Camp Gabela
Coordinates: 43 ° 6 ′ 42 ″ N , 17 ° 42 ′ 19 ″ E
The Gabela camp was an internment camp operated during the Bosnian War in Čapljina . It was used by the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) to intern mainly Bosniaks and Serbs .
history
The camp consisted of the detention facilities and an ammunition store. External observers were only allowed to visit Gabela in August 1993. At that time, the International Committee of the Red Cross registered 1,100 inmates. The detention facilities consisted of four former ammunition depots of the Yugoslav People's Army , they were marked with 0, 1, 2 and 3, and there were also three isolation cells . The size of the barrack was 200 square meters and up to 500 people were detained at a time. The inmates were exhausted from hunger and thirst and were tortured . Ten liters of water were provided for every 500 people per day, and many drank urine to quench their thirst. The inmates had to exercise their bowel movements in the hangars. They were forced to sing Croatian nationalist songs and listen to lectures on how correct Croatian politics were. Immediately after being interned in the camp, inmates were subjected to particularly severe forms of torture. They were ordered to lie on their stomach and then brutally beaten on the back and head. Some had their fingers broken by a kind of thumbscrew . Bosnian prisoners lived in constant fear of physical and psychological abuse, they were often humiliated in various ways, food was scarce and there were no facilities for personal hygiene. Many inmates reportedly suffered from malnutrition. The daily meal consisted of a small portion of rice, beans, macaroni soup, and bread. The prisoners received 650 grams of bread, which was shared by 16 prisoners. In some cases, guards withheld food and water for inmates in retaliation for military setbacks by the HVO
Guard Boko Previ killed Bosnian inmate Mustafa Obradovi in front of Hangar No. 1, in the presence of a large number of inmates, after discovering a piece of bread that was smuggled into prison .
The Swedish mercenary, convicted war criminal and later bank robber and police murderer Jackie Arklöv , was voluntarily stationed as a guard at the camp, where he also tortured prisoners.
Women were reportedly locked in an overheated metal shed that was a former ammunition dump in an abandoned JNA barracks outside Capljina. The camp was allegedly headed by a major of the Croatian Defense Association of the Right Party (HOS) . Another report found that a former JNA ammunition dump in Gabela, south of Capljina, was one of the main detention centers in Capljina.
consequences
After charges were brought against the former commandant of the Gabela camp, Boško Previšić , he became a refugee from the judiciary.
In 1993, his deputy Nikola Andrun was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment by the Sarajevo State Court for crimes against civilians in Gabela.
Former mercenary and neo-Nazi and convicted murderer Jackie Arklöv , who was stationed as a guard in the camp, tried before a Swedish court. The judges ruled and the court ruled on December 18, 2006 that Arklöv was guilty of the wrongful detention, torture and assault of 11 Bosnian Muslim prisoners of war and civilians, ethnic cleansing, looting and arbitrary detention of people. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to pay 11 victims between 70,000 and 425,000 kroner (7,700 to 47,000 euros) in pain and suffering.
Individual evidence
- ^ Judgment - Volume 5 of 6 . In: Prlić et al. (IT-04-74) . ICTY. May 29, 2013.
- ↑ a b CrimesSt . Archived from the original on January 9, 2009. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Final report of the United Nations Commission of Experts established pursuant to security council resolution 780 (1992) . In: University of West England, Bristol, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences / United Nations . May 27, 1994. Archived from the original on December 11, 2007.
- ↑ Helsinki Watch, Abuses Continue in the Former Yugoslavia: Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume 5, Issue 11, July 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 35944; Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, Fourth Periodic Report on the Situation of Human Rights in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia (6 September 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 35734.
- ^ Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, Fourth Periodic Report on the Situation of Human Rights in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia (6 September 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 35735.
- ↑ http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=176020 ( page no longer available )
- ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on October 5, 2008. Retrieved February 23, 2009.
- ↑ http://www.sense-agency.com/en/stream.php?sta=3&pid=9003&kat=3 ( page no longer available )
- ↑ Sveriges Radio: Slutpläderingar i Arklöv-målet - Nyheter (Ekot) . Archived from the original on August 31, 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2018.