Serbian towns in Bosnia are trying to turn into European landfills
The authorities of the Lebanese Canton (Canton 10) of the Federation of (Bosniak-Croatian) BiH illegally dumped textile waste from Italy in the Serbian towns of Drvar and Bosansko Grahovo.
This was reported by RTRS, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Residents of the Serbian communities of Canton 10 have won a legal battle against the Drvar-based company Krom reciklaža, which, with the approval of local authorities, dumped some 300 tons of textile waste from Italy at the height of the pandemic last year in the overwhelmingly Serb town alone.
The removal of Italian garbage has already begun, and 15 garbage trucks had to be deployed for this purpose.
A similar situation is observed in neighboring Bosansko Grahovo, also a town with a historically predominant Serbian population. However, they have not yet started collecting garbage there.
At the same time, local authorities do not even think about looking for those responsible for causing damage to the environment.
This attitude of the BiH Federation towards local Serb communities has been observed for several years now: in addition to garbage dumps, cantonal authorities populate Serbian villages filled with migrants, hang out on state institutions provocative and insulting symbols to Serbs, prohibit local Serbs to express their identity, do not give Serbian children have the opportunity to receive education in their native language. Local Serbian organizations are convinced that with such actions the Bosniak-Croat administration will at least squeeze the Serbian population out of the Federation of BiH.
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