KOSOVO. Mitrovica.29th January 2006..The "Alley of Health", constructed by the UN to encourage exercise in the local population lies a few hundred metres away from the Smelting plant at Zvecan which was closed by the UN in 2000 because of the high levels of pollution it was producing. The 'Alley' also lies a few hundred metres away from the slag heaps of toxic Lead waste that are believed to be the cause for the massive contamination of the Roma camps in Mitrovica and...
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KOSOVO. Mitrovica.29th January 2006..The "Alley of Health", constructed by the UN to encourage exercise in the local population lies a few hundred metres away from the Smelting plant at Zvecan which was closed by the UN in 2000 because of the high levels of pollution it was producing. The 'Alley' also lies a few hundred metres away from the slag heaps of toxic Lead waste that are believed to be the cause for the massive contamination of the Roma camps in Mitrovica and Zvecan..©Andrew Testa for the New York Times
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