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In 1992 the concentration and rape camp at the Vilina Vlas hotel was one of the Višegrad area's main detention facilities. [2] It was established by the Uzice Corps at the end of April 1992 and played a significant role in the ethnic cleansing of the area's non-Serb population. [2] The hotel served as a camp "brothel". [2]
According to the 1991 Yugoslav census, Višegrad municipality had a population of about 21,000 before the conflict, 63% Bosniak and 33% Bosnian Serb. [9] Every day Bosniak men, women and children were killed on the Drina river bridge and their bodies were dumped into the river.
Among the victims were 102 children and 256 women. More than 30,000 non-Serbs were detained in at least one of the concentration camps Trnopolje, Omarska and Keraterm. The largest mass grave found in Northern Bosnia to date is that of Tomasica where at least 360 bodies of non-Serb civilian casualties were buried. Zvornik massacre: 1992–1995 ...
The 1992 Yugoslav campaign in Bosnia was a series of engagements between the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and the Territorial Defence Force of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (TO BiH) and then the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) during the Bosnian war. The campaign effectively started on 3 April and ended 19 May.
Yugoslav Wars; Part of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the post–Cold War era: Clockwise from top-left: Officers of the Slovenian National Police Force escort captured soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army back to their unit during the Slovenian War of Independence; a destroyed M-84 tank during the Battle of Vukovar; anti-tank missile installations of the Serbia-controlled Yugoslav People's ...
Pages in category "Women in the Yugoslav Partisans" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the UN established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the Yugoslav Wars, and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal was an ad hoc court located in The Hague, Netherlands. It handed down some 20 sentences in relation to crimes perpetrated in the ...
Omarska is a predominantly Serbian village in northwestern Bosnia, near the town of Prijedor. [8] The camp in the village existed from about 25 May to about 21 August 1992, when the Army of Republika Srpska and police unlawfully segregated, detained and confined some of more than 7,000 Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats captured in Prijedor.