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Return
of refugees in former Yugoslavia - 25 photos
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Croatia,
2003
A decade after the war in Croatia is
finished, war trails are still visible. On this image, man
smokes cigarettes in a house with bullet marks from the war.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Bosnia
and Herzegovina, 2003
A Serb, refugee repatriate, returns
to his home in Bosnia, which is destroyed and burned to the
ground during the Bosnian war. More than 150 000 Serbs have
fled from Bosnia at the beginning of armed conflict in this
former Yugoslav Republic , and as refugees they found shelter
in collective refugee camps in Serbia.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Bosnia
and Herzegovina, 2003
A Serb, refugee repatriate, starts to
rebuild his destroyed home in Bosnia. UNHCR (The UN refugee
Agency) in the cooperation with local refugee agencies starts
a program of rebuilding destroyed homes and repatriation of
internal displaced persons (refugees) in all ex Yugoslav republics.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Bosnia
and Herzegovina, 2003
A Bosnian Serb, refugee repatriate,
starts to rebuild the Serbian Orthodox church in his village,
destroyed during the war in Bosnia.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Bosnia
and Herzegovina, 2003
Brothers, both are Serbian refugees
repatriates, in the destroyed village church.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
Serbian refugees repatriates are preparing
for a return to their homes after 10 years being in a collective
refugees camps around former Yugoslavia. During the war in
Croatia 1991-1995, more than 250 000 Serbs have fled Croatia
as refugees.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
An elder Serb, refugee repatriate, packed
in the UNHCR vehicle together with his house properties, on
the way to his house in Croatia.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
Serb, refugee repatriate, back to the
ruins of his house after being 10 years in a refugee camp.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
An elder woman, Serbian refugee repatriate,
finally after 10 years of refugee life in camps is back to
her village where she was born, in Croatia.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
An old man, Serbian refugee, is coming
back to the ruins of his home in Croatia.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
An old Serb, refugee repatriate, tells
about his difficult refugee days in collective camps, about
never ending conflict between Serbs and Croats, crimes in
II World War, about Serb exodus under Ustasa`s regime, about
most recent war in Croatia 1991-1995....
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
An old Serb, refugee repatriate, tells
about his difficult refugee days in collective camps, about
never ending conflict between Serbs and Croats, crimes in
II World War, about Serb exodus under Ustasa`s regime, about
most recent war in Croatia 1991-1995....
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
Children refugees peacking out of their
window...
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
Children refugee , with their house
pet in a "new" environment, back in the house that
their parents had to leave 10 years ago.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
Elder Serbian women preparing welcome
toast, hand made brandy "rakija", for other Serbs
refugees repatriates coming back to their village in Croatia.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
An elder Serb, refugee repatriate, is
steping on the ground of a village where he was born, first
time after 10 years since he left Croatia.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
Children in UNHCR refugee camp, waiting
for return to their homes in Croatia.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
Serbian boy in UNHCR camp for refugees
is playing with his pets, wild partridges.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
Serbian boy in UNHCR camp for refugees
is showing his pet, wild partridges.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
A girl in UNHCR refugee camp, plays
on the ruins of an old car.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
A Serb is reconstructing and rebuilding
his home, destroyed in the war in former Yugoslavia.
Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
Serbian women, refugee repatriate, after
10 years, again in her house in Croatia.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Croatia,
2003
Serbian women, refugee repatriate, after
10 years, again in her village in Croatia.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Kosovo,
Serbia , 2003
Serbs, refugees repatriates, back in
their village in Kosovo.
photo Andrija Ilic |
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Kosovo,
Serbia, , 2003
A Serbian woman, refugee repatriate,
in her renewed house in Kosovo. The process of refugees repatriation
is most difficult in Kosovo, from all ex Yugoslav republics.
Serbs in Kosovo dont have freedom of moving outside their
villages, they are isolated in enclaves in which they cant
have any jobs, they cant treat their land ....
photo Andrija Ilic |
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