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Camp of the Forgotten - Inside Europe’s toughest detention camp by Heinz Tesarek
Pavshino – situated in the Ukraine, about 50 kilometres from the border to Slovakia – is a detention camp surrounded by an iron fence with watchtowers on each corner. Once during Communist reign it used to house missiles and was turned into a facility for illegal migrants in 2002 to cope with the rising influx of people being caught at the border to the EU.
The inmates of the camp have come a long way from countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, but also from former countries of the Soviet Union or some even from various African nations. During the day all of them are forced to linger in the muddy courtyard of the camp, since only the sick are allowed to stay inside the run-down-buildings. There, cells of about 15 square metres give room to twelve people. Bunk beds are crammed into the room, so that there remains hardly any space to move. During winter with temperatures far below cero, the heating in those rooms fuelled with wood is by all means insufficient.
