Kolubara: Last gravestone on Vreoci cemetary

This is the last gravestone left from what used to be a cemetery in Vreoci. The Electric Power Industry of Serbia conducted exhumation of the local cemetery to make way for coal extraction at the nearby Kolubara mine without the consent of the villagers. Vreoci cemetery lies on an estimated 50 million tonnes of lignite coal and its exhumation was a precondition for digging an additional 600 million tonnes of lignite lying under the Vreoci municipality. Local police had to protect the exhumation from upset villagers, who had demanded the EPS first give them a plan for collective resettlement before removing their dead.