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The 560 Roma accommodated in three UN refugee camps in Kosovo are threatened by lethal heavy metal poisoning. An investigation team of the Society for Threatened Peoples of the GfbV – with a renowned environmental medical specialist and a cameraman – took up this dreadful suspicion and has just returned from Kosovo.
The results of the analysis of 66 hair and blood samples of refugees has now been completed. They reinforce the severe charges of the GfbV against the UNMIK, the „temporary administration mission in Kosovo”, which is responsible for the three camps of Zitkovac, Cesmin Lug and Kablare, which are contaminated above all with lead. The UNMIK has for years ignored – in spite of urgent warnings and appeals from the GfbV – the extreme danger to health for the Roma and their children. The camps were set up immediately after the Nato intervention in 1999 right next to the deposit heaps of a mine.
The GfbV is also afraid that the UNMIK will not use the 500,000 Euro recently made available by Germany for bringing the Roma to safety, but will put these funds into the senseless moving of the refugees into a former base of the French Kfor, a very short distance away, and therefore also contaminated to almost the same extent by the environmental poisons.
At a press conference of the GfbV the renowned medical environment specialist Dr Klaus-Dietrich Runow will present the findings of the analysis of hair and blood samples of the Roma refugees and samples of the soil and water in the immediate vicinity. We extend a warm welcome to you and your colleagues from the various resorts at „Bild”:
PRESS CONFERENCE
On Tuesday, 8th November 2005 at 10.30 in the Hotel Albrechtshof, Albrechtstr. 8, 101117 Berlin (Mitte) with
– Dr Klaus-Dietrich Runow, Medical Superintendent of the Institute for Functional Medicine and Environmental Medicine IFU (Bad Emstal)
– Tilman Zülch, GfbV General Secretary
– Paul Polansky, head of the GfbV Kosovo team
Miradija and Argentina Gidzic of the GfbV Kosovo team will also be there to answer questions as well as the GfbV investigation team with Jasna Causevic (GfbV southeast Europe expert), Francoise Geiger (Variety of Cultures Foundation) and Frank Witte (GfbV campaigns secretary).
TV EDITORS please note: The GfbV investigation team filmed and photographed the work of Dr Klaus-Dietrich Runow in the refugee camps and thus documented the depressing situation of the Roma. Those interested are welcome to check through our raw material at their leisure. We shall be happy to provide you with photos for publication.
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