Keraterm camp
Keraterm | |
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concentration camp | |
Bosnian Croats | |
Number of inmates | 1,000–1,500 |
Killed | 150[1] |
The Keraterm camp was a
The camp
The Keraterm camp was located on the site of a ceramics factory, just outside the city of Prijedor. According to reports, prisoners were kept in four halls, formerly used as storehouses at the ceramics factory. The Keraterm camp's prisoner population was all male. Most of the men at the camp were reported to be between the ages of 15 and 60. However, in mid-July 1992, approximately 12 to 15 Bosniak women were brought to Keraterm, raped, and transported to the Omarska camp. About 85% of all prisoners were Bosniaks while about 15% were Bosnian Croats.[3]
According to the indictment, the detainees were, among other things, subjected to physical violence, constant humiliation, degradation, inhumane conditions, and fear of death. Severe beatings were commonplace. All manner of weapons were used during these beatings, including wooden batons, metal rods, baseball bats, lengths of thick industrial cable that had metal balls affixed to the end, rifle butts, and knives. Killings, beatings, sexual assaults, and other cruel and humiliating actions were committed.[4]
War crime trials
The Republika Srpska officials responsible for running the camp have since been convicted for
See also
- Batković concentration camp
- Dretelj camp
- Čelebići prison camp
- Gabela camp
- Heliodrom camp
- Liplje camp
- Manjača camp
- Omarska camp
- Trnopolje camp
- Uzamnica camp
- Vilina Vlas
- Vojno camp
References
- ^ "Radovan Karadžić: Case Information Sheet" (PDF). International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. p. 2. Archived from the original on November 27, 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c "Final report of the United Nations Commission of Experts established pursuant to security council resolution 780 (1992)". United Nations - Security Council. 28 December 1994. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008.
- ^ "Analysis".
- ^ "ICTY - TPIY : Keraterm Camp case: Dragan Kolundzija will appear before a Trial Chamber on Monday 14 june 1999 in Courtroom III". icty.org.
- ^ a b "Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina". tuzilastvobih.gov.ba.
- ^ "Bosnian Serbs voice grievances". BBC News. 10 December 2004.
- ^ "ICTY - TPIY : Predrag Banović". icty.org.
- ^ "Judicial Supplement 29 - The Prosecutor v. Dusko Sikirica, Damir Dosen and Dragan Kolundzija - Case No. IT-95-8-S". icty.org.
- ^ "ICTY - TPIY : Dragan Kolundžija". icty.org.
External links
- Keraterm case
- Concentration camps in Bosnia
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