How Sandzak has been through the valley of hunger Belgrade, New Pazar - The team of "Reaction" trying to figure out how the region has become a valley Sandžak hunger, and the wealthy city of New Pazar.
Sandžak in the past 20 years have fallen all the giants of industry, tens of thousands. people lost their jobs, light textile industry is dying, while the booming work in black, gray, drug trafficking and border crime.
As a result of disintegration of Yugoslavia and the secession of the former SFRY, crowned with the independence of Montenegro, Sandzak became the border region.
region is located adjacent to Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo's administrative boundary.
Sandzak This position makes an ideal region for the development of smuggling and crime of enormous dimensions.
Daily passes through Sandzak goods from Turkey and Asia, which is a legal way could never cross any border.
"Now, as a frontier area, you are exposed to risks associated with smuggling and other crimes. The latter, are strongly associated with heroin and other drugs, " Camil says Hubić, president of the district court in New Pazarze.
"They have a right to state that large quantities of drugs pass through the area was controlled by nowopazarską command, but I must also tell you that this command is the first front line and therefore are exposed to the most severe blows," says the chief of police in New Pazarze.
also smuggled weapons, textiles and foodstuffs, medicines and petroleum products.
Most merchandise is smuggled from Montenegro and Kosovo.
While some people enriched during the war through various criminal activities in Sandžak many lives on the edge of poverty.
business bankruptcies have led to massive unemployment.
Todorowić Dejan told us of what is alive after having worked 20 years in business, "Vojin Popović:
" Rozwożę bread. I have been a painter signs a craftsman, and even a bit of an artist. It is difficult for me, off and on it. "He said.
A few years ago, was a famous Serbian Pazar shopping center industry. For example, between mid- 90s produced here 20 miles. pairs of jeans per year.
Currently, most private sewing room was closed.
"We have a real recession, the textile industry. Of these 20 miles. pairs of jeans manufactured in the mid-1994, today we have not even a million a year. With 15 thousand. employees was 1,200 people. "said Bisera Hećeragić of the European Movement in Serbia.
Journalists' reactions, "trying to figure out who is responsible for the collapse of industry, unemployment and poverty, which have been condemned thousands of people from that region. Why
State sandżackim allows small companies to the informal economy and the fact that illegal workers are employed year and traded goods with smuggling?
Does the government is able to effectively fight drug trafficking and smuggling in Sandžak?
What benefits will flow to the Sandzak of the Law on Regional Development?
program Sandžačka hronika "to watch on blip.tv:
http://www.blip.tv/file/2686546/ Translated from B92.net
