Currently, only two Bosnian cantons are bearing the burden of the migrant crisis in the country, Una-Sana Canton and Sarajevo Canton because the rest of the authorities were not interested in sharing some of the burden, former Security Minister Fahrudin Radoncic told N1 Tuesday.
The migrant crisis has been going on since 2015 and the man who succeeded him, incumbent Security Minister Selmo Cikotic will not be able to solve it by himself, Radoncic pointed out.
“He can’t be accused of being the only culprit [for the crisis]. Milorad Dodik and Dragan Covic (leaders of strongest Serb and Croat parties in the country) don’t want to share the burden of the crisis, the Council of Ministers (as the BiH government is officially called) is not interested in that either, and only two cantons (Sarajevo and Una-Sana Canton) are coping with the crisis heroically,” Radoncic said.
He added he did not allow another 3,000-person camp to open in Sarajevo.
“In that case, we’d have 6,000 migrants in Sarajevo, as many as in entire Serbia. The EU is obliged to help BiH because these migrants want to go there,” he noted.
According to him, strengthening of the country’s eastern border is one of the solutions to the crisis.
“We have to fortify the eastern border, and means hiring 1,200 new police officers. The EU would fund 400 cadets, who could start working in eight months. There is no other solution than to protect the border. We were supposed to start legal deportations of illegal migrants. If we had sent several hundred people home, those who rape and kill –had we returned them – we would have discouraged many from entering BiH. Many were angry with me [when I suggested this], but they came to their senses – realising that the problem must be solved in a multidisciplinary manner “, Radoncic pointed out.
Since 2015, Bosnia has been the hotspot for migrants wanting to enter the EU since Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and other eastern EU countries set hard borders in place.
Since then, migrants have been flocking in Bosnia’s north-eastern Una-Sana Canton due to its vicinity to the Croatian/EU border
Currently, some 4,500 migrants are residing in Sarajevo canton and around 2,500 in Una Sana Canton.
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