Camps of Death Film Premieres in Bosnia
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Camps of Death, a documentary directed by film-maker Avdo Huseinovic for the Association of Concentration-Camp Detainees in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was shown for the first time to a packed house at the Bosnian Culture Centre in Sarajevo on Monday.
The documentary shows 30 camps in which Bosniaks were detained from 1992 to 1995 in what Huseinovic described as a sort of a travelogue through Bosnia and Herzegovina, going from one camp to another.
This project will have its true meaning in ten or 15 years, but it is important to me that we speak about these crimes while witnesses are still alive Witnesses are dying, and many have taken their stories of suffering to the grave, the film-maker said.
Jasmin Meskovic, the president of Association of Concentration-Camp Detainees, said that the documentary would preserve the memories of those who were imprisoned during the conflict.
We cant erase the 30,000 deaths in the camps and all the torture. This is our contribution to history so that this never happens again and that people dont forget about what happened, Meskovic said.
The Association can be contacted via its website: www.logorasibih.ba.
