Witness History: Witness Archive 2016 - Poisoned in Kosovo

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In 1999, Kosovo Roma Gypsies escaped ethnic violence but ended up in a refugee camp next to a disused lead processing plant. It took years of campaigning, and dozens of deaths, before they were rehoused. Dina Newman reports.

Photo: Four year old Jenita Mehmeti (bottom row centre), the first official victim of lead poisoning. Credit: Paul Polansky archive

Published on Monday, 7th March 2016.

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