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Bosniak Woman Key to Classifying Rape Under International Law as a War Crime

By AIDA CERKEZ (AP) PRIJEDOR, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA — There were days when she prayed for a bullet to end her suffering. When she thought she was dying of a heart attack, she whispered “Thank you God.” A young judge, Nusreta Sivac … Continue reading

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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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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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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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Witness Nusret Šivac, Omarska Concentration Camp Survivor

Background: For Omarska Concentration Camp, see: Photojournalism – Omarska and $5 Billion in Damages Awarded to Bosnian Genocide Survivors. Former police officer and cameraman from Prijedor Nusret Sivac testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic about the ‘Wailing Wall’ in … Continue reading

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Omarska: Where Many Prayed to Die

Reprint courtesy: Daniel Toljaga Witnesses recount torture in the Omarska concentration camp: “Men [were] tied together around a truck tire. The tire was set aflame, and the men burned to death. Another man had nails driven through his hands, shoulders, … 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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White House Condemns Serb Terror, More Than 1000 Bosniaks and Croats Slaughtered

Toledo Blade, p. Front, 4. 4 August 1992. WASHINGTON — The Bush administration says it has confirmed reports that Croats and Bosniaks are being tortured and killed in Serb “detention camps” in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia. But administration … 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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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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Bosniak Man Begged for Dignified Death at Omarska Camp

Serb Torture Center Depicted Toledo Blade, p.2 25 May 1996. THE HAGUE (AP) — A Bosniak described yesterday how he pleaded with a Serb interrogators for a dignified death after seeing another prisoner’s brains splattered across a cell wall. Mevludin … 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 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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Tadic Case: Bosniak Rape Victim Refuses to Testify

Witness Balks in War Crimes Trial The Post and Courier, p.12A 4 May 1996. THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — War crimes prosecutors have asked an international tribunal to drop a rape charge against a Bosnian Serb accused of murdering more … Continue reading

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Mass Grave in Bosnian Cave, 11.500 Bosniaks and Croats Missing from Omarska Concentration Camp

Mass Grave in Bosnian Cave Allegheny Times, p. Front By Sandy MacIntyre Associated Press Writer 21 March 1996. LUSCI PALANKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A suspected mass grave has been found in a deep cave in northwestern Bosnia near one of … 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: Omarska 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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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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Serbs Killed 456 Bosniak Civilians in Kevljani Massacre

The small village of Kevljani witnessed horrendous acts of massacres during the Bosnian genocide. The village is within walking distance of Omarska mine where, in 1992, an estimated 6,000 local Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys, together with women, were … Continue reading

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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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