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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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Inside & Outside View of the Manjaca Concentration Camp (Select Photographs)

Approximately 2000 Bosniaks were killed or missing in connection with the atrocities and at Manjaca concentration camp. The camp was founded by the Yugoslav National Army (JNA) and the Bosnian Serb authorities and was surrounded by  barbed wire and explosives (mines) … Continue reading

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Elie Wiesel: Bosnia Not Auschwitz, but Genocide

INTRO: In November 1992, concerned about the continuous reports about mass killing emanating from the former Yugoslavia, Elie Wiesel (b. 1928), survivor of the Holocaust/Shoah, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and committed human rights activist, traveled to Belgrade, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, … Continue reading

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COURT: Death Sentence in Serb-run Concentration Camps

Dr Idriz Merdzanic from Prijedor says that after Radovan Karadzic invited foreign journalists to visit the prison camps to see that they in fact didn’t exist, he issued an order that was a ‘death sentence’ for hundreds of prisoners in … Continue reading

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Rape of Bosnia, A Report From a Concentration Camp

Help Us, Say Women of Bosnia New Straits Times 4 September 1992. pages 21 and 27. Bosniak women told a Press conference in London recently about the rape, torture and other atrocities they suffered at the hands of their Serbian … 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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Bosnian Muslim War Prisoners Slowly Starving in Stalls Made for Animals

By David Zucchino Knight-Rider Newspapers 8 September 1992. MANJACA PRISON, Bosnia-Herzegovina — It is only 10 a.m., but already the colonel is ready for his brandy. Visitors have arrived. The colonel straightens the creases in his army fatigues and offers … Continue reading

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Dictionary of Genocide (2008), the Bosnian Genocide

Dictionary of Genocide, Volume Two: M-Z (2008) By Samuel Totten, Paul R. Bartrop, Steven L. Jacobs (Purchase info: Hardcover $199.95, Greenwood Press) Page 471. Entry: Wiesel, Elie and the Bosnian Genocide. In November 1992, concerned about the continuous reports about mass … 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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Serbs Hide Concentration Camp Atrocities by Shifting Near Dead Prisoners to Other Camps to Avoid Detection

Serb forces were shifting thousands of starving and mutilated prisoners between detainment camps to hide atrocities from International Red Cross inspectors. U.N. Means Business on Bosnia The Post and Courier, p.16A 14 August 1992. As expected, the U.N. Security Council … Continue reading

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Senate Report Provides Details of 'Ethnic Cleansing' in Bosnia

Serbs have moved beaten and starved prisoners out of the notorious camps before media visits. The Milwaukee Journal, p.A6 19 August 1992. From Journal wire services Washington, D.C. — The campaign mounted by Serbian militias to drive Muslims [Bosniaks] from … 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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Photojournalism: Manjaca Concentration Camp in Bosnia

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Death Whispers at Omarska concentration camp in Bosnia

Death Whispers: Frightened Bosnian Muslim War Prisoners Voice Horror Behind the Pictures By Peter Maass The Bulletin 16 August 1992. OMARSKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — When the camp guards looked in another direction, the prisoners at the Serb-run detention camp here broke … Continue reading

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Photo Diary: Don't Forget the Bosnian Genocide

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The Politics of 'Neutrality' in the Bosnian Genocide (1992)

INTRODUCTION: The Bosnian Genocide is the event referring to brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing of at least 500,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) coupled with the killings of 65,000 to 75,000 Bosniaks during the 1992-95 war of Serbian aggression. There are three legally validated … Continue reading

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The 1992 Hambarine Massacre near Prijedor, Bosnia

The attacks on the Bosnian Muslim village of Hambarine in May of 1992, coupled with the arrests, detention, rapes, and ethnic cleansing and massacres of civilians in the Prijedor, resulted in virtually a complete elimination of Bosnian Muslims from the … Continue reading

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Court Ruling: Serbs Must Pay $5 Billion in Damages to Bosnian Genocide Victims

U.S. Jury Returns $4.5 Billion Verdict Against Former Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic. Will Republika Srpska — a province in Bosnia-Herzegovina created as a result of ethnic cleansing and genocide — end up paying the bill, since Karadzic is broke? … Continue reading

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JERUSALEM POST: A look into Bosnian Genocide’s notorious concentration camp

  First, Bosniaks and Croats had to wear white bands on their arms By Tovah Lazaroff, JPost Correspondent in Geneva Originally published: Apr 26, 2009. Republished with Permission. JERUSALEM POST – As an inmate in the Omarska concentration camp in … Continue reading

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Israel Offers Help to Bosnian Muslims

Bush demands inspections; Israel offers aid 8 August 1992. WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush vowed Friday that he would not rest until Serbian-run prison camps were opened to outside inspection, but he stopped short of threatening to bomb Serbian positions … Continue reading

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