[RiversEdge]

The Omarska camp was a concentration camp run by Bosnian Serb forces in the mining town of Omarska, near Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, set up for Bosniak and Croat men and women during the Prijedor massacre.

Functioning in the first months of the Bosnian War in 1992, it was one of 677 alleged detention centers and camps set up throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war.

While nominally an "investigation center" or "assembly point" for members of the Bosniak and Croatian population, Human Rights Watch classified Omarska as a concentration camp.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, located in The Hague, found several individuals guilty of crimes against humanity perpetrated at Omarska.

Murder, torture, rape, and abuse of prisoners was common.

Around 6,000 Bosniaks and Croats, mainly men, were held at the camp for about five months in the spring and summer of 1992.

Hundreds died of starvation, punishment, beatings, ill-treatment and executions.

[kellyhound]

With many un-arrested alleged war criminals still living in and around the small town of Prijedor, it's not uncommon for camp survivors to come face to face with those who once abused them.

"The very establishment of the tribunal in The Hague was just a naive story for the gullible that justice would finally be done. Now we all know it hasn't," says a survivor. "I used to see the same people in the streets of Prijedor who wore uniforms in Omarska."

In the tribunal process "a sentence for genocide was less than for other serious violations of international humanitarian law," says a survivor.

"There is a denial and negation of what happened. Even ordinary people here deny it, let alone the government structures. There's no condemnation at all."

Two survivors have run into their former abusers: "I've met guards, investigators and interrogators. None of them have been held accountable. I just raise my head proudly and look them in the eyes."

[švabo]

dead muslims.

[sweep100]

Nice Volvo F88 in the background.

[BrianBear5150]

Looks like a Clinton dinner party!

[reinhard]

Muslims, so fast to cry a fucking river when they do not get the drop on murdering innocent women, children and old men. Fuckem'

[Padraig Flaherty]

[K53]

Bosnia must have been hell

[benado]

Originally Posted by reinhard ↗

Muslims, so fast to cry a fucking river when they do not get the drop on murdering innocent women, children and old men. Fuckem'

You do realize they were Serbs

[giterdone246]

Can you send me the name of the video for the Bosnia torture chamber killed with hammers? It looks like a good documentary. I can't seem to find that video.