Magazin:

Western Macedonia: First Stop of the Sex Slaves

MCOnline Redakcija
01/07/2004
"Mozhe vodka" ["may I vodka"], a girl around 17 asks in broken Macedonian, perching herself on the edge of our table. Then she nods to her colleague at the bar. We are the only clients. Her name is Deya... by Yovo Nikolov (Capital, Bulgaria)

Arizona's Number One Business

MCOnline Redakcija
20/06/2004
The billboard in downtown Brcko looks as if it is advertising a shopping mall in California.

Showdown at Arizona market

MCOnline Redakcija
20/06/2004
It is Sunday afternoon at the “Faraon” restaurant, a slightly more substantial wooden building than the rest of the 3,000 wooden kiosks that make up the Brcko District’s sprawling Arizona Market in northeast Bosnia. But just like the rest of them the Faraon has a parking lot for a toilet.

Crimes Without Victims: The Trafficked Women’s Story

MCOnline Redakcija
20/06/2004
Like many of the people who indirectly gain from one of Arizona Market’s traditional businesses, Gordana, owner of the aptly named Koridor restaurant, does not see any victims at her tables when the prostitutes from Eastern Europe totter in the door on high heels.

Investigative Reporting Project: Showdown at Arizona market

MCOnline
20/06/2004

To produce this series, an all-Balkan team of seven journalists and a photo-journalist from Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia went in spring 2002 to the infamous Arizona Market in the Brcko District of northeast Bosnia Herzegovina to investigate the coming showdown between its western style future and its lawless past.

Reporter’s Notebook: At a Night Bar Men in black on white bread

Business unusual in the Brcko District

Arizona Market’s Native Son

An Ex-Patriot Returns With A Vision

A Long Way Home: Odyssey in the Bosnian Sex Slave Network

Pages