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Poisoned in Kosovo
How Kosovo Roma Gypsies, who had escaped ethnic violence in 1999, ended up in a refugee camp next to a disused lead processing plant. It took years of campaigning to rehouse them.
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
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