Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 27, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba A12 Winnipeg free tilt paper Side and pour Dair lao Idair Landl i an excellent source of Vitamin d Calcium i photos by Row Davis Winnipeg free press Balic a bosnian wants to leave the Kun Pensko refugee Camp for homecomings on Rise in Bosnia trend called positive for Dayton Accord by Tony Davis staff reporter Croatia the jingling horse carts loaded with belong Ings and the ragtag crowd awaiting buses up the dirt Road seemed like Good omens to Alessandra from the Buzz of Active Morelli guessed that perhaps 200 people trapped for months in the refugee Camp Here had mustered up the courage to head across ithe Border Back to Bosnia 15 Kilometres Down the three times a week buses come to pick up those ready to go in past 10 or 20 people would Brave such a jut the exodus has a Good sign for the Dayton Peac Accord signed last says the Camps this is a kind of Pilot project for the if these people Are Able to return to their Homes in it May help convince other bosnian to return to the villages they left because of the the stretching for about two Kilometres along a shallow Valley in was set up last August by the United nations High commission for the Kun Pensko which costs us a Day to oper is the largest Haven for refugees in the former where More than four million people have been Dis placed by civil wars since we managed to keep everyone alive in the Balkans for two says and 70 babies were born at one Point the Kun Pensko Camps tents and wooden shacks sheltered men women and in the midst of the ethnically fuelled bosnian civil the refugees had waged their own Little private War with fellow mus friends and relatives when a local business Fikret tried to declare his own autonomous that was in Badics mostly men who were his clashed with muslims Loyal to the mostly propping up the peace free press reporter Tony Davis was in Bosnia recently with the Canadian forces As they help maintain the shaky Balkan Accord Mujkic at Camp six months Muslim bosnian government the fighting was so recalls 16yearold Mizrah that bullets were hitting bullets in the but finally the Camp population is beginning to about refugees have been repatriated to their about people have been accepted in other and remain in the every Day More decide that staying in the Camp is a worse Prospect than return ing to communities where the men Are still widely regarded As i never thought of going any where else but Back said one holding an infant while waiting to Board a Ive just been waiting for the situation to Calm i never thought of going any where else but Back said one holding an infant while waiting to Board a Ive just been waiting for the situation to Calm the former upholsterer said the presence of the nato implementation Force bolstered his belief hell be Safe when he returns to but trying to convince every Camp inhabitant that its Safe to go Home is not though there has been just one confirmed Mur Der out of the who have left the Many refugees still prefer a life Here without electricity or running water com pared to the Uncertain alternative of their own whose whereabouts Are still exerts a Strong influence Over the whipping up their fears about those fears Are not completely concedes Clandestine radio broadcasts with unwelcoming messages have been beamed into the Camp from velika they say things like you monkeys coming Back hey you you better watch says it will be Spring not the High commission on refugees imploring or pressure from the croatian that will give refugees the strongest push out of the their land is calling says these people Are mostly and it will be planting time that would make the croatian which has displaced citizens of its own to Cope Treyve been pressuring Morelli to close the Camp within the next few Emina once employed As a has been living in the Kun Pensko Camp with four relatives including a Newborn baby for six their Shel Ter is a tiny a wooden Shack smaller than most Winnipeg outside the front door sits a cooking pot full of and another pot full of murky cooking inside the tiny crammed with a stereo plays traditional it is hooked up to a car Battery out the family invites a reporter in for a tiny cup of the thick turkish she glances at her Sisters infant and adds its Good for the baby that she does not know about maybe she will be the generation in Bosnia that will not see a r i i i pour fresh milk into this p m Dairyland m 1 i i i ;