Trnopolje camp
Coordinates: 44 ° 55 ′ 24 ″ N , 16 ° 52 ′ 26 ″ E
The Trnopolje camp was established near the city of Prijedor , in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina , during the Bosnian War .
According to the indictment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), several hundred people are said to have been murdered in Trnopolje.
The camp, which was officially opened on May 30, 1992, was visited by international war correspondents in early August 1992. Their pictures of emaciated Muslim refugees behind a barbed wire fence went around the world and were seen as evidence of the existence of Serb concentration camps in Bosnia. After that, the camp was closed due to international pressure.
According to witnesses, mainly non-Serbs from the Prijedor area were brought into the camp .
literature
- Hajo Funke , Alexander Rhotert: Under Our Eyes: Ethnic Purity: The Politics of the Milosevic Regime and the Role of the West (= Political and Culture Series at the Department of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin . Volume 2 ). Hans Schiler, 1999, ISBN 978-3-86093-219-3 , Trnopolje, p. 157 f .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ indictment document number IT-00-39-I
- ↑ Kvočka et al. , File number IT-98-30-I (PDF) Publication of the Hague War Crimes Tribunal
- ↑ Trnopolje ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Fontbonne University, undated
