Keraterm camp
Coordinates: 44 ° 58 ′ 52 ″ N , 16 ° 45 ′ 14 ″ E
The detention camp Keraterm was during the Bosnian war on the grounds of the brick factory of the same name, also known as ceramic factory called, on the eastern outskirts of Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina .
The camp was set up in 1992 by the leadership of the Republika Srpska (RS) to forcibly detain captured Bosniaks and Croats . According to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), over 3,000 people were held in Keraterm and around 300 were murdered there .
According to the ICTY indictment, the prisoners were subjected to physical violence, degradation and inhuman abuse, among other things. Mock shootings were also the order of the day. Torture by brutal beatings was perpetrated daily. The prison guards used rubber hoses, baseball bats, metal bars, wooden slats, harnesses, rifle butts and knives. Numerous people were beaten to death with it.
According to the statements of former camp inmates, the people were held in four warehouses of the former ceramic factory. Only male prisoners between the ages of 15 and 60 were held. Bosniak women were first brought to the camp, raped and then taken to the Omarska camp. About 85 percent of the prisoners were Bosniaks and 15 percent Croatians.
Current developments
Some of those responsible for the Republika Srpska have since been charged by the ICTY with genocide and crimes against humanity . Predrag Banović was sentenced to eight years in prison by the ICTY, and Duško Sikirica , a former camp commandant, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for crimes against humanity.