Vilina Vlas
Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′ 58 ″ N , 19 ° 17 ′ 18 ″ E
Vilina Vlas is a hotel about four kilometers northeast of Višegrad ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ) that was used as an internment camp during the Bosnian War . It was used to intern and rape female Bosniaks . The inmates were beaten, tortured and murdered by Serbian guards.
After the war, Vilina Vlas was reopened as a tourist facility.
camp
From the end of April 1992, Bosniaks were held by the Uzice Corps in the hotel . The camp played a significant role in the ethnic cleansing of the non-Serb population in the region. The hotel was also used as a warehouse brothel . Bosniak women and girls, including many under the age of 14 , were brought to the camp by police officers and members of the Beli Orlovi paramilitary group to be raped.
Milan Lukić , the leader of a local group of paramilitaries known as the White Eagles, Avengers or Wolves, set up his headquarters in Vilina Vlas. The group, which had ties to the local police and Serbian military units , played an important role in the ethnic cleansing of Višegrad and committed numerous crimes including murder, rape, torture, beatings, looting and property destruction.
The rapes in the Višegrad region were allegedly carried out systematically. To the Commission of Experts of the reports United Nations and to the Security Council (the Council Resolution 780 (1992) set up under the Commission of the Security Council of the Bassiouni Commission expert commission of the United Nations), according to the victims were rounded up and to places like Vilina Vlas transported . The Višegrad Hotel was apparently used for the purpose of imprisonment and rape.
A report to the Bassiouni Commission estimated that around 200 women, mostly Bosniaks, were imprisoned and sexually abused in Vilina Vlas. The hotel was known as a place where only young, beautiful women were imprisoned. According to the Bassiouni Commission, it was alleged that women brought to this camp were selected to bear " Chetnik children".
It was alleged that younger girls were taken to the hotel while older women were taken to other locations such as occupied or abandoned houses and raped. The number of reports was taken as reasonable confirmation that a large number of rapes had actually taken place at the hotel.
The internees were repeatedly raped and beaten with batons.
Some women were killed while others took their own lives as a result of the mental health problems caused by the rape .
Only a handful of female prisoners survived, less than ten according to the Association of Women Victims of War, an organization that works with female survivors and works to persecute the perpetrators. The bodies of the victims were not found and are said to have been buried in secret locations.
During the Sjeverin massacre , sixteen Bosniaks were kidnapped by Milan Lukić on a trip from Serbia to Bosnia and brought to Vilina Vlas, where they were tortured and murdered. The camp was eventually closed when its existence outside Bosnia became known and the surviving prisoners were handed over to an unknown fate.
consequences
Milan Lukić was found guilty of holding and executing inmates in the camp. He was not charged with rape, although it was well documented. The President of the Association of Women Victims of War, Bakira Hasečić , has severely criticized the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague for not having been charged with rapes. One survivor reported that Lukić raped her several times while she was trapped in the hotel. Oliver Krsmanović , a guard of the camp, was charged with rape and serious sexual abuse of female inmates in Vilina Vlas and with the massacre of 70 Bosniaks in the village of Bikavac . Police chief Risto Perišić allegedly participated in the torture, rape and execution of prisoners in Vilina Vlas. The hotel director Dusko Andrić is also said to be one of the rapists.
Individual evidence
- ↑ oe1.orf.at: Don't stop starting. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Archived copy . Archived from the original on February 3, 2007. Retrieved January 2, 2007.
- ↑ Rehabilitacioni Center "Vilina Vlas". Retrieved May 31, 2020 (Serbian).
- ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on April 27, 2009. Retrieved April 21, 2009.
- ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on April 27, 2009. Retrieved April 21, 2009.
- ↑ Archived copy .
- ↑ a b c d Visegrad rape victims say their cries go unheard . In: Balkan Investigative Reporting Network , October 20, 2006. Archived from the original on June 18, 2009.
- ↑ https://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/bosnia-and-herzegovina-no-justice-rape-victims-20090721
- ↑ Serbs sentenced for war crimes . In: BBC News , September 30, 2003. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
- ^ Prosecutor v. Milan Lukic and Sredoje Lukic . International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. July 20, 2009.
- ^ Indictment against Oliver Krsmanovic Confirmed . In: Balkan Investigative Reporting Network , November 22, 2011.
- ↑ a b War Criminals in Bosnia's Republika Srpska: Who are the People in Your Neighborhood? . In: International Crisis Group , November 2, 2000. Archived from the original on June 26, 2014.