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Long Read: The Landmines Littering the Journey to Europe
A new longform dispatch at Inkstick explores the risks of unexploded ordnance for refugees and migrants leaving Bosnia.
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At a time when fewer mainstream media outlets have focused on displacement and migration, Inkstick has made a point to continue covering the fallout of war, conflict, and economic upheaval — as well as the potentially life-threatening risks refugees and migrants face after departing from their home countries.
In a new long read, journalists Nidžara Ahmetašević and Andrew Connelly, working alongside photographer Maryam Ashrafi, have pieced together an important, timely, and scrupulously detailed deep dive into the dangers for displaced people trying to reach the European Union from Bosnia.
On top of the border violence many refugees and migrants endure at the hands of Croatian police, the terrain would-be asylum seekers must cross is littered with leftover landmines and unexploded ordnance from the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s.
Everyday folks in Bosnia know the risks of these explosives. Watchdog and aid groups work hard to inform refugees and migrants of the dangers. Meanwhile, people continue to make the journey. As one resident of a village told the reporting team, “Gaza, Ukraine — I don’t watch the news anymore. The world comes past my door.”
Read the whole story here, and if you haven’t already caught up on some of our recent reporting on borders and migration, check out these pieces:
“Texas Offers a Blueprint of US Border Enforcement’s Cruel Future”
“War, Love, and Isolation for Transgender Syrians in Lebanon”
“The Pakistani Women Bearing the Brunt of India’s Deportations”
“Germany’s Migration Crackdown Faces Resistance at Home and Abroad”
Inkstick is dedicated to covering war and conflict — as well as their long-term consequences — and proud to showcase this important and often overlooked reportage.
By the way, Inkstick’s Things That Go Boom podcast recently won an International Women’s Podcast Award. At the same time, the Institute for Nonprofit News just shortlisted an episode of the podcast, “Hit Print for War,” for a national Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism.
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With Warmth,
Patrick Strickland
Inkstick Media, managing editor
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