The remnants of Kosovo's Trepča mining and smelting complex.
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A Roma girl stands near her home in the Chesmin Lug camp. Between 2005 and 2008, Zoran Savich, a pediatrician with the Health Center of Kosovo Mitrovica, saw more than 300 patients in Osterrode and Chesmin Lug. In that time, 77 people died of lead poisoning, many of them children. "I treated as many as I could but they were living in the same conditions and absorbing lead," Dr. Savich said. "When the treatments stopped, their levels went back up. It was useless."</p>")
NORTH MITROVICA, Kosovo | No one seems to care about the gypsies.
In 1999 following the NATO led bombing in the Kosovo region, the United Nations built resettlement camps for one of the wars overlooked people, the Roma.
NORTH MITROVICA, Kosovo — Displaced by conflict and stranded by bureaucratic inertia, dozens of Roma families remain on toxic land 10 years after they were relocated there by the United Nations fol
J. Malcolm Garcia, for the Pulitzer Center. Photos by Darren McCollester
J. Malcolm Garcia, for the Pulitzer Center. Photo by Darren McCollester
Report and photo by Darren McCollester, for the Pulitzer Center
Report and Photos by Darren McCollester, for the Pulitzer Center
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Darren McCollester is a former staff photographer at Getty Images now based freelance in Boston, Massachusetts. He has covered major events in the United States from post 9-11 to human rights issues...
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J. Malcolm Garcia has worked as a freelance journalist in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chad, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Honduras, Bolivia and Argentina. His work has been included in The Best American Travel...