Uzamnica camp

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Uzamnica camp

The Uzamnica camp was an internment camp in Višegrad operated during the Bosnian War . It was used by the Serbian armed forces to intern mainly Bosniaks .

history

Many of the Bosniaks who were not killed in the Višegrad massacres were interned in various locations in the city, including the former JNA barracks in Uzamnica, five kilometers from Višegrad.

Women were raped by Serbian soldiers, who beat and terrorized non-Serb civilians. Every day there was widespread looting and destruction of non-Serbian houses and the city's two mosques were destroyed.

Prisoners interned in the Uzamnica camp were exposed to inhumane conditions. Many were tortured regularly. Serb paramilitaries were allowed into the camp to beat and torture the prisoners at will. As a result of these attacks, many of the victims suffered serious and permanent injuries. The guards called the prisoners "dirty gypsies" that they "want to kill".

Many of the prisoners were used for hard labor.

According to the survivors interviewed by Ed Vulliamy , pork was the only food available to the mostly Muslim prisoners . Some of these inmates were held in this camp for over two years.

consequences

The investigation showed that both Milan Lukić and Sredoje Lukić regularly "visited" the camp. In the camp, both Milan Lukić and Sredoje Lukić kicked and hit the prisoners violently and repeatedly with their fists, batons, sticks and rifle butts. Several victims testified before the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) about the brutal beatings and the serious and permanent injuries they had suffered and the suffering they had suffered.

Milan Lukić was found guilty of involvement in human rights abuses in ten cases of crimes against humanity and nine cases of violations of the laws of war, including murder , torture , looting and damage to property . He was sentenced to life imprisonment on July 20, 2009 .

The Trial Chamber found Sredoje Lukić guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 30 years in prison.

Individual evidence

↑ THE PROSECUTOR OF THE TRIBUNAL AGAINST MITAR VASILJEVIC. THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, pp. 1–2 , accessed on May 5, 2020 (English).
↑ ^a ^b LEXIS-NEXIS® Academic Universe Document. August 10, 2007, accessed May 5, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b THE PROSECUTOR OF THE TRIBUNAL AGAINST MITAR VASILJEVIC. THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, p. 2 , accessed on May 5, 2020 (English).
↑ THE PROSECUTOR OF THE TRIBUNAL AGAINST MITAR VASILJEVIC. THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, pp. 5–6 , accessed on May 5, 2020 (English).
↑ THE PROSECUTOR OF THE TRIBUNAL AGAINST MITAR VASILJEVIC. THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, p. 6 , accessed on May 5, 2020 (English).

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