal Center of Bosnia and Herzeg...