Detention Camps Archives

Former Bosnian Army officer Enver Buza went on trial over the killings of 27 Croat civilians - the youngest aged ten - by his troops in the Prozor municipality in 1993. Buza, the former commander of Bosnian Army’s Prozor Independent Battalion, went on trial on Monday at the state court in Sarajevo.

At the trial of five former policemen and an ex-soldier for crimes against Bosniaks and Croats in the Kotor-Varos area, a prosecution witness said he was beaten up by one of the defendants.

A prosecution witness told the war crimes trial of former Serb special policeman Slobodan Karagic that the defendant raped her in Doboj when she was 15. The protected prosecution witness codenamed K-1 told the court in Sarajevo on Monday that the defendant Slobodan Karagic, a former commander of the Red Berets special police unit, raped her in Doboj in 1992.

A prosecution witness told the trial of six former Bosnian Serb fighters that he saw the beating and killing of detained Bosniaks and Croat civilians in Kotor-Varos in 1992. Witness Sefik Varosic told the state court in Sarajevo on Friday that he was captured by soldiers in the village of Vrbanjica in the Kotor-Varos municipality on June 25, 1992, detained in terrible conditions and beaten.

The Bosnian prosecution filed an indictment against 13 people, charging them with crimes against humanity in the Bosanski Novi municipality in 1992. The Bosnian prosecution filed an indictment on Friday against Ljuban Babic, Ranko Balaban, Rajko Karalica, Milenko Brcin, Mirko Odzic, Milenko Babic, Ostoja Balaban, Ratko Goronja, Nikola Reljic, Dragan and Ranko Baltic, Miroslav Kapetanovic and Ranko Grab, charging them with participating in the murders and torture of civilians from the villages of Ekici and Alici in the Bosanski Novi municipality in June 1992.

A former detainee told the trial of four Bosnian Serbs accused of beating prisoners in Bileca in 1992 that he was hit almost every day during his time in custody.

Monika Ilic born Simonovic was handed over to the police of the Brcko District, where she went through arrest and her identity was established, after which the Prosecution would interrogate her.

Hundreds of local residents paid their respects in Kozarac near Prijedor as the remains of eight people killed by Bosnian Serb forces during wartime were laid to rest over 20 years after they died.

A prosecution witness recalled how he and other prisoners were regularly beaten in cells behind the court in Kotor-Varos after being captured by Bosnian Serb troops in 1992. Prosecution witness Halil Cirkic told the state court on Friday said that he and a few other men, including some minors, were beaten up in a school building in Vrbanjci after he was captured by the Bosnian Serb Army in the village of Cirkino Brdo in the Kotor-Varos municipality on September 28, 1992.

Former Bosnian Serb policemen Goran Vujovic, Miroslav Duka and Zeljko Ilic were sentenced to a total of 23 years in prison for crimes against humanity in Bileca in 1992. The Bosnian state court found Vujovic, Duka and Ilic guilty on Friday of taking part in the abuse and torture of Bosniak and Croat civilians at the police station in Bileca and in a student dormitory in the southern town.

Detention Camps

Bosnian Army Officer Tried for Prozor Killings

Detainee Recalls Beating by Kotor-Varos Policeman

Victim Accuses Policeman of Rape in Doboj

Witness Recalls Beatings, Murders of Kotor-Varos Prisoners

13 Indicted for Bosanski Novi Murders and Torture

Ex-Prisoner Recalls Regular Beatings in Bileca

Local Justice – Brcko: Interrogation of Monika Simonovic’s soon

Eight Bosnian War Victims Buried in Prijedor

Prisoners ‘Beaten Every Day’ at Kotor-Varos Prison

Bosnian Serb Ex-Policemen Jailed for Abuse and Torture

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