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Massacre: 1200 Bosniak Civilians Killed in Serbian Attack on Kozarac

Witness: Serb army reduced the number of killed Bosniaks in the attack on Kozarac ten times. The Institute for War Crimes in Sarajevo had established that 2,000 Bosniak civilians were killed in the wider region around Kozarac, of which 800 … Continue reading

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Refugees Describe Horrors of Serb ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

The Spokesman-Review, p.A4 Washington Post 7 August 1992. ZENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The bus bringing Atif Ahmedzehajic to the Serb-run detention camp at Omarska had just begun disgorging Bosniak prisoners when the guards began shooting. “Right there before my eyes, they … Continue reading

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Kozarac (Prijedor): 111 Bosnian Genocide Victims Laid to Rest

Families of 111 victims of the 1992-95 Bosnian Genocide  have honoured their loved ones in a mass funeral ceremony in northwestern Bosnia. The victims’ bodies were found over the past few years in dozens of mass graves scattered around the … Continue reading

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Serbian Civilians Deny Atrocities Occurred during Bosnian Genocide

A 1994 report by the United Nations found that the Serbs operated 962 prison camps where 500,000 people were imprisoned. The United Nations documented 50,000 cases of torture and 3,000 cases of rape. At the time of the report, 187 … Continue reading

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Bosnian Muslim Concentration Camp Survivors Recall 620 Dead Bodies, Repeated Rapes of Women

In Trnopolje, he could see from his cell window women prisoners being repeatedly raped. One day, a group from the camp was sent to gather corpses of victims from artillery shelling.” We found 620 bodies along fields, houses, roads, and … Continue reading

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Another View of the Concentration Camps in the Bosnian Genocide

The following images of Serb-run concentration camps near Prijedor in north-west Bosnia were taken from the archive of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the Hague. Here is a better quality of this image from the … Continue reading

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Concentration Camp Survivors in Bosnia Detail Executions

Reading Eagle, page A16. 5 August 1992. By Ron Gutman ZAGREB, Croatia – Serbian guards at the Omarska concentration camp in Bosnia daily executed Bosniak and Croat prisoners from the thousands being held in at least three locations in the … Continue reading

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Aftermath of the Bosnian Genocide: In the Land of War Criminals

Photo Credits: 21-year-old Edna Dautovic was one of many Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) women who were tortured, brutally raped, and then killed by the Serbs in the Omarska concentration camp near Prijedor. Pre-war photo of Edna Dautovic courtesy of the International … Continue reading

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Kozarac massacre, Serbs Systematically Kill Thousands of Bosniak Civilians

The Deadly `Ethnic Cleansing’ Of A Bosnian Muslim City By Mary Battiata 2 November 1992. KOZARAC, Bosnia – At a bend in the road just past the Kozarac town sawmill, a young Serb named Goran Borovice stood on a second-story … Continue reading

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