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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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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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Photos of Living Skeletons in the Trnopolje Concentration Camp

The Trnopolje concentration camp was established by Bosnian Serb military and police authorities in the village of Trnopolje near the city of Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first months of the Bosnian Genocide. The camp kept a … 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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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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Keraterm Concentration Camp, Bosnia (Selected Photographs)

Bosnian Genocide has legal backing: In Prosecutor v Slobodan Milosevic, the International Criminal Tribunal rejected “motion for judgment of acquittal” and concluded that Genocide occurred in seven Bosnian municipalities, including Prijedor where Keraterm concentration camp was located. On 16 June … Continue reading

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31 May Marks White Armband Day Worldwide, the Prijedor Genocide

On 31 May 1992, the Bosnian Serb authorities in Prijedor, a town in north western Bosnia and Herzegovina, issued a decree for all non-Serbs to mark their houses with white flags or sheets and to wear a white armband if … 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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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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Will Mladic Live to See Bosnian Genocide Conviction?

Ratko Mladic is suffering from pneumonia, he is dehydrated, can’t drink any water, refuses to (or can’t) eat anything, and his weight has dropped to only 56kg (123 pounds), according to Banja Luka daily Nezavisne, citing information given by Mladic’s … 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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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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Photos of the 16th Srebrenica Genocide Anniversary

   

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Mladic: Bosnian Genocide Suspect Not Terminally Sick

Ratko Mladic is accused of orchestrating genocide in Prijedor, Bratunac, Srebrenica, and a number of other Bosniak districts. Although at his first appearance, Bosnian Genocide suspect Ratko Mladic called the charges against him “obnoxious” and told the judges that he … 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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Areas Where Bosnian Genocide Occurred Must Be Returned to Bosnian Government Control

Bosniaks Seeking More Land Under Plan By Alan Riding (N.Y. Times) Star-News, p.3A 1 September 1993. GENEVA — Bosniaks on Tuesday demanded more territory for their future republic as their condition for accepting a plan to end the Bosnian war, … 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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Omarska, post-World War II concentration camp in Bosnia

By Peter W. Van Arsdale Today there are few visible signs that one of the world’s most ominous post-World War II concentration camps once existed in the hills east of Prijedor. A mid-sized industrial town, Prijedor is located in the … 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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Bosnian Mine near Prijedor May Contain 8,000 Victims

The Durant Daily Democrat, p. Front, Section 1, cont. p.7 11 January 1996. NEW YORK (AP) — As many as 8,000 victims of a Bosnian Serb campaign of ethnic cleansing may be buried in an iron mine in the Bosnian … 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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