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Gypsy Refugees from Toxic UNMIK Camp Face Deportation from Germany Activists Fear They Will Be Sent Back to the Camp and Believe They Will Die, Should That Happen Edition 8 • July 28 2008 1.00 • WEEKLY NEWSPAPER NEWS Gypsy refugees from toxic UNMIK camp face deportation from Germany Activists fear they will be sent back to the camp and believe they will die, should that happen THE KOSOV @ POST has learned that one of the Gypsy families that was rescued from LEGAL EAGLES a toxic UNMIK camp in north Mitrovica PG 4 by the German newspaper Bild Zeitung in 2005 is facing a deportation hearing in Hamburg. OPINION Bild Zeitung paid for birth certificates, passports, plane fares and medical treatment - including 3,000 euros per child body scans for the eight member family - after running a feature length report on the tragedy that continues in the camp where 77 have died from lead poisoning. Residents of the camp - most of whom have been living on top of tailings piles from a nearby lead and zinc mine for nine years – have registered extremely KARADZIC BUST: dangerous levels of lead in their blood. GOOD FOR SERBIA One child registered the highest levels of lead poisoning ever recorded. Could the Mustafa family – shown here with Dr. Klaus Runow and PG 6 Dr. Rohko Kim, a Harvard trained medical Paul Polansky and Dija Gidzic of Society for Threatened Peoples – be doctor, has been advising the UN on the returned to the toxic UNMIK camp in north Mitrovica that almost killed lead poisoning in their camps in Kosovo. them once? In a speech delivered in 2005 to WHO, EYEWITNESS UNMIK and the Kosovo Ministry of Health, Dr. Kim said: “The present situation in the Roma community who are now living in the camps is extremely, extremely serious. I have personally researched lead poisoning since 1991 but I have never seen in the literature a population with such a high level of lead in their blood. I believe that the lead poisoning in north Mitrovica is unique, which has never been known before in history. This is one of the biggest catastrophes connected with lead in the MITROVICA PROTEST world and in history.” PG 8 After the Mustafas arrived in Germany, Bild Zeitung set them up in an apartment on the outskirts of Hamburg, where they have lived ever since. The total bill paid FOOD by the newspaper for its humanitarian efforts was close to, or slightly in excess of, 50,000 euros. Activists who have been working to save the 500 – 600 Gypsies who remain in the camp fear the family will be returned to the camp should the Mustafas lose their extradition hearing. The family of a girl who was removed from the camp when she was two years old was told by doctors that if she retuned to the camp she would HIGH CLASS DINING die, just like her four year old sister had. PG 11 st English-language newspaper in independent Kosovo 11 EDITION 8 THE KOSOV@ POST JULY 28 2008 IMPORTANT NUMBERS EMERGENCY FLOWER SHOP ‘Remember me’ THE BIG PICTURE POLICE 038 245 345 112-92 044 283 344 FIRE DEPARTMENT HOTELS IN PRISTINA 93 AFA HOTEL AMBULANCE Aki Kelmendi 94 038-225-226 HOSPITAL AMBASSADOR HOTEL 038-500-600 Ardian Krasniqi 1 038-248-300 IMPORTANT INFO BACI HOTEL AIRPORT Mother Theresa 038-548-900 038-548-356 548 430 GRAND HOTEL KEK Mother Theresa 038-224-185 038-220-210 PTK GORENJE HOTEL Information office 038-557-700 988 PRISHTINA HOTEL PTK Vaso Pasha 20 Fix telephony 038-223-284 977 VICTORY HOTEL PTK Mother Theresa Mobile telephony 038-543-277 038 548 367 548 777 HOTELS IN PEJA Taxi Roberti DONA HOTEL 044-111-999 039-34-470 But we can still dance and drink, yeah? Taxi Velania GOLD HOTEL 044-225-325 039-34-571 HANDS OF STONE FITNESS CENTRES IN PRISTINA BAKI VW Taxi VIP PARK HOTEL I once knew With my mentality Vellezerit Fazliu 044-333-444 044-282-832 Roberto Duran had hands what it was like I could have been ‘OLIMP’ 044-112-854 049-665-166 of stone. to have hands of stone. a world champion Bregu I Diellit - Pristina HOTELS IN PRIZEN Equipments; 30 CHURCHES IN AND RADIO Taxi That’s what his fight fans AROUND PRISTINA 038-22 00 11 DARDANIA HOTEL called him, After a street fight if I’d been born ‘Fit IN’ 044-187-264 Dardania - Pristina CATHOLIC CHURCH; Saint KFOR manos de piedra. a doctor put a plaster cast with someone else’s Equipments; 50 + Solarium Antonia di Padova, Pristina 038-503-603 HOLIDAY HOTEL on each hand. hands. + Sauna Don. Leke Oroshi 029-45-002 Fitness ‘Prishtina’ Adress: Ulpiana quarter, I had hands of bone. Prishtina UNMIK Head office Youth Center of Pristina 044-270-001 038-504-604 THERANDA HOTEL Every time I hit a guy, For six weeks Paul Polansky is a poet, Equipments: 30 029-622-292 Procession: Monday-Saturday, I broke my thumbs. I punched down doors, author, journalist and 18:00 Sunday 11:00 MOBILE 049 (IPKO) ‘GYM’ 049-700-700 HOTELS IN Ferizaj smashed glass windows human rights activist. This Behinde Media Building - PROTESTANT CHURCH; 038-700-700 It’s hard to go thru life poem was taken from his Pristina Messiah Evangelist Church, HOTEL KRUJA Equipments; 50 Pristina KOSOVA CHAMBER OF Dardani – Ferizaj your fists aching for a fight pounded big holes in walls, book STRAY DOG: Poems of Pastor: Fehmi Cakolli COMMERCE knowing they’re always hit hundreds of heads, a Fighting Freak. 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