Batković camp
Coordinates: 44 ° 51 ′ 13 ″ N , 19 ° 11 ′ 47 ″ E
The Batković camp was an internment camp operated during the Bosnian War in Batković . Between April 1, 1992 and the end of January 1996, it served the Vojska Republike Srpske to intern mainly Bosniaks and Croats .
It was also used to ethnically cleanse the areas under Bosnian Serb control . The inmates were held in two large barns and tortured. They were not given enough food and water. They were forced to do forced labor, including forcing them to dig trenches, bring ammunition to the front, work in fields and factories, and bury the dead.
The prisoners were regularly beaten, sexually assaulted, and the prisoners were forced to beat one another. The prisoners suffered mental and physical torture .
Although it is believed that the camp was established between April 1 and June 1992, its existence was not confirmed by the foreign press until August 1992.
The Human Rights Watc h group Helsinki Watch visited the camp in August 1992 and twice allowed the prisoners to consult details of which but most were too scared to talk about what is happening.
consequences
In the indictment against the former Bosnian-Serbian General Ratko Mladić , prosecutors of the International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) alleged that at least 6 prisoners were murdered, many others raped or otherwise physically and mentally abused during the operation of the camp.
On March 2, 2012 the trial against four former Serbian camp guards (Đoko Pajić, Petar Dmitrović, Đorđe Krstić, Ljubomir Mišić) began in a court in Bijeljina. The four guards were charged with abusing and beating Bosniak prisoners. Dmitrović was identified by witnesses as the camp commandant, Pajić as his successor, Krstić as Pajić's successor, and Mišić as the guard commander. The process started two years later.
Another Serb, Gligor Begović, was arrested on April 28, 2014 in Rogatica for war crimes. His trial began on November 26, 2014. Begović. He was charged with crimes against Bosniaks in the Batković camp in 1992. Begović was also charged with participating in torture along with other guards, in which several inmates were killed. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison on December 9, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ FRIENDSHIPS FLOURISHED IN BATKOVIC PRISON CAMP . Sense Agency. April 3, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ^ The Serbian Project and Its Adversaries: A Strategy of War Crimes . Google Books. 2003. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ^ War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume 2 . Google Books. 1993. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ^ ICTY: Ratko Mladić Indictment . International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. October 27, 2011.
- ↑ Torture logora Batkovic prošlo 4,000 osoba . Oslobođenje. Archived from the original on April 18, 2015.
- ↑ Svjedok izjavio da je u logoru Sabirni centar konstantno bio tučen i maltretiran . Nezavisne. October 9, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ↑ Bosniak Prisoner 'Assaulted' at Bijeljina's Batkovic Camp . Balkan Insight. March 6, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ↑ Počelo suđenje za zločine u logoru Batković . DW.DE. March 2, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ↑ Šamaran bez razloga . Balkan Insight. March 6, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ↑ U Rogatici uhapšen Gligor Begović osumnjičen za ratne zločine u Bijeljini . Oslobođenje. April 28, 2014. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved on April 17, 2015.
- ↑ Gligor Begović uhapšen eg of the abovementioned zločina u Batkoviću . Klix. April 28, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ↑ Gligor Begovic . Trial. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ^ Bosnia Opens Batkovic Prisoner Abuse Trial . Balkan Insight. November 26, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- ^ Witness Describes Assault at the Batkovic Detention Camp at Begovic Trial . Justice Report. March 11, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2015.