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Omarska Concentration Camp, Bosnia (Selected Photographs)

The Omarska was another Serb-run concentration camp near Prijedor, one of seven municipalities where genocide had taken place between 1992-1995 Bosnian war, according to the International Criminal Tribunal at the Hague. Thousands of Bosniak civilians were detained, tortured, raped, and … Continue reading

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Serbs Sentenced to 69 Years in Prison for Mass Killing of 200 at Koricanske Cliff Massacre

Sasa Zecevic, Radoslav Knezevic and Marinko Ljepoja were found guilty of committing crimes against humanity for taking part in the killings of Bosniaks and Croats from the northwestern town of Prijedor, judge Vesna Jesenkovic said. The mass killings on Mount … Continue reading

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Victims of Mass Rape in the Bosnian Genocide, Photos and Testimonies

Author: Nina Berman (re-published with permission from the author) I’ve been scanning old pictures from late 1992 and early 1993 of women and girls who were raped in the Bosnian war which means they were personally, brutally, and sadistically attacked, … Continue reading

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Hard Time in Serb-run Concentration Camps in Bosnia

Hard Time in Serb-run Concentration Camps in Bosnia CRIME CONTINUED (To mark August 30, International Day of the Disappeared) By Irena Antic Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia Helsinki Charter No. 153-154. 

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PETITION: ArcelorMittal Purchased Omarska Concentration Camp, Blocked Survivors from Erecting Memorial

As ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel company, invests 19.2 million pounds of steel to construct a monument marking London’s Olympic Games, they are refusing to memorialize a former concentration camp in Bosnia they own today. Not only is ArcelorMittal unwilling … Continue reading

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A Book on Genocide by Jewish and Bosnian Muslim Academics

“Wounded I Am More Awake” is a book written by Prof. Julia Lieblich (Jewish) and Prof. Esad Boskailo (Bosnian Muslim). “I have just turned the last page. I feel drained, enraged, despairing for humanity — but also enriched, confirmed, and, … Continue reading

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Bosnian Police Arrests Serb Woman Known as “Female Monster”

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A Bosnian Serb woman suspected of such brutal crimes against non-Serbs during the 1990s that her victims nicknamed her the “Female Monster” has been detained, police and local media reported Wednesday. It was a rare … Continue reading

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Concentration Camps – by Ed Vulliamy

By Ed Vulliamy The laws governing warfare and conflict make no reference to concentration camps. But for more than a century, concentration camps have been a venue for wholesale war crimes and the symbol of the worst abuses against civilians … Continue reading

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Bosniak Survivor of Vlasenica Massacre Remembers How Serbs Killed His Family

My Story: Crimes in the Eyes of a Boy By: Mirna Buljugic BIRN — A twelve year-old boy from Vlasenica fled his home in 1992, while his father and young brother were killed. Fearing for his life, he recognized the … Continue reading

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As a Jew, I’m Outraged at What is Happening to Bosnian Muslims

Write, Call Milosevic: Stop It By Stuart Bykofsky Lakeland Ledger, p.9A 28 January 1993. In 1964, Kitty Genovese was slashed to death as 38 New Yorkers watched. No one called police. In 1992, Bosnia-Herzegovina was cut apart as the whole … Continue reading

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Taming the Bullies of Bosnia

By Roger Cohen 17 December 1995. THE HELICOPTER LANDS near the summit of Mount Igman, just outside Sarajevo. It’s a cool morning with low clouds, the rain has just stopped and the city, encircled by the Serbs as it has … Continue reading

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Evidence, Serbia Operated Concentration Camps in Bosnia

Serb Says Files Link Milosevic to War Crimes in Bosnia By Roger Cohen The New York Times 13 April 1995. As Western governments seek to turn President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia into a peacemaker, a former senior member of the … Continue reading

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U.N. Tribunal Charges Serb with Genocide

By Roger Cohen The New York Times Lakeland Ledger, p.3A 14 February 1995. PARIS — The U.N. tribunal investigating war crimes in the Balkans charged the Serbian commander of a concentration camp in Bosnia with genocide on Monday, using a … Continue reading

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Bosnian Genocide in the Village of Kozarac (Prijedor)

A Bosniak girl stands in front of a monument with the names of 1,226 victims of the Prijedor Genocide killed in the summer of 1992 at the beginning of the Bosnian war, during a ceremony to mark the 19th anniversary … Continue reading

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War in Bosnia was Clearly a Genocide

Reprinted from Tim Clancy’s “Bosnia & Herzegovina” p.37-42 Independence and War: ’Freedom’ for Bosnia and Herzegovina was greeted with a genocide that had not been seen on European soil since the attempted extermination of the Jews in World War II. … Continue reading

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Serbian Terror in Bosnia is an International Crime

Sarajevo Residents Claims Advances Against Serbians Surrounding City; Some American lawmakers call for use of force Lawrence Journal-World, p.6C 5 August 1992. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosniak-led forces claimed further advances today in their offensive to break the Serb stranglehold … Continue reading

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Bosniak Doctor Urges U.S. Action Against Serbs

By Bruce Japsen The Telegraph Herald, p.3A 26 March 1993. The genocide during World War II wasn’t supposed to happen again. But it is. And the United States must encourage global action against Bosnian Serbs who continue the atrocities of … Continue reading

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CIA Report: Serbs Responsible for At Least 90 Percent of All War Crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bosniak civilians in Serb-run Trnopolje concentration camp, Aug. 1992. Photographer: RON HAVIV, Blood & Honey To those who think the parties are equally guilty, this report is pretty devastating. Serbs carried out at least 90 percent of the ethnic cleansings in … Continue reading

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Bosnian Genocide: Unseen Brutality Since Nazi-era

Serbian paramilitaries kick and kill Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) civilians on the streets of Bijeljina on 31 March 1992, the first day of the Bosnian Genocide. Photographer: Ron Haviv By Daniel Koffman Excerpt from “This Time we Knew: Western Responses to … Continue reading

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Bosnian Women Seek Justice as War Crime Victims of Rape

Bosnian Women Seek Justice as War Crime Victims The Daily Union, p.7 26 February 1997. By David Bauder NEW YORK (AP) — After what they had been through, Jadranka Cigelj [Bosnian Croat woman] and Nusreta Sivac [Bosniak woman] weren’t about … Continue reading

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Serbs Forced Bosniak Boy to Have Sex With Dead Mother

Witness Provides Gory Testimony on Bosnian Camp Reading Eagle, p.B8 22 June 1996. Bosniak survivor of Serb prison camp tells U.N. war crimes trial how drunken Serb soldier killed young man after ordering him to have sex with his dead … Continue reading

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At least 75,000 Bosniaks Held in Serb-run Detention Camps, 1.7 Million at Risk of Starvation

Many more Bosnians Reported in Prison Camps The Milwaukee Journal, p.A3 16 December 1992. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Serbian forces are holding at least 75,000 Bosnian Muslims as prisoners in 50 detention camps, far more than official estimates of 10,000 according … Continue reading

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"Never Again" Applies to Bosnia, Too

The Jewish Post & News, p.4 12 August 1992. Never again! That’s the expression Jewish Holocaust survivors and the rest of world Jewry use when referring to the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany. Never again should anyone stand by, shrug … Continue reading

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