Lipa migrants still waiting in buses to be transferred to a new BiH location

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Some 900 migrants who resided in Bosnia's camp Lipa are still waiting to be transferred to a more humane location after State Security Security Minister Selmo Cikotic said they would be transferred from Bihac, where Lipa is located to military barracks in Bradina, southern BiH. This, however, never happened and migrants are still sitting the busses they boarded Tuesday.

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Konjic Municipality Mayor, where Bradina barracks are located, Osman Catic said he “believes no one and that this could be some kind of game,” while Bradina residents gathered around the barracks preventing the possible entrance of migrants into the building.

The Head of the International Organisation for Migrations (IOM) to Bosnia Peter Van der Auweraert said the migrant situation is horrible and that IOM teams are providing humanitarian help to these people together with the Danish Refugees Council.

Even the local authorities, the Interior Minister of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, wrote to Cikotic saying the local police cannot escort the busses to Bradina, near Konjic.

N1 went to Bradina barracks and confirmed that there is neither heating nor shower rooms. The barracks building has 37 rooms including the bathroom with a sink and squats. The building was used as the recruiting centre where the army resided. It is considered non-perspective property because it is no longer needed by the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina.