Those who got top priority for early flights to Canada had been in the camps more than a month. Families with small children and frail elderly people went to the head of the list. Those catching planes from Macedonia and Albania for third countries could be considered the lucky ones. But there are still hundreds of thousands who may flee Kosovo in the weeks and months to come, and many more who will remain in the camps all this summer. The camps are barely a safe haven, more like a purgatory.
Refugees have to line up for food, water and phone calls.
They have to fight off heat and possibly disease. Perhaps worst of all, they have to live with their own nightmares and memories. The psychological trauma suffered by children living in Stenkovec. A day in the life of one of Macedonia's refugee camps. The CBC's Don Murray spent weeks reporting from the camps in Macedonia.